The Mistery of Belicena Villca new King , for legitimizing his usurpation , would consist of considerable booty : the creation of the Pontifical States . But this reward would not undermine the power of the Frankish Kingdom , because it would not be constituted at its expense , but at the expense of the Lombards and Byzantines : in effect , the Pope requested in payment of his alliance with the Frankish King , territories that had to be previously conquered . Made the arrangement , in November 751 King Childeric III was confined in a Benedictine monastery , and Pepin the Brief proclaimed King and anointed by Saint Boniface . In 754 King Pepin and Pope Stephen II meet at Ponthion , where they sign a treaty by which the Franks now undertake to protect the Catholic Church and to serve the Throne of Saint Peter . Thus , in 756 , the Franks donate to Saint Peter the Exarchate , Venice , Istria , half of the Lombard Kingdom and the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento .
With Pepin the Short , the Carolingian dynasty is inaugurated , a cornerstone in the work of the White Fraternity . From the above , it is clearly evident that the court and all the springs of the Frankish State were taken over by the Benedictine Order : it will not be difficult to imagine , then , in what kind of environment they would educate their grandchildren and family , and what beliefs would be instilled in them about the ancient " pagan " religion of the Germans and their ancestral Gods . In view of this , it will be necessary to acknowledge Charles the Great for having done everything possible to become a Judeo-Christian and fulfill the Golen plan .
The fruit of centuries of patient and reserved labor obtained in the Benedictine monasteries could be observed in the Carolingian court , especially in the so-called " Palatine School ". This School was personally attended by the Emperor with his sons and daughters , his personal guard , and other members of the court , to listen to the lessons taught by the Benedictine “ wise men ”, arrived , in many cases , from distant monasteries : from Italy came to Aachen , Paul of Pisa , Paulinus of Aquileia , Paul Deacon of Pavia , etc .; from Spain , one of the Lords of Tharsis came with the mission of spying on the march of the Golen conspiracy , bringing back discouraging news of the magnitude and depth of the enemy movement : he was called Tiwulfo de Tharsis and he was famous for his book written at the Palatine School , entitled " De Spiritu Sancto Bellipotens ”. Despite these backgrounds , the vast majority of Masters were Irish and Anglo-Saxon , that is , Golen and Golen ' s henchmen . Among the latter , it is worth mentioning the mastermind of the Palatine School and of the general dissemination that would be given , from it , to " Benedictine culture ": I ' m referring to Alcuin of York , disciple of the School of Saint Bede , the Venerable , who joined the Palatine School in 781 and directed between 796 and 804 , date of his death , the School of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours . His Schola Palatina is the focus of the so-called “ Carolingian rennaisance ”, to which they contribute his works , of classical and Neoplatonic inspiration , and based on concepts of Priscian , Donatus , Isidore , Bede , Boethius , such as De Ratione Animae , or his famous manuals that governed European education for centuries : Grammatica , De Orthographia , De Rethorica , De Dialectica , etc .
From the Palatine School come the ideas for the “ Encyclical de litteris colendis ”, whose resolutions approved by Charlemagne had force of law and ordered the creation , in all monasteries and cathedrals , of Schools for Priests and laymen : there , should be taught the Trivium , the Quadrivium , the Philosophy and Theology . The Trivium and the Quadrivium formed the socalled " Seven liberal arts ”: the Trivium contained the Grammar or Philology , the Rhetoric and the Dialectics ; and the Quadrivium , Astronomy , Geometry , Arithmetic and Music . Of course , the teaching of such subjects was in charge of the Benedictine monks , who had been preparing for it for two hundred years and they were the only ones with enough teachers and classical material with which to fulfill the royal order , which they themselves had inspired . And the Benedictine Golen were very clear about how they should educate European minds , so that in times to come will collectively experience the imperative need of the local Temple : then the Golen Builders College , soon to be set in motion , would raise never seen Stone Temples , magnificent Cathedrals , Constructions
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