Identifier: historyofrome00myer (find matches)
Title: A history of Rome
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tion will illustrate the importantand germinal character of the period. We shall tell how the Mayorsof the Palace of the Merovingian princes became the actual kings ofthe Franks; how, through the liberality of the Frankish kings, thepopes laid the foundations of their temporal sovereignty; and howCharlemagne restored the Roman Empire in the West, and through-out its extended limits, in the fusion of things Roman and of thingsGermanic, laid the basis of modern civilization. 254. How Duke Pippin became King of the Franks (751 a.d.).Charles Martel, who saved the Christian civilization of westernEurope on the field of Tours, although the real head of the Frankishnation, was nominally only an officer of the Merovingian court(sect. 205). He died without ever having borne the title of king,notwithstanding he had exercised all the authority of that office. But Charless son, Pippin III, aspired to the regal title and honors.He resolved to depose his titular master and to make himself king. 222
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