>Charlemagne wanted to marry Irene of Athens >Irene "seriously

>Franks
>Roman

>>3064917
Carolingian gavalkind would have balkanized all of Europe and Asia minor, it was for the best.

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>>3064917
>Christian
>Roman
Pick one and only one.

>>3064917
Imagine the sex

>>3064917
>Marrying LARPer descendant of people who destroyed the real Roman empire

>>3065007
>a roman-larping frank marrying a roman-larping greek
what's the problem

>>3064968


Na, both.

>>3064991
Okay

>>3064917
ERE didn't really have the same succession laws as the Franks did. Someone else would have probably taken the throne in Constantinople.

>>3064917
>marrying Charlemagne

>>3065603>>3065007


>barbarian marrying a roman

>>3066117
>barbarian
charlemagne was a civilizer
he was the culture hero of dark age europe

>>3066024
this

Byzantine politics and court intrigue being what they were, I very much doubt it.

>>3066117

These "Romans" preferred to marry Khazars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_IV_the_Khazar

Greeks will defend this

>>3064917
It would not have led to an actual union between the two but it could have definitely been a step in the right direction in rebuilding ties between the East and West.
Charlemagne should have been crowned Western Roman Emperor.

>>3065007
How did the Franks destroy Rome? Hell, by Charlemagne's time they'd already mixed so much with the Romano-Gauls there that they were as much Western Roman than old Frank.

>>3068064
>Khan'd

>>3064917
>inherits east and western roman empires.
>becomes high king of Rome.
>invades Spain and btfo's the Umayyads.
>cripples abbassids in the east.

>>3068446
>A barbarian larper becomes emperor of Rome despite having no claim to the Roman throne in Constantinople

Why on earth would anyone want this?