HIST 1000 Lecture 15: History 1000 ch 15
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St boniface petitioned the pope to transfer the kingdom of the franks to pepin 3rd in 750. Pope plays the authority of transferring pepin 3rd from mayor to king. Meanwhile, king aistulf (749-756) lombards took ravenna and drove byzantines out of north. Rome and the papacy were in danger of lombard domination. Pope stephen 2nd (752-757) went to france and called on pepin 3rd to. Ght the lombards and secure rome for the papacy. (he again, crowns and anoints pepin 3rd and his family by his own hand to emphasize the franco-papal alliance). Pepin 3rd defeats lombards 755-756 and gave ravenna a strip of former byzantine territory to the papacy the papal states continued to exist till 1870. Papal states: thin strip of land in the center of italy, pope has political and spiritual leadership of this. The carolingians were the protectors of the papacy.
