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Apr 12, 2024 · By her teens, Bertha was locked in a passionate affair