User blog comment:Tesla Man/Season 4 Ideas/@comment-4328703-20111014030300/@comment-2006360-20111014174248

Caesar was stabbed by the SENATORS, not the GUARDS. The guards had no explicit role in the assassination! He never crowned himself emperor, now did you even take social studies (I didn't, I'm technically in college and a minor!). Caesar did plan on making himself a ruler with a hereditary succession much like a king, but before he could do such, the Senate killed him.

Charlemagne was never the Pope. He was a good Catholic and heir to the Frankish throne, but unless you think history can be changed by saying so, good luck thinking he was a pope! He was King of the Franks from the day his father died till the day he died, and never was part of any religious group. There was no such thing as the "Pope of the Franks", since most Franks were Catholic at the time. Charlemagne's only titles were these: Holy Roman Emperor (he never called himself that, but is considered the first Holy Roman Emperor because he was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" in response to the usurpation by Empress Dowager Irene of the Byzantine Empire, thus making the title "Roman Emperor" vacant and to the advantage of one of Charlemage's supporters, the Catholic Pope); King of the Franks (his original hereditary title); and King of the Lombards (a title he claimed after defeating the Lombardian barbarians in northern Italy).

The conclusion here is: go get an education.