Editing Padua (section)

===Frankish and Episcopal Supremacy===
At the Diet of Aix-la-Chapelle (828), the duchy and [[Marches|march of Friuli]], in which Padua lay, was divided into four counties, one of which took its title from the city of Padua.

The end of the early [[Middle Ages]] in Padua was marked by the sack of the city by the [[Hungarian people|Magyars]] in 899. It was many years after Padua recovered from this ravage.

During the period of [[Roman Catholic Church|episcopal]] supremacy over the cities of northern Italy, Padua does not appear to have been either very important or very active. The general tendency of its policy throughout the [[Investiture Controversy|war of investitures]] was Imperial ([[Ghibelline]]) and not Roman ([[Guelphs|Guelph]]); and its bishops were, for the most part, of Germanic extraction.