When the Pope traveled to Francia, Pepin sent his six-year-old son, Charlemagne, to meet the Pope en route and escort him. When Charlemagne was thirteen, his father took him on his first military campaign; thereafter, Charlemagne commonly participated in his father’s campaigns. In the early 760s, while Charlemagne was in his teens, Pepin put a monastery and some unnamed counties under Charlemagne’s jurisdiction, and also had Charlemagne confirm a charter. These experiences prepared Charlemagne for what he would have to do one day as a king.