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The coronation of Charlemagne — On 25 December 800, Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor
A pope threatened by the Roman aristocracy set on a Frankish king’s head an imperial crown long vanished. The Eastern Empire, occupied elsewhere, could not object. The West thus gave itself an emperor it no longer had, and the Church a protector. (Editorial synthesis)
The coronation of Charlemagne took place on 25 December 800 (Julian calendar). (source: Larousse)
The coronation of Charlemagne took place in Rome. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The coronation of Charlemagne ended in the revival of the empire in Latin Europe. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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