True Invention: That is, of the inventions which have been invented by the German nation

(but not deposed from the imperial regime, which neither he nor his ancestors ever had) share or hand over to Emperor Carl? If Emperor Carol had perhaps desired a bishop's office, Bishop Leo could have granted him such a thing. In this case, however, in which the rights of the Roman Empire as secular or political matters are discussed, we should surely be able to say with consistency: who, having been deposed from all secular power and offices, could have handed them over to another?

The Roman people also did not make Carolus Emperor, but recognized him as such and subsequently commanded through their bishop that he be gifted with the imperial crown. "The Roman citizens," says Sigebertus, "have unanimously extolled the praise and glorious name of Emperor Caroli Magni and, through the hands and mediation of their Bishop Leonis, crowned him with the imperial crown." So far the aforementioned author Sigebertus. To all of this, it is indeed an unbearable misuse of words if one wanted to say that the one who, out of the duty of his office, placed the royal crown upon the king, handed over the same together with the kingdom—which did not belong to him—just as the tailor does not give the new clothes that he puts on someone,