 One of the earliest, most contemporary descriptions of Pepin is found in the "Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium", an ecclesiastical history of the see of Metz written by Paul the Deacon around 785.Paul often digresses into broader themes of Carolingian history, and some historians (like Walter Goffart) read a great deal about the plight of Pepin into the supposedly allegorical histories that Paul provides of Charlemagne's ancestors.Paul also touches on Pepin directly, at least occasionally