... appropriation of the vast Avar treasure" After attacking the Avar camp known as 'The Ring' Charlemagne amassed a huge wealth and, as Einhard writes, it turned the Franks "from paupers into midases." With this treasure Charlemagne was able to fund further military campaigns, as well ... secure the loyalty of the counts and barons that ruled the separate regions, without this they would rebel and deny Charlemagne's over-lordship. Einhard and Becher both underplay the role of the church during the Saxon Wars; instead they view it as a tool of government by which ... essentially on wh...

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... the most influential political leader of Western Europe in the early medieval period, and he proclaimed to love the Church of St. Peter the Apostle and was a devoted catholic (Blackboard, Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne, pg. 56). Charlemagne used support from the Church in the division of sub-districts headed by nobles. He converted to Catholicism at a very early point in ... ...

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