Tilpin

Tilpin, Latin Tilpinus (died 794 or 800), also called Tulpin,[1] a name later corrupted as Turpin, was the bishop of Reims from about 748 until his death.

According to Hincmar, the later archbishop of Reims, Tilpin occupied himself in securing the restoration of the rights and properties of his church, the revenues and prestige of which had been impaired under the rule of the more martial Milo.

Another letter, sent by Hincmar to King Louis the Younger, claims that Tilpin granted the villa of Douzy to Charlemagne as a precarium in exchange for the nona et decima and twelve pounds of silver annually.

[6] Tilpin died in 794, if the evidence of a diploma alluded to by Jean Mabillon may be trusted, although it has been stated that this event took place on 2 September 800.

The Historia de vita Caroli magni et Rolandi, attributed to Tilpin, was declared authentic in 1122 by Pope Callixtus II.

According to Flodoard, Charles Martel drove Archbishop Rigobert from his office and replaced him with a warrior clerk named Milo, afterwards also bishop of Trier.

Flodoard also represents Milo as discharging a mission among the Vascones (the ancestors of the Basques), the same people credited with ambushing the rearguard of Charlemagne's army and killing Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778.