AHC: Frankish Empire / HRE from Galicia (Gallaecia) to Galicia (Galich)

With a POD from at least Charlemagne's coronation as emperor, the challenge is to expand the entity that would become the HRE OTL to both Galicias. Discuss!
 
I don't know how this could be done but would involve a unified Francia, in other words changing succession.
Maybe there could be a religious element to all of this.
Sadly I don't know as much as I would like to about the era.
Would make a great CKII game though...
 
It would probably require a pre-Charlemagne POD. An earlier invention of the horse collar could be a good start, as it would help increase the Franks' population and hence ability to conquer and hold on to new territories. Plus, as English Nationalist points out, you'd probably need to change Frankish succession laws away from the division of inheritance model which ended up splitting the Empire IOTL.
 
Not only a unified Frankish Empire (even if divided in quadrants headed by Elector types) but also a concerted power projection to take either Galicia without opposition from surrounding powers
 
Not only a unified Frankish Empire (even if divided in quadrants headed by Elector types) but also a concerted power projection to take either Galicia without opposition from surrounding powers
Err... What surrounding powers?

A unified Carolingian Empire is going to totally DOMINATE any surviving neighbour, except for the Byzantines.

Just get the ERE to fall, or get reduced in power, as OTL, and this HRE would naturally expand, first into pagan lands, then quite possibly replacing the ERE as a supporting power against Islam.

For the Iberian Galicia, get one of the tiny remnant Christian kingdoms to swear fealty to the Emperor and join the HRE in exchange for helping the Reconquista, and whichever ruler that is will massively expand territory at the expense of the growth of the other small Iberian kingdoms. If this first kingdom isn't Leon (which, IIRC owned Galicia), then either Leon unites via marriage (as Castile did iOTL), or it joins the HRE to get more of the spoils.

For the Ukrainian Galicia, that might come as a result of a pagan kingdom (e.g. Poland) not only converting, but also joining the HRE. This kingdom then expands to take in the area of OTL's PLC, say - at least the southern portions, and we're done. Candidates other than Poland could include the Czechs or Hungarians. To KEEP this land, it would help to get an earlier version of the Unates (Byzantine Rite churches under the rule of Rome).
 
Keep the Carolingian Empire united, and let them expand after Charlemagne rather than war over his scraps, and you could well get it. Focus expansion against the Muslims in Iberia and the pagans in Poland, and you're there almost already.
 
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