The historian of Italy and her invaders begins with the Frankish mayors of the palace, Pippin of Heristal, Charles Martel and Pippin the king, because Charlemagne was the last term in a rising series. He then follows the fall of the Lombard kingdom, the Saxon wars, the imperial coronation and Charles’s government and diplomacy.
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