The German role as successors to the Franks is argued explicitly in two
pro-imperial tracts of the 15th century. Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, in
De ortu et auctoritate imperii Romani (published by Wolkan in vol. 2 of
Der Briefwechsel des Eneas Sylvius Piccolomini) states this quite
specifically. Juan de Torquemada, in the Opusculum on the Empire
published by Jedin in Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, is more indirect;
but he specifically includes the French & Spanish kingdoms among those
subject to Charlemagne's successors.
tom Izbicki
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