Italy’s Masterpiece: the Constitutum Constantini

A Decree from the Ænglisc Rīce Chancellery

Today’s publication at The Party is coming by decree from Alexandra’s office in the Chancellery. She has dictated some notes concerning a masterpiece from Italy that need to be put together into a more or less coherent script, recommending that we start with reference to Charlemagne, king of the Franks in the second half of the eighth century and later emperor of a very large kingdom comprising numerous lands and peoples.

I the Hun have been given temporal authority to expose one of the biggest frauds in history and which emanated straight out of Italy, and this seal expires tonight at midnight – by which time I must have presented the papers at the Ænglisc Rīce Chancellery for proof-reading and then, once approved, printed them off at The Party.

Going by time restriction, I need to make use of today’s authority with succinct paragraphs, for which reason I will omit the names of the various popes, referring to these as “the pope”, and will also omit the names of all the various peoples that were part of Charlemagne’s empire, bar those directly involved in the events that led up to the fraudulent decree called Constitutum Constantini.

The Assumption

It is believed and assumed that many people are unaware of the aforementioned document, even though its existence and relevance is known within the corridors of high places, even at Windsor Castle. The assumption is, in the days when this document was publicly disowned as a fraudulent piece of work, most people could not read or write and the common folks therefore had little or nothing to say in regards to its implications. Nor would it have been in the interest of potentates then and now to give people food for thought by discussing it in public places lest other questionable decrees oftentimes made in governing circles be also questioned.

The Historical Background

During the eighth century, some areas of central Italy – and in particular Rome – were in danger of being invaded by the Langobards who several centuries earlier had settled in much of the northern half and some central areas of the country. The pope pleaded with King Charlemagne of France to send an army to Italy to fight his adversaries. As there were existing relations between Franks and Langobards, Charlemage was unwilling to get involved, so the pope made use of a tactic to persuade him: he offered him unlimited support in the name of the Roman Empire.

The Alleged Decree

The Italian clerics in Rome styled out a manuscript in the form of an imperial decree, written in a mixture of ecclesiastical and classical Latin and which they attributed to the emperor Constantine. But this emperor had reigned in the first part of the fourth century, some four hundred and fifty years before the alleged decree was made. According to the Constitutum Constantini, the Roman emperor had given to the pope – and therefore to all popes – full spiritual authority over all churches in the world, along with temporal authority over the western half of the Roman Empire – from Italy all the way to the Rhine, from Gaul to Iberia and from northern Africa to Britain.

This, they said to Charlemagne, is our authority in the person of the papal father. They went on to state: If you come with your army and fight the Langobards, you will be upholding this imperial decree by enforcing it in favour of its recipient. In return, the Italian clergy by way of its pope will give you recognition, titles and blessings.

And Charlemagne king of the Franks descended the Alps into Italy and, in two successive wars, put an end to the reign of the Langobards. As a result, the papal state centred in Rome and in parts of central Italy was preserved and given impetus to expand into areas of northern Italy.

Historic Heritage of the Constitutum Constantini

Alexandra has asked me to limit the edition to the Frankish king who reigned in the eighth century, explaining that further reference to the extent in which this fake imperial decree was used will be the object of future publications.

The Hun will now be delivering the draft script to the Chancellery and when it is corrected and approved it will be published. However, in line with Alexandra’s temporal requirements, we need to take into account that the story of Charlemagne does not finish here. He went on to be crowned as the Emperor of the Romans by the pope in person. This event took place in Rome in the year 800 as a direct result of the implications of the Constitutum Constantini

From this time on, German emperors felt bound by way of their presumed historic heritage to use the title of Holy Roman Emperor. It would not be until the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, where Napoleon Bonaparte and the French army prevailed, that the name "Holy Roman Emperor" would change to Emperor of Austria. This opened the door to some states in Germany changing their title from principality to kingdom, although Prussia had already assumed this definition in 1701, later becoming known as the Second Reich, the one which followed on from the first (presumed Roman) empire.

One historic consequence of the Constitutum Constantini is the humiliation of Canossa, as seen in this link to our next edition.

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