What was Pepin's cause of death?
Battle injury
Illness
Unknown
Assassination
Answer
Pepin the Short, the first Carolingian king of the Franks, died in 768 at the age of 54. Despite being documented to have died of natural causes, the exact nature of his illness has never been conclusively established. This, coupled with the absence of any known major epidemics during that period, has rendered further clarification elusive.
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