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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ecomplete independence. As he had married a daughter of Desiderius, he was a brother-in-law of Adelchis, to whom, on the other side of the Alps, Thassilo, Duke of Bavaria, stood in the same relation. Since the Byzantines, too, still retained part of their former possessions in Lower Italy, there centred in the south all the efforts which were made to weaken or destroy the Frankish power in the Italian peninsula. An attempt of Charlemagne to regulate thesematters in concert with the Byzantine empire probably had to begiven up as impracticable. At all events, while he was in Italy the engagement of his daughter Rotrud to the young emperor Constantine IL, the son of the Athenian Irene (who was then empress of the East, and because she favored the worship of images had been forced to seek the friendship of Rome and of Charlemagne), was broken. A rupture with Byzantium was therefore impending. Prince Adel-chis had certainly helped to bring about this hostile turn of aftairs; CAEOLINGIAN ART. 51
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Fig. 4. — Keliquar\, in the fonii of a casket, with enamel and ghiss paste ornaiueui mounted in goUl. Carolingian work; eighth century. Baptismal bowl of Duke Widukind. African jasper, mounted with gilded bronze. Inscription in enamelled letters: Munere tarn claro nosdidat Africa raro. Said to have been found in the grave of Wichikind. These two objects were, according to tradition, baptismal gifts made by Charlemagne to Widukind. and were by the latter bestowed upon the house of St. Dionysius at Enger, near Herford (Westphalia). (Berlin.) 52 CHARLEMAGNE AS KING. and he no doubt expected, in case of success, to reap the lions share of the profit. Unfortunately for him, Arichis died in the summerof 787. His son Grimoald, to whom Charlemagne, at the wish ofthe Beneventines, gave the ducal authority, gave up his fathers plans, and at first remained loyal to the king of the Franks. When,in 788, Adelchis and his Byzantine allies tried the fortune of arms, Grimoald, with the aid of Duke Hildeb

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