Pippin

Pippin, often also spelt Pepin, was the name of several important figures in the Carolingian family that ruled what is now France in the Middle Ages:\n* Pippin of Landen\n* Pippin of Herstal\n* Pippin III (father of Charlemagne)\n* Pippin the Hunchback (son of Charlemagne)\n* Pippin of Italy (son of Charlemagne)\n* Pippin of Aquitaine (grandson of Charlemagne, son of Louis the Pious) Pippin is also:

• the nickname of Peregrin Took in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings\n* A type of apple\n* The protagonist in the novel The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck.\n* The title of a Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz.\n* The title of a 1972 film, directed by Bob Fosse

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