DBWI : Rome didn't raided by Vikings.

What if Rome wasn't raided and burnt by Vikings in 860?

Let's say the city manage to stand during the siege and that Hastings go elsewhere or that he plunder another city instead (I could say he counfounded Rome and another city, but even Vikings weren't that retarded, isn't?).

Could the Patriarch of Rome would have take more of Italy, and even (why not) finally take over Aquileans?
 
I'd go further than that. We have some interesting documents from the Frankish Arnulfing dynasty that indicate the Patriarchs of Rome in the early 800s were involved in an attempt to resurrect the imperial title in the west. It seems that the Arnulfing kings (strictly speaking they'd have to be called the Pippinids, I suppose) subscribed to a very sweeping and totally spurious territorial claim by the Roman patriarchs in return for being given support in their claim to first the royal, then an imperial crown. The Arnulfings were quite impressive during their brief reign, going even beyond the Merovingian borders of Francia. Assuming their alliance with the patriarchy holds, could we see something like a cargo cult version of the imperial crown rise?
 
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