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re: Who are your favorite monarchs ?

Posted on 12/24/19 at 8:26 pm to
Posted by blueboy
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Posted on 12/24/19 at 8:26 pm to
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Some say that he was only a puppet of the popes. Who knows?

I do. The pope tried to con him with the Donation of Constantine, as he did Charles' father, Pepin, and Charles told the pope to get fricked.
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Posted on 12/24/19 at 9:42 pm to
The relationship between the Pope and Charlemagne was mutually beneficial to both. Both had a common enemy in the Lombards, The Bulgars had cut the Eastern Romans off from supporting the Papacy, along with the issue of iconoclasm and the accession of Irene as Empress.
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