Donation of Constantine
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The Donation of Constantine is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire
A 13th-century fresco of Sylvester I and Constantine the Great, showing the purported Donation (Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome)
A 9th-century copy of the Donation of Constantine as part of the False Decretals by Pseudo-Isidore. The heading in red reads Epistola Constantini Imperatoris ad Silvestrum Papam or "Letter of Emperor Constantine to Pope Sylvester".
Workshop of Raphael, The Donation of Constantine. Stanze di Raffaello, Vatican City
Donation of Pepin
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The Donation of Pepin, or Donation of Pippin, was the transfer of Frankish territory in Central Italy to Pope Stephen II made by Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, in 756. Credited with "effectively
Donation of Constantine
…earliest known allusion to the Donation is in a letter of 778, in which Pope Hadrian I exhorts Charlemagne – whose father, Pepin the Short, had made the Donation of Pepin granting the Popes sovereignty over the Papal States – to follow Constantine's example and endow the Roman Catholic church. Otto III's chancery denied…
Fresco by a painter from the school of Giovan Battista Ricci, depicting the abbot St. Fulrad giving Pepin's written guarantee to Pope Stephen II.
Carolingian coin of Pepin the Short, dating from 754/55 to 768.
A follis coin of King Aistulf, dating from 749 to 756.