I'm trying to remember off the top of my head whether Pope Sylvester II and the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III came after Charlemagne.... uhh they did. Look my grasp of history isn't perfect, but I believe that France remained a member of the Roman church after Charlemagne departed.. uhhhhhm, the Pope I just mentioned was the first French Pope, who crowned the first Emperor since Charlemagne, the German Otto I also mentioned.
Quote from: Elegiac on May 15, 2016, 01:42:03 AMI'm trying to remember off the top of my head whether Pope Sylvester II and the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III came after Charlemagne.... uhh they did. Look my grasp of history isn't perfect, but I believe that France remained a member of the Roman church after Charlemagne departed.. uhhhhhm, the Pope I just mentioned was the first French Pope, who crowned the first Emperor since Charlemagne, the German Otto I also mentioned.Sooooo is that a... yes?
After Charlemagne died in 814, the imperial crown was disputed among the Carolingian rulers of Western Francia and Eastern Francia, with first the western king (Charles the Bald) and then the eastern (Charles the Fat) attaining the prize.[citation needed] After the death of Charles the Fat in 888, however, the Carolingian Empire broke apart, and was never restored. According to Regino of Prüm, the parts of the realm "spewed forth kinglets", and each part elected a kinglet "from its own bowels".[41] After the death of Charles the Fat, those crowned emperor by the pope controlled only territories in Italy.[citation needed] The last such emperor was Berengar I of Italy, who died in 924.
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