Given the following scenario:
- Pepin survives the siege of Venice in 810 and conquers the city.
- He inherits the HRE when Charlemagne dies. Louis does not survive the accident of 817 and thus Pepin remains the only Emperor.
- He retains the core of the Empire (Gaul, Lower Germany, Alps) while he concede satellital areas to his son and nephews:
* For his son Bernard, the Kingdom of the Lombards (Italy).
* For his nephew Lothair, the Kingdom of the Saxons.
* For his nephew Pepin, the Kingdom of the Avars (Bohemia, Pannonia, Croatia...).
* For his nephew Louis, the Kingdom of the Goths (Spanish March + Septimania).
- They four recognize Pepin's overlordship as Holy Roman Emperor, but they act as quasi-independent monarchs.
- This way, Pepin focus on ruling and consolidation of his authority in the Imperial core, while his son and nephews can focus on expanding their peripheral realms:
* Bernard can expand his realm into Southern Italy and Sicily.
* Lothair can expand his realm into Jutland and modern East Germany.
* Pepin the Young can expand his realm into Moravia and part of Transylvania.
* Louis can expand his realm into the Ebro valley, the Balearic islands and other parts of Muslim Spain.
Do you think this model would have worked for making the Carolingian HRE a more stable, functional and expansive entity during the 9th century?
- Pepin survives the siege of Venice in 810 and conquers the city.
- He inherits the HRE when Charlemagne dies. Louis does not survive the accident of 817 and thus Pepin remains the only Emperor.
- He retains the core of the Empire (Gaul, Lower Germany, Alps) while he concede satellital areas to his son and nephews:
* For his son Bernard, the Kingdom of the Lombards (Italy).
* For his nephew Lothair, the Kingdom of the Saxons.
* For his nephew Pepin, the Kingdom of the Avars (Bohemia, Pannonia, Croatia...).
* For his nephew Louis, the Kingdom of the Goths (Spanish March + Septimania).
- They four recognize Pepin's overlordship as Holy Roman Emperor, but they act as quasi-independent monarchs.
- This way, Pepin focus on ruling and consolidation of his authority in the Imperial core, while his son and nephews can focus on expanding their peripheral realms:
* Bernard can expand his realm into Southern Italy and Sicily.
* Lothair can expand his realm into Jutland and modern East Germany.
* Pepin the Young can expand his realm into Moravia and part of Transylvania.
* Louis can expand his realm into the Ebro valley, the Balearic islands and other parts of Muslim Spain.
Do you think this model would have worked for making the Carolingian HRE a more stable, functional and expansive entity during the 9th century?