Question 16 After canceling her son's betrothal to the daughter of Charlemagne, forcing him to marry someone he hated, sanctioning a second marriage (which made him a bigamist) and having him scourged with rods when he showed signs of escaping her power, she ordered him to be blinded and took the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire in her own right.
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