Key Facts
 Other names Carloman Pope Zachary ("good priest"), Karloman.
 Born 716
 Location  St. Denis, Paris (Frankish Empire)
Bloodline Carolingian
Married Yes
Children Stephen, Paul
Position Vicarius Christi Zacharias (747-752)
Died March 752

 
 Source of Facts and Important Announcement
Status Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification   Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.
  Background
  Carloman was the eldest son of Charles Martel, major domo or mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and his wife Chrotrud. His name is a literal fiction meaning Karl ("man") of man. Four generations of Pippins named their eldest "Pepin/Pippin". His real name as eldest was almost certainly not "Carloman"-- what it was now lost in history.
  The seat of the family power was St. Denis Palace five miles north from the centre of Paris-- a magnificent palace and the first Gothic construction in History. The site was later claimed to be the originate site of the tomb of St. Denis ("Dionysus"). This misleading historical myth is no earlier than the 14th Century. Nor was it the site of the Royal tombs of the Merovingians before the 8th Century --most having been moved there after the palace was massively renovated to become the 1st church of the Catholic Church from 741.
  Similar to his two brothers (Pepin and Winfred), Carloman was educated by one of the most famous minds of the century -- the Venerable Bede. Like his brothers, Carloman was profoundly influenced by his wide education by Bede -- attested by his lifelong fascination in history, religion and ancient practices.
  Carloman was 14 in when he witnessed in 730 the anguish brought about by the excommunication of his devout father and the whole family. As the eldest, Carloman would also have been introduced to his father's plan to create an entirely new christian faith in opposition to Constantinople, including the new unifying language of the Frankish Empire- Anglaise (English).
  In the same year of his death (741), Charles ensured each of his three sons were secure and clear in their duties - Carloman in Austrasia, Pippin in Neustria and Winfred (Grifo) in Bavaria.
  Contrary to the deliberate myths of feuding between the brothers, Carloman, Pepin and Winfred maintained a lifelong oath to their father to protect and honor one another. All accounts to the contrary demonstrating a complete contradiction to the consistent behaviour of five generation of Pippins.
  The throne of the Franks had remained vacant since 737, in spite of universal acknowledgment of the Pippins held the power and were capable any day to seize the throne and claim its as theirs -- the thorn remaining the continued excommunication of the whole clan.
  Upon the death of their father, both Carloman and Pepin were tested by resistence and some acts of rebellion through Hunoald of Aquitaine in 742, the Saxons and even Odilo of Bavaria.
  The brothers persisted with their fathers vision and in the same year Carloman convened the Concilium Germanicum-- the first major synod of the new Christian Church of the Franks. Chaired by him, the synod ruled (amongst other items) that priests were not allowed to bear arms or to host females in their houses and that it was one of their primary tasks to eradicate pagan beliefs. But the most important canon of this synod was to rename the new christian religion the Catholic Church --Catholic from Greek meaning universal -- a direct attack in name on Constantinople.
  Carloman was instrumental as the head of the family in choosing to convert the entire palace into a sacred shrine to their father and the very first church of the Catholic Church--including its very first Cathedral.
  Upon hearing of the synod and the new name for the fledgling "Catholic Church", Holy Roman Emperor Constantine V (741- 775), son of Emperor Leo III responded by calling the Franks "Iconodules" (Greek eikono-doulos meaning "one who serves (false) images"). The insult probably had the opposite effect in encouraging the sons of Charles Martel to redouble their efforts. Yet, the label had a lasting historic effect and served as a perfect "icon" itself to misrepresent and hide the truth of the formation of the new Catholic Church as some petty "picture scandal".
  As devout christians --Carloman, Pepin and Winfred would have been clearly aware of the dangerous position they now faced. If they forced one of their own to take the kingship of the Franks, then it would be as a pagan, not christian king --unless an authority equal or greater existed than the Primate and Patriarch of Christianity at Constantinople. Yet if they did not resolve the issue quickly, then they risked continued rebellion within their Empire by christian nobles demanding a king.
  In 743, the brothers permitted the crowning of Childeric III (743-751) by family friend Daniel of Winchester as King of the Franks as an interim measure, while they refined their plan for the rise of their Catholic Church. However, the move to appoint a puppet king only subdued part of the Empire and Hunoald of Aquitaine now aligned himself with the Basques in full scale rebellion.
  By 745, the rebellion was put down and Carloman and Pepin focused their attention on the plan to strengthen the claim of the Catholic Church superior to Constantinople and therefore finally release themselves from the bond of excommunication. By no later than 746, work must have been well underway on completing the drafting of the Donation of Constantine St. Denis Abbey as well as the earliest draft of the Vulgate -- based on the Latin writings of St. Jerome.
  With the mythical story of St. Peter somehow being the first Vicar of Rome underway, the forged Donation of Constantine claiming Constantine gave his spiritual authority as "founder of Christianity" to a Vicar located in Old Rome, all that was left was to invade Italy, capture Rome and establish the office of Vicarius Christi (Vicar of Christ).
  It is certain that the Holy Roman Emperors of Constantinople had spies aware of the plans of the brothers, as fragmentary history points to Emperor Constantine V (741- 775) reinforcing the garrison at Rome-- at the expense of defending his Exarch (Ravenna) --against a Frankish attack. Carloman left for Rome by 747, landing a sizeable force against the Byzantines.
  During the siege of Rome, Carloman made Monte Cassino (80 miles southeast of Rome) his headquarters, building a massive monastery, armoury and quarters for his men.
  The diversion of Byzantine forces for the siege to control Rome, greatly weakened the northern borders of the Byzantine Exarch of Ravenna and from 748 most of the Exarch had fallen to the Lombard's with a handful of cities under siege. As testament to the seriousness with which the Byzantines regarded the fall of Rome to the Franks, it is recorded that Emperor Constantine continued to send more troops and ships to try and break the siege.
  By 751, Carloman was victorious and Rome was captured. However, rather than claiming Rome as part of the Frankish Empire, Carloman enacted the next stage of the plan of the brothers and renounced his previous life, changed his name to Zacharias (in honor of the exiled High Priest father of John the Baptist) and the title Vicarius Christi -- or Vicar of Christ.
  On producing the Donation of Constantine, Zacharias then issued the first ever "Papal Bull" in summarily excommunicating the entire Byzantine royal family, the Patriarch and his bishops. Now, for the first time in 21 years, the Pippins could rid themselves of the stigma of excommunication- the work of Vicarius Christi Zacharias (Carloman) legally neutralizing the Byzantines by claiming their church had no apostolic authority.
  But before Zacharis could crown his brother Pepin as the legitimate christian King of the Franks, the Byzantines unleashed everything they could, abandoning whole parts of their Empire in an attempt to defeat the brothers. Carloman was now himself under siege by fresh Byzantine troops and forced back into battle.
  In a bold move in the same year (751), he anointed his younger brother Winfred as his emissary, while Pepin created yet two more forgeries- the Chair of St. Peter and the document known as the Letter of St. Peter from which the concept of Peter's Pence was born.
  Pepin summonsed King Childeric III ordering him to summonse his nobles to meet him at St. Denis where Childeric III resigned-- while Pepins troops watched on. Winfred then produced both the Chair of St. Peter and the Letter of St. Peter as "proof" to the nobles of the legitimate authority of Zacharias in Rome and that the curse of excommunication against the Pippins has indeed been nulified. With that, Winfred crowned his own brother Pepin on the "Chair of St. Peter" - King of the Frankish Empire.
  Yet Carloman had little time away from war to bed down the new office of Vicarius Christi and the beginnings of the Catholic Church as by 752 he was murdered, presumably by a further attack from Constantinople.
  If the Byzantines had hoped the murder of Zacharias as the first "Pope" would spell the end of the Catholic Church, they were sadly mistaken. The murder of his brother completed changed the behaviour of Pepin. For the remained of his life he became the most ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant --matching and sometimes exceeding the cruelty of the contemporary Umayyads.
  Carloman's son (Pope Stephen I) managed to escape back to Frankish territory where Pepin undertook a lavish ceremony and the first "coronation" in history at St. Denis Bascilica where "Pope" Stephen crowned King Pepin (his uncle) as patricius Romanorum (Patrician of the Romans). Two years later, not a single Byzantine soldier was alive on the Italian Peninsula and the Lombards had been crushed by Pepin.
   
