“Bishops should despise this world and inspire others by their example to seek after heavenly things. But now you are corrupted by ambition beyond all the rest of mankind; and one of them not content with holding the first episcopal see in Germany has dared without my approval to claim my golden sceptre, which I carry to signify my royal will, in order that he might use it as his pastoral staff.”

—  Charlemagne

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

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King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor 748–814

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