Charlemagne's Challenges

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2. Charlemagne faced a lot of challenges while governing his empire. Charlemagne was governing society by a form of government called a warrior aristocracy. He had nobles: dukes and counts at the top with him of the hierarchy pyramid. He also used bishops as administrators. Charlemagne’s tried to overcome limits of the Germanic Kingship. In which he was trying to get the renewal of the title of Roman Emperor.
One of the biggest challenges that Charlemagne faced was that he was always at war; he had no reason to go to war all the time also. He was also named as emperor by pope, in whom by the pope crowning him, this probably meant the pope, had more power than him in government. After Charlemagne’s death, his kingdom was split between his grandsons.

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