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The coronation of Charlemagne in St Peter’s, Rome, painted by Jean Fouquet for the Grandes Chroniques de France, about 1455-60.Image: Jean Fouquet, Tours · Public domainpolitics · Europe
Charlemagne is crowned emperor in Rome
At Christmas Mass in St Peter’s, Rome, in 800, Pope Leo III placed a crown on the head of Charlemagne, King of the Franks, as he rose from prayer, and the congregation hailed him as emperor. For the first time since the fifth century there was an emperor in the West. Leo had been attacked by enemies in Rome the year before and had fled to Charlemagne for protection. The new title bound the papacy and the Frankish kings together and laid the ground for what became the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted in one form or another until 1806.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Holy Roman Empire, the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor ↗
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