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1. Charlemagne

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   Imperial Coronation (800 CE)
   On Christmas Day in 800 CE, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) while he was attending Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome [4]. This event is historically significant as it symbolically reconstituted the Western Roman Imperial title after a dormancy of over three centuries. The ideological justification for this act rested on the premise that Charlemagne’s perceived moral and military authority superseded the existing, though declining, authority of the Byzantine Emperor in [Const…