Agobard

But the Astronomer tells us that he was not tonsured into the monastic life but rather kept as a prisoner.

While the Astronomer is our main source for Louis the Pious, there are other sources such as Agobard of Lyon, who is a man writing in the court of Lothair, who places the whole blame for this civil war and fall from grace of the emperor squarely at the feet of Judith, his wife, and her apparent infidelity, which, as we know, is a classic trope that has been used to discredit many a powerful woman throughout history.

Agobard seems to imply that because Louis was not performing his husbandly duties, his wife was tempted by other men.

Agobard writes, In the beginning the said Lord Emperor was at peace and flourishing in the palace, whilst he kept his young wife with him with reverence, and paid to her that debt which according to the apostle is due to a wife.

But as the days went by, he began at first to become tepid, and then to freeze, and on this account the woman fell into lasciviousness.

As what was licit ceased, she turned ever more to that which was illicit.

Well, actually, where Dr. Jacques Vallée got the word megonia from was considered this realm in the clouds.

And there was a 13th century bishop, Bishop Agobard of Lyon, And he was sort of complaining about these sort of peasants around him with their primitive belief systems about these wizards who would come down from Magonia in flying ships to the ground.

Except they caught a couple of them and kept them for several days.

And that's a very Roswell-esque thing.

This granted significant privileges and protections to Jews who soon acquired elite status themselves.

One of the first examples of such a relationship emerged in the 810s when Agobard, 779 to 840, the Archbishop of Lyon, attempted to restrict the financial activities of Jews in his locality and was confronted with royal power.

Perhaps even more so than when Muslims invaded Spain in 711 when the Jews helped them overrun it, opening the gates of Toledo, another trope that they say that never happened, but I mean The silencing of Agobard may be regarded as the birth of the Jews as a hostile elite in European society.

Certainly it was the first major political victory for the taboo on claims regarding Jewish influence.

See? The elites invite them in.