Thou are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. In 771 the new emperor Charlemagne faced dire issues in his empire. If not tended, these problems would have rendered his empire fractured and useless, and he knew it. The issue did not come from outside threats, though those were many. Saxons threatened from the north, war in the south in Spain raged on as the Islamic Empire rapid