Louis VII, pledged his personal participation, as did the Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad Ill, with his German contingents. Propaganda and ecclesiastical backing was provided by the pope, Eugenius III, and ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

A bust of a Roman emperor carved 1,800 years ago, bought by a Scottish laird before being used as a garden ornament has sold for £162,000. The vendors had no idea the 2ft tall marble piece ...

Likewise the prominent part played by the stories of popes Leo I, III and IV in Raphael’s ... to cement the place of a western European Holy Roman Emperor. Leo’s coronation of Charlemagne ...

Fast forward a few centuries to Leo III, who pulled off one of the most ... he placed a crown on the head of Charlemagne and declared him Holy Roman Emperor. In doing so, Leo revived the Western ...

Soon after becoming pope, Leo III was attacked by supporters of ... When Charlemagne traveled to Rome in 800, the pope declared him the Holy Roman Emperor, giving him “equal status with the ...

Otto I the Holy Roman ... Pope Leo III, born in Italy, was pope from 795 to 816 A.D. He was the 96th pope. During his 20-year papacy, Leo III crowned a Roman Emperor, setting a legal precedent ...