Lupo III Centule (
Basque: ''Otsoa Wasco'',
French
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: ''Loup Centulle'',
Gascon: ''Lop Centullo'',
Latin: ''Lupus Centullus'',
Spanish: ''Lope'' or ''Lobo Centulo'',
Catalan: ''Llop Centoll'') (died ca. 820) was the
Duke of Gascony briefly from 818 until his deposition by
Pepin I of Aquitaine
Pepin I or Pepin I of Aquitaine (French: ''Pépin''; 797 – 13 December 838) was King of Aquitaine and Duke of Maine.
Pepin was the second son of Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye. When his father assigned t ...
in 819. He was either a son of
García I or of Centule, a brother of
Sancho I.
Lupo was a Gascon rebel against the authority of Pepin in
Aquitaine. In 818, the death of García left a
power vacuum in Gascony which Lupo attempted to fill. Pepin responded quickly, however, and entered Gascony, emanating a diploma at
Castillon-sur-Dordogne
Castillon-la-Bataille (; oc, Castilhon de la Batalha) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Castillon station has rail connections to Bordeaux, Bergerac and Sarlat-la-Canéda.
This area was the site ...
the next year. He formally deposed Lupo and sent
Berengar of Toulouse and
Guerin of Auvergne
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into the region to dislodge him from power. He was replaced by
Aznar Sánchez, who assumed power in
Aragon
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as well.
Sources
*Higounet, Charles. ''Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age''. Bordeaux, 1963.
*Lewis, Archibald R. ''The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050''. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965.
*
Zurita, Gerónimo. ''Anales de la Corona de Aragón I''. Edited by Antonio Ubieto Arteta and Desamparados Pérez Soler. Valencia: 1967.
Basque people
Dukes of Gascony
820 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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