[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

I'm not actually that well read up on Charlemagne's time, but I wonder: is there any reason to believe in a warlike Man of God? I'm talking someone like Odo or Adhemar? Odo was a Bishop, and the half-brother of William the Conqueror. He fought on the battlefield in full mail with a cudgel, I'm not sure if he's also depicted with a sword at his waist. But Adhemar, the Papal Legate for the Crusade is known to have fought in the lines using a sword.

We are centuries before either men, but is there any reason to suspect equally martial bishops during Charle's time?

One of the twelve paladins attested in multiple sources is Turpin, archbishop of Reims. In the Chanson de Roland he had to discard his lance when it got the fifth corpse impaled on it because the added weight made it unwieldy.