pope leo iii built a european empire and was crowned emperor of the romans in 800.
pope leo iii built a european empire and was crowned emperor of the romans in 800.
who built a european empire and was crowned emperor of the romans in 800?
pope leo iii
according to adomnan of iona, the king of dal riata áedán mac gabráin came to the monastery at iona in 574 to be crowned as king by st columba. in 610, heraclius arranged a ceremony in constantinople where he was crowned and acclaimed emperor. in spain, the visigothic king sisenand was crowned in 631, and in 672, wamba was the first occidental king to be anointed as well, by the archbishop of toledo. in england, the anglo-saxon king eardwulf of northumbria was "consecrated and enthroned" in 796, and æthelstan was crowned and anointed in 925. these practices were nevertheless irregularly used or occurred some considerable time after the rulers had become kings, until their regular adoption by the carolingian dynasty in france. to legitimate his deposition of the last of the merovingian kings, pepin the short was twice crowned and anointed, at the beginning of his reign in 752, and for the first time by a pope in 754 in saint-denis. the anointing served as a reminder of the baptism of clovis i in reims in 496, where the ceremony was finally transferred in 816. his son charlemagne, who was crowned emperor in rome in 800, passed as well the ceremony to the holy roman empire, and this tradition acquired a newly constitutive function in england too, with the kings harold godwinson and william the conqueror immediately crowned in westminster abbey in 1066.
coronation
the first hohenstaufen king conrad iii was a grandson of the salian henry iv, holy roman emperor. (agnes, henry iv's daughter and henry v's sister, was the heiress of salian dynasty's lands: her first marriage produced the royal and imperial hohenstaufen dynasty and her second marriage the ducal babenberg potentates of duchy of austria which was elevated much due to such connections privilegium minus.)









































section::::salian kings and emperors.









































bullet::::- conrad ii 1024–1039, crowned emperor on 26 march 1027









































bullet::::- henry iii 1039–1056, crowned emperor on 25 december 1046









































bullet::::- henry iv 1056–1106, crowned emperor on 31 march 1084
salian dynasty