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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
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§255) TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPES 223 Not deeming it wise, however, to do this without the sanction of thePope, he sent an embassy to represent to him the state of affairsand to solicit his advice. Mindful of recent favors that he had re-ceived at the hands of Pippin, the Pope gave his approval to theproposed scheme by replying that it seemed altogether reasonablethat the one who was king in reality should be king also in name.This was sufficient. Childeric — such was the name of the Mero-vingian king — was straightway deposed, and Pippin, whose owndeeds together with those of his illustrious father had done so muchfor the Frankish nation and for Christendom, was crowned king ofthe Franks (751 a. d.), and thus became the first of the Carolingianline, the name of his illustrious son Charles (Charlemagne) givingname to the house. 255. Pippin Helps to Establish the Temporal Power of the Popes(756 a.d.). In the year 754 a.d. Pope Stephen II, troubled by theking of the Lombards, besou

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