After his conversion to Christianity by St. Remi, King Clovis gave the territory of Coucy to the new bishopric of Reims, grounding the Church in the things of Caesar, as the Emperor Constantine had traditionally grounded the Church of Rome. By Constantine’s gift, Christianity was both officially established and fatally compromised. As William Langland wrote, When the kindness of Constantine gave Holy Church endowments In lands and leases, lordships and servants, The Romans heard an angel cry on high above them, “This day dos ecclesiae has drunk venom And all who have Peter’s power are poisoned
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