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Suppose some important Frankish nobles dispute King Pippin III's son Karl (better known as Charlemagne) as a successor to the throne after his death in 768, possibly due to concerns that he is/was a bastard child (the church only recognised Pippin and Bertrada's marriage in 749, either 2 or 7 years after Karl's birth, but before his brother Karloman). The nobles then head off to Fontanelle monastery and find the 20-something year old Theuderic, son of the deposed Merovingian *ruler* (only in name) Childeric III, and attempt to install him as ruler, either over all of Karl's bit of Francia, or maybe just the Merovingian power base in Neustria.

Regardless of what Theuderic might do after this restoration, is this scenario plausible, or would it go under ASB? How important is 20 years to a deposed dynasty?

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