Leo the Third - A History of the Roman Empire

The eruption of thera may have caused leo to believe that god was against the byzantines. Leo would have noted that the umad ruler, zid the second, was doing comparatively well with no furious volcanic eruptions destroying cities in his land. And this could have been the turning point for leo as he may have thought that yazid was on to something. If we go to the end of the eighth century, we find another leo the third, but this time he was the elected patriarch of rome,. A position which is commonly referred to now as the pope. So leo turned to the king of the franks, charlemagne, for protection