What if, the eastern Roman empire recongise the HRE as the western empire?

What if, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor, the Eastern Empire decides to recognise him as the western empire? Maybe it is due to the fact that the eastern empire thinks that this is the only way they can maintain their identity as Romans?

So what will happen we the only power that can legally recognise Charlemagne decides to recognise him as the western empire, on the condition he needs to recognise the eastern emperor, and romanise himself.
 
What if, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor, the Eastern Empire decides to recognise him as the western empire? Maybe it is due to the fact that the eastern empire thinks that this is the only way they can maintain their identity as Romans?
I don't see how granting Charlemagne recognition would help the Byzantines maintain their Roman identity, quite the opposite actually (ergo OTL).

So what will happen we the only power that can legally recognise Charlemagne decides to recognise him as the western empire, on the condition he needs to recognise the eastern emperor, and romanise himself.
Why should Basileos hail the King of the Franks, an unwashed barbarian, as an equal, heir to Augustus and Constantine? The Franks of Gaul will surely pay for their insolence in claiming the purple.

Idi Amin claimed to be the King of Scotland, why didn't London grant him recognition? ;)
 
I understand that Charlemange was crowned the emperor of the entire Roman empire because the church didn't recognise Irene. So the whole thing was bound to piss Byzantium off. However I wonder about it happening when Otto was crowned, when there was the Irene issue and the Macedonians had bought Byzantium to a great height in it's power.
 
I don't see how granting Charlemagne recognition would help the Byzantines maintain their Roman identity, quite the opposite actually (ergo OTL).


Why should Basileos hail the King of the Franks, an unwashed barbarian, as an equal, heir to Augustus and Constantine? The Franks of Gaul will surely pay for their insolence in claiming the purple.

Idi Amin claimed to be the King of Scotland, why didn't London grant him recognition? ;)


Assume the pope recongise the Roman empire at that time as the eastern roman empire, and only recongise the Frankish empire as the 2nd western Empire.
 
ASB. The vasilis would never do that - remember, the Patriarch and the Pope excommunicated each other way back when, so something like recognizing the HREGN as the "western" empire is impossible.
 
ASB. The vasilis would never do that - remember, the Patriarch and the Pope excommunicated each other way back when, so something like recognizing the HREGN as the "western" empire is impossible.

The excommunication happened two hundred years after Charlemagne (if you are talking about the Great Schism), so I fail to see how that would be a problem.

Although I do agree that recognition would be ASB.
 
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