524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

744.245 - 769.704 Dominic Sandbrook

And Charlemagne, whose ambitions are clearly considerable in a way that not even his father's had been, even when he's in Saxony, is thinking about what could I do against the Lombards. Maybe I could just swallow up their kingdom. When he strips this great pagan shrine of all its treasure, I think he is thinking, this is great. I can use this to essentially fund a war against the Lombards.