Carolingian Vs Charlemagnes

The Carolingians further ingratiated themselves with the Church by becoming the protectors of Rome, and specifically, the Pope. The Pope did not believe that his protector, the Emperor of Constantinople, would be able to protect him from the invading Lombard armies, so he turned to another Germanic kingdom, who he hoped, could stop the Lombards. Both Pippin and his son Charlemagne warred against the Lombards for significant portions of their reigns, however, Charlemagne finally defeated them in 774. War and the Church went hand-in-hand for the Carolingians with many of their wars having a religious undertone. For instance, the wars in Saxony and Bavaria started as a missionary war, the war against the Lombards, for the Pope, and later wars in Germany because of sacrilegious events.

Chrodegang continued with the reforming movement of the Church and placed an exceptionally high amount of work towards fixing the monasteries. Boniface earlier, remarked upon the sheer lack of knowledge and understanding of Latin in the monasteries. Chrodegang placed the Rule upon the Frankish monasteries which would guide them in their everyday lives, and later Louis the Pious and Benedict of Anniane would revise and live by. What Chrodegang set into practice finally came into fruition with the reign of Louis the Pious in 814. All the hard work that Boniface, Carloman, Pippin, and Chrodegang did, still unraveled in 833 with the deposition and public penance of Louis the Pious. The Church and Lothar paired together to usurp power from Louis, however, Lothar used the Church to his ends and then turned away from