What was a paladin?
Was it some kind of elite knight?
What was a paladin?
Lucas Bailey
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Anthony Miller
>The paladins (Latin: Palatine; "servant, or government official"), sometimes known as the Twelve Peers, were the foremost warriors of Charlemagne's court, according to the literary cycle known as the Matter of France.
Reputedly, Charlemagne grandfather Charles Martel defeated mounted saracens with footsoldiers and used the capture stirrup and horses to create the first knights
Adrian Rodriguez
Charlemagne's buttbuddies
Blake Long
Charlemagne didn't exist. He was just a precedent to give Otto I the right to rule as an Emporer independent of already sitting Byzantine Roman Emporer
Charles Cox
Paladins are legendary companions/bodyguard of Charlemagne described in some stories. They're usually the knightly ideal, powerful Christian warriors who are also virtuous. Sometimes the term is applied to the Arthurian Knights of the Round Table.
Paladin was also a medieval title used to describe various positions. Palatine is an alternative spelling, pretty much, and refered to some high-ranking court officials, often second to the king. The origin is with the Palatine guard of Roman Emperor, Palatine being the hill where the Emperor lived.
Basically royal bodyguards and D&D or whoever made an RPG class of holy warriors from them.
William Garcia
>It's one of those people who believes the early middle ages didn't exist
There's records of Charlemagne and the Carolingians as whole in Abbasid sources. Embassies and gifts were regularly exchanged.
Angel Scott
We also have three hundred years of Byzantine sources. Why would they collaborate with a conspiracy which undermines their own legitimacy?
Charles Thomas
>There's records of Charlemagne and the Carolingians as whole in Abbasid sources
there are also record of prestor John being king of Abbissinia and modern "history" says he's just a myth.
that's before you consider the sheer lack of architectural/evidence of habitation development between the 6th through 9th centuries.
oh lets not foget how nany documents have turned out to be forged in the 14th century when they were claimed to be from the "dark ages"
get real, the dark ages are a result of various chronologies being blended by Scaliger to make sense of Romanism ,and even Newton questions and wrote several volumes on the subject.
The history upheld gives Germanic Chiefs the right to claim the right to imperial rulership independent of the Emporer in Byzantium same way Caesar claimed lineage from Aeneas and Venus.
Thats why theres fuck all coinage minted by these so called "do nothing kings"
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Otto I needed a good reason to claim power, the pope gave him a way to do it as Pontifex Maximus since most of the record were held by the monks and Bishops since papyrus became low supply and vauable in the west after Arabs took Egypt.
Zachary Watson
>three hundred years of Byzantine sources.
source them.
because the 300 year gap is pervasive from several angles not just at charlemagne
Jason Torres
>Why would they collaborate with a conspiracy
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the papacy had a good reason to collaborate as they were illegitimate powers also and needed a means to claim temporal authority themselves..