![]() 756-774) to marry the teenage Hildegard (future mother of Louis the Pious, r. In 770, Charlemagne married and then repudiated a Lombard princess, daughter of the king Desiderius (r. Pepin accepted the stipulation of the Donation of Constantine his son would not.Ĭharlemagne marched on Aquitaine and defeated the rebels, also subduing neighboring Gascony, while Carloman refused to participate in any of it. The document was a forgery - and there is no evidence that Constantine ever made any such statement in any way - but there was no way Pepin could have known that and, being illiterate, he had little choice but to believe whatever the clergy told him was on the paper they waved in front of his face. The papacy, for their part, hoped to control Pepin and his successors and claimed authority over the Frankish crown by virtue of a document known as the Donation of Constantine, allegedly drawn up by the first Christian Roman emperor Constantine I himself, stating that a Christian monarch gave his rule up voluntarily to the papacy and the pope then graciously handed it back.Īccording to the document, the Church was actually the power behind every throne and could take that power as easily as it had been given. ![]() Among his earliest acts as king, Pepin defeated the Lombards and donated a significant amount of their land to the papacy (a grant known as the “Donation of Pepin”). Pepin was crowned King of the Franks in 751 and, in keeping with royal precedent, named his two sons as his successors. ![]()
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