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Charlemagne is one of a handful of kings who gets awarded the post-nominal accolade “the Great.” His early life remains mysterious and the stories are a
by rzzzwilson 9y ago
Charlemagne is one of a handful of kings who gets awarded
the post-nominal accolade “the Great.” His early life
remains mysterious and the stories are assembled from
various sources, but it seems he was born around 742 B.C.
So, Charlemagne was born around 742 B.C.? Doubt it!
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- voyager2 9y ago"Charlemagne marked it by giving Leo one of the great medieval relics as a thank you—the Holy Prepuce, better known as Jesus’ foreskin." Not unless he had a time machine.
- frandroid 9y ago> but it seems he was born around 742 B.C.
- corpMaverick 9y agoSeems like they fixed it.
- gumby 9y agoMakes sense: since he noticed the calendar counting backwards he hung around to collect the holy foreskin and then waited until the Popes evolved and became powerful enough so he could give it to them. It’s the simplest explanation.
- QAPereo 9y agoOh it would be, but we’ve known for centuries that the holy prepuce was actually... According to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,[14][15] in the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[16] treatise entitled De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), claiming that the Holy Prepuce ascended, like Jesus himself, and was transformed into the rings of Saturn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce#Literary_allusions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce#Literary_allusi...
- macintux 9y agoWas he born at all? Maybe 742 B.C. has a grain of truth! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis