PAULO AFIARTA. - Cubicularius, antagonist of the primicerius Christopher (v.) in the latter's struggle to promote Charlemagne's protection of the Holy See.

While, however, Christopher, at the entry of Desiderius into Rome (771), was overwhelmed by the brief opposition of the king of the Lombards and killed together with his own son Sergius, Paul, no less greedy for power and profit than his antagonist, grew in esteem with Stephen III and especially with his immediate successor Adrian I (772-95), who made use of him in 773 by sending him as his envoy of reconciliation to the now declining and deposed father of Desiderata, the bride repudiated by the Frankish victor, Charlemagne.

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BIBL.: Lib. Pont., nos. 294-96; O. Bertolini, La caduta del primicerio Cristoforo nelle versioni dei contemporanei e le correnti antilongobarde e filolongobarde in Roma alla fine del pontificato di Stefano III (771-72), in Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia, 1 (1947), pp. 227-62, 349-78.

Carlo Callovini

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Paulo Afiarta

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