Leo's actions have severely strained relations with …
Years: 739 - 739
Leo's actions have severely strained relations with the papacy, causing the pope to turn increasingly to the Frankish kings as alternative protectors of the Holy See in Rome and weakening the imperial position in the Italian peninsula.
Leo retaliates against Gregory by halting financial contributions to the papacy from southern Italy.
The successive popes Gregory II and Gregory III have turned away from Constantinople because of increased imperial taxation, the emperor's policy of iconoclasm, and Constantinople's failure to protect Rome adequately.
Liutprand seizes four cities of the Duchy of Rome in 739.
Pope Gregory appeals to Charles Martel, the Frankish ruler of Gaul, but Charles, who had been Liutprand's ally against the Saracens in Provence, refuses aid.
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People
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- Franks
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Rome, Duchy of
- Lombards (Italy), Kingdom of the
- Ravenna, Exarchate of
- Naples, Duchy of
- Francia (mayors of the palaces of Austrasia and Neustria)
- Sicily (theme)
- Saracens
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Isaurian dynasty
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Years: 739 - 739
Locations
People
Groups
- Franks
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Rome, Duchy of
- Lombards (Italy), Kingdom of the
- Ravenna, Exarchate of
- Naples, Duchy of
- Francia (mayors of the palaces of Austrasia and Neustria)
- Sicily (theme)
- Saracens
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Isaurian dynasty
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions