Pippin II
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Pippin II (born c. ad 823—died after 864, Senlis, France) was the Carolingian king of Aquitaine.
The son of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838), he was forced to fight for his inheritance. He gained the throne about 845 after defeating King Charles II the Bald, who had received authority over Aquitaine from Louis the Pious. War soon broke out again, however, and Charles slowly advanced through Aquitaine. Pippin took refuge with Sancho, duke of the Gascons, but in 852 was handed over to Charles, tonsured, and relegated to a monastery. Escaping in 854, he renewed the struggle, but in 859 the Aquitanians began to abandon him. Thereafter on the defensive and a wanderer, he joined with a band of Viking raiders and attacked Toulouse in 864. Captured soon afterward, he died during imprisonment at Senlis.