524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

906.957 - 933.15 Dominic Sandbrook

When Charlemagne gets this message, it confirms his worst anxieties, essentially that Desiderius will be using these two nephews to strike at him. And so he thinks, okay, I've got to go to war. So the summer of 773, Charles summons his peers, his warriors, his advisors to Geneva, in Switzerland, holds a great council there. He wants to get the support of his followers for the war that's to come.