Decades later, in 800, Pippin the son of Charlemagne was crowned the emperor of the Pope, continuing to expand the principle of delegitimising the nominal rights of Byzantine Emperor in the Italian peninsula (which was actually collected only in Apulia and Calabria) and Roman lands – ancient Gaul, including Iberia Charlemagne outposts established in Marca Hispanica on the other side of the Pyrenees, a Christian land that they now call Catalonia. In short, although the Byzantine emperors claimed authority over all the former lands of the Roman Empire, as a legitimate Roman Emperor, this was simply unrealistic. Rabbit that what I do I read book and I know things mug. Most of the old lands of the Western Roman Empire were under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty, the Byzantine emperors were almost powerless in the West since the sixth century, because of Charlemagne, a politician he wanted to avoid conflict with the Constantinople court.
