Charlemagne (748–814) ruled a vast empire ... from Henry III’s brother, Richard Earl of Cornwall who is known to have given ...

Charlemagne’s devotion to Christianity—and his protection of the popes—was recognized on Christmas Day 800, when Pope Leo III crowned ... years—the Holy Roman Empire.

Comparison between Charlemagne’s burial shroud (left) and Henry III silk bag (right ... recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Roman Empire, making him the first Holy Roman ...

the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the Abbey’s collection and was used in 1267 during the reign of Henry III, shares a pattern and weaver with Charlemagne’s burial shroud.

But they disappeared and Richard III, Edward IV ... with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared himself ...

Upon the death of his cousin Otto III in 1002, Henry succeeded him as king. Pope Benedict VIII crowned him Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1014. During his reign, Henry shared his faith by ...