My partner, a Chaucer scholar, keeps arguing that Charlemagne was the first Holy Roman Emperor, and I told him that isn’t right and he now keeps reading books by experts about it and then telling me that the authors are also wrong.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS
Wait...who was the first if it wasn’t Charlemagne?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @FlorenceHRS
honestly idk, the full phrase doesn't show up until like frederick barbarossa i think? charlemagne and otto were both just imperator augustus
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @FlorenceHRS
I think that I remember learning about this now but scrubbed it from my brain apparently
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