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2 days ago · Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the ...
- 9 October 768 – 28 January 814
- Bertrada of Laon
The legal and political consequences of this were more or less ignored. Charlemagne died in 814 and his “empire” in the west fell apart soon afterwards. In the 10th century the claim was restored by Charlemagne’s descendant Otto I, the king of Germany, and the title evolved into “Holy Roman Emperor”.
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4 days ago · Charlemagne forced the conversion of the pagan Saxons to Christianity, and after this there were merely revolts instead of wars. 9 In short, the Saxons were able to better accept the title of Emperor than King in relation to their own pagan cults. 10 That he was never styled as 'King of the Saxons' alone is telling of his grasp on Saxony before ...
11 hours ago · Charlemagne crowned emperor. After being crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in 800, Charlemagne (747–814)—the first person in Western Europe to hold that title—succeeded in ...
3 days ago · The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over Louis the German in 843 through to Wilhelm II in 1918. It shows how almost every single ruler of Germany was related to every other by marriages, and hence they can all be put into a single tree.
11 hours ago · Why the game is called Charlemagne isn’t known, although it is worth noting that there is a long-standing legend that the King of Hearts card in a traditional deck of cards is representative of ...
11 hours ago · 1. by Carol Dixon. May 26th is the feast day of the Venerable Bede who was born around 673 AD. The first we hear of Bede is as a 7 year old sent to the abbey of Monkwearmouth to be educated by the abbot Benedict Biscop, a well- travelled cleric who often visited Rome, taking illuminated manuscripts from Northumbria and bringing back books for the monastery, along with that at their sister ...
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