Greetings all,
On this day we reflect on Charlemagne being crowned "King of the Franks" on October 9th in 768 AD:
This began the path to the Holy Roman Empire. The Frankish Kingdom had retained much of it's Gallo-Roman
heritage, and had preserved the last Western Roman "rump state" in the
Kingdom of Soissons. Charlemagne's career would give some shadow of
Roman identity back to the West, although he was never recognized by the
Eastern Roman Empire in Constantinople.
Some
historians date the resulting Holy Roman Empire from 800 AD. As I type
this I realize that the Eastern Roman Empire lived with the Holy Roman
Empire longer than it did the Western Roman Empire as a separate entity.
Amazing!
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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