Grifo (noble)
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Grifo, Duke of Maine (726–753) was the son of the Frankish
major domo Charles Martel and his second wife Swanachild
.
After the death of Charles Martel, power may well have been intended to be divided among Grifo and his half-brothers
Carloman. Grifo, who was considered illegitimate by Pepin and Carloman, was besieged in Laon by his half-brothers, captured, and imprisoned in a monastery
.
On his escape in 747, his maternal great-uncle Duke
Pepin III
in 751.