Frankish Papacy
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In the history of the papacy, the Frankish Papacy was a period marked by a shifting of influence from the Byzantine Empire to that of the kings of the Franks. Pepin the Short, Charlemagne, and Louis t
The "Donation of Pepin" (756): Pepin the Short grants the territories of Ravenna to Pope Stephen II.
Charlemagne (left) conquered the Lombard capital of Pavia during the reign of Pope Adrian I (right).
Coronation of Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious depicted kneeling before Pope Paschal I in 822
Pepin the Short
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Pepin the Short was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768. He was the first Carolingian to become king.
Pepin the Younger, miniature, Anonymi chronica imperatorum, c. 1112–1114
Coronation in 751 of Pepin by Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz
Arab and Berber Muslim troops retreating from Narbonne after the Frankish conquest of Septimania in 759. Illustration by Émile Bayard, 1880.
Allegoric depiction of Pepin