I should be apt to think that homages began to be established under King Pepin, which is the time I mentioned that several benefices were given in perpetuity, but I should not think thus without caution, and only upon a supposition that the authors of the ancient annals of the Franks were not ignorant pretenders, who in describing the fealty professed by Tassillon, Duke of Bavaria, to King Pepin, spoke according to the usages of their own time.
izan ere, garai horretan eman ziren onura asko betiko, esan dudanez; baina kontuz esango nuke hori, eta frankoen urtekarien egileak ezjakinak izan ez zirelakoan beti ere; alegia, Tassilon Bavariako dukeak Pepini egin zion omenaldia deskribatzean, beren garaian ikusten zituzten usadioen arabera mintzatzeko bezain ezjakinak.