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Leo III c.750-816
Byzantine pope
He saw during his pontificate (795-816) the formal establishment of the Empire of the West. In the 8th century the popes, through the practical withdrawal of the Eastern emperors, had exercised a temporal supremacy in Rome, under the protectorate of the Frankish sovereigns. Leo was obliged to flee to Spoleto in 799, from where he went to Paderborn to confer with Charlemagne. On his return to Rome he was received with honour. In 800 Charlemagne, having come to Rome, was crowned emperor by Leo, and the temporal sovereignty of the pope over the Roman city and state was formally established, under the suzerainty of the emperor.
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