523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

934.455 - 959.812 Tom Holland

He doesn't care about their educational standards or whether they have local links to the cities that they are going to serve as bishops for, or if they have family connections to the saints whose tombs lie in their cathedrals. So that class of person is being elbowed aside and Charles is putting in their place, you Effectively, this is, I think, the final extinction of Roman Gaul.