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    Charlemagne is one of a handful of kings who gets awarded
    the post-nominal accolade “the Great.” His early life
    remains mysterious and the stories are assembled from
    various sources, but it seems he was born around 742 B.C.
So, Charlemagne was born around 742 B.C.? Doubt it!



Makes sense: since he noticed the calendar counting backwards he hung around to collect the holy foreskin and then waited until the Popes evolved and became powerful enough so he could give it to them.

It’s the simplest explanation.


Oh it would be, but we’ve known for centuries that the holy prepuce was actually...

According to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,[14][15] in the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[16] treatise entitled De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), claiming that the Holy Prepuce ascended, like Jesus himself, and was transformed into the rings of Saturn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce#Literary_allusi...


Wow, the rings of Saturn huh. Just how self-important can humans get lol


Woah, so Charlemagne was making it up??? Mind blown


Never meet your heroes, am I right?


Was he born at all? Maybe 742 B.C. has a grain of truth!

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


Seems like they fixed it.


"Charlemagne marked it by giving Leo one of the great medieval relics as a thank you—the Holy Prepuce, better known as Jesus’ foreskin."

  Not unless he had a time machine.


> but it seems he was born around 742 B.C.




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