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Originally Posted by Dowly
He himself preferred to use Karolus serenissimus Augustus a Deo coronatus magnus pacificus imperator Romanum gubernans imperium.
I say we should honor his wish.  |
That is not easy to teach to grade schoolers.
No matter what he calls himself he was a great man, bringing literacy to Europe, and one of the many cogs to making the modern world.
That coronation thing did not go well in 800, Napoleon himself remembered this and was sure to crown himself, rather than let the Pope do it.
His whole story is interesting, he pretty much invented crusades, because he loved smiting heretics and pagans.