  Most Evil Crimes
 
 List of most evil crimes
Type Year Crime
751 CE Of publishing false documents/statements That Pope Zachary, also known as St. Zachary in full knowledge of the unlawful act, did delivery commission the forgery of a letter written in pure gold upon fine vellum alleging it to be from St. Peter saying the following::

Peter, elected Apostle by Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. I, Peter, summoned to the apostolate by Christ, Son of the Living God, has received from the Divine Might the mission of enlightening the whole world...

Wherefore, all those who, having heard my preaching, put it into practice, must believe absolutely that by God's order their sins are cleansed in this world and they shall enter stainless into everlasting life Come ye to the aid of the Roman people, which has been entrusted to me by God. And I, on the day of Judgment, shall prepare for you a splendid dwelling place in the Kingdom of God.

Signed, Peter, Prince of the Apostles

That this letter was deliverately intended to deceive the court of the Franks to influence the election of Pepin and furthermore to secure the ownership of the lands under his control upon his death.
751 CE Of publishing false documents/statements That Pope Zacharias did falsely acknowledge the authority of Pepin the Short as the ruler of the Franks over the bloodlines of the Merovingian kings who preceded him by claiming they were but illegitimate figureheads.
751 CE Of moral indecency and depravity for the purpose of extortion and deceptionThat Pope Zachary did commission a chair built of fine timber and then did claim it to be the very chair upon which St. Peter did sit when alleged Bishop of Rome. That this fraud was done with deliberate calculation to deceive the Franks and all Christians into believing its authenticity.
   
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