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In 800, Pope Leo III (750-816) crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.
Charlemagne was crowned the new Roman emperor in A.D. 800
Famously, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Roman People on December 25, 800 by Pope Leo III. After that the subsequent emperors of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires were generally, but not all, crowned by the pope. When a person was elected emperor, he was not called the emperor, but King of Germany until the pope crowned him, but sometimes this took years to happen.
Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in 800. However, he was the leader of what historians call the Carolingian Empire, not the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire started in 936 with Otto I.
It was Charlemagne, the king of the Franks. His coronation by the pope was the beginning of the Carolingian Empire (named after Charlemagne) which lasted from 800 to 888. To be precise, the pope was Leo III.