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In December 795 pope Hadrian I died.1 He had enjoyed a lengthy pontificate, which had coincided with much of Charles’s reign over the Franks. According to Einhard, the king regarded the dead pontiff as a friend, even though their aspirations and policies had rarely coincided.2 Following the overthrow of the Lombard kingdom, Charles had not restored papal rule over all the territories that the Church of Rome claimed, nor had Hadrian seen the reinstatement of icon veneration in Byzantium as the resurrection of heresy, in the way that the Frankish Council of Frankfurt had wished to regard it. Even so, relations between king and pope, as evidenced in the correspondence between them preserved in the collection known as the Codex Carolinus, were normally good, and Hadrian’s standing in Rome had been generally secure and free from any hint of scandal.3 The same could not be said of his successor, Leo III (795–816).
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Collins, R. (1998). The Imperial Coronation of 800, and its Aftermath. In: Charlemagne. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26924-2_9
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