[299:2] Bk. iii., letter 65. Comp. bk. v., letter 40. Greenwood, _Cathedra Petri_, ii., 233. [299:3] Bk. vi., letter 2. [299:4] Anastasius, _Biblioth._, No. 81. [300:1] Lea, _Stud. in Ch. Hist._, 31. [302:1] See Ch. XII. [303:1] Hardwick, _Hist. Christ. Ch. in M. A._, 54. [303:2] Lea, _Stud. in Ch. Hist._, 84-87. [303:3] Richter, 36. [303:4] Robinson, _Readings_, i., 120. [303:5] Bede, v., 10; Migne, vols. 86-88. [303:6] Waitz, iii., 23, note 3. [303:7] _Cf._ Thatcher and McNeal, No. 43. [304:1] Richter, i., 200. [304:2] Robinson, _Readings_, i., 120; Ogg, _Source Book_, § 14; Pertz, i., 136. [305:1] Ogg, _Source Book_, § 14; Thatcher and McNeal, No. 6. [305:2] Robinson, _Readings_, i., 122. [305:3] Pertz, i., 293; Thatcher and McNeal, No. 44. [305:4] _Ib._, No. 6; Robinson, _Readings_, i., 122; Migne, lxxi., 911. The title of "patrician" was introduced by Constantine. It was the name of a rank, not of an office, and was next to that of Emperor and consul. Hence it was usually conferred upon governors of the first class, and even upon barbarian chiefs whom the Emperor might wish to win. Thus, Odoacer, Theodoric, and Clovis had all received the title from the eastern court. Later it was even given to Mohammedan princes. It was very significant now that the Pope assumed the imperial right to confer it, because it was plainly an illegal usurpation. It made Pepin practically the viceroy of Italy and the protector of the Papacy. (See Smith and Cheetham.) [306:1] Migne, lxxxix., 1004; see Robinson, _Readings_, i., 122; Greenwood, _Cathedra Petri_, iii., 388. [306:2] Muratori, iii., 96; Migne, cxxviii., 1098. [306:3] Thatcher and McNeal, No. 45. (Baronius, _Ann._, 755; Migne, cxxviii., 1099.) See Wiltsch, _Geog. and Statistics of the Ch._, i., 264. [306:4] Gibbon, ch. 59. [306:5] See "Donation of Constantine" in Henderson, 319. [306:6] Waitz, iii., 364. [306:7] Pertz, _Leg._, i., 24; Mansi, xii.; Migne, xcvi., 1501. [307:1] Adams, _Mediæval Civilisation_, 127. [307:2] The best account of Charles the Great in English is Mombert's. [308:1] Robinson, _Readings_, i., 129; Ogg, _Source Book_, § 16, 17. See Mombert, ch. 3, 4. [308:2] Mombert, ch. 11. [308:3] _Ibid._, ch. 5. [308:4] _Ibid._, ch. 7. [308:5] See Waitz. Ogg, _Source Book_, § 18, 19. [309:1] Thatcher and McNeal, No. 46; Wiltsch, _Geog. and Statistics of the Ch._, i., 265; Greenwood, _Cathedra Petri_, ii., 415. [309:2] See Thatcher and McNeal, No. 47. [309:3] Döllinger, _Empire of Charles the Great_. [310:1] _Cf._ Thatcher and McNeal, No. 48. [310:2] _Ibid._, No. 49. Robinson, _Readings_, i., 131. [310:3] _Ibid._, i., 134. Thatcher and McNeal, No. 48; Ogg, _Source Book_, § 20; Mombert, ch. 14. [310:4] Eginhard, § 28. [311:1] Muratori, ii., 312; Waitz, iii., 174, note. [311:2] Döllinger, _Empire of Charles the Great_. [311:3] See Thatcher and McNeal, No. 13, 14. Bryce, 61-62. [311:4] Waitz, iii., 184, note.