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Carloman is named as the father of Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, in the Vita Pippini ducis, and in the Genealogia regum Francorum as also being Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia for Theudebert II (Thibert or Théodebert), who reigned from 595-612.
However these sources were written in the eleventh and tenth centuries and can't be considered primary sources, and his existence is doubtful. Certainly he isn't mentioned in any list of the Mayors of Austrasia.
Many online genealogies name a number of different of people as the parents of Carloman, but there are no reliable sources for any of these options.
Although a date of birth of about 550 seems reasonable, given his son was born about 580, a death date of 645 must be considered to be highly unlikely. The average life expectancy of adult males during the later Carolingian period was about 40-50 years, and the average age of the Merovingian kings was 34 years
Given the similarity of
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