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Through efforts Charlemagne’s father, Pippin, that dynasty dominated majority Western Europe – strong position, Aquitaine problematic, continues his father, Charles Martel’s work.

Pippin worked on church reforms: insistence Roman liturgical forms, baptimsal and marriage rites, Sunday observance and uniform penance for ecclesiastical offences – local and international level of church organisation – dynasty drew on religious support, underlay consolidation of its rule.

The idea of primogeniture to designate an heir was as inconceivable as the eastern principle of establishing a co-emperor according to imperial traitin

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