742

This page relates to the year 742 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • Hunald, duke of Aquitaine revolts. He is overcome by Pépin the Brief and Carloman with Bourges then with the castle of Loches which is destroyed. Pip and Carloman go then on the revolted Alamans and subject them.
  • the Slaves fight the Francs with the Bavarois.
  • a first Synode on German ground is held in the presence of Boniface.
    • Pip the Brief and Carloman undertake the reform of the franque Church by a series of Capitulaire S: It is necessary that there is a bishop in each city and that all the clergy of its diocese obeys to him; it is not necessary that the monks and the nuns leave the monasteries without authorization; it is necessary that the richness withdrawn from the Church are restored to him; it is necessary that the adulterous deacons and priests and fornicators are degraded and obliged to make penitence. The priests are held to go to the annual synods of évêché. The métropolites are restored in their functions.

  • August: Treaty of Tarnished between the pope Zacharie and the king of the Lombards Luitprand.
  • October 1st: Chrodegang, former chancellor of Charles Martel is named bishop of Metz (fine in 766). To advise Pip the Brief. Reformer, it enacts a rule for the secular clergy.

Births in 742

Death in 742

  • Berthe de Neustrie, abbess founder of the Abbey of Prüm.

  • Holy Erkembode

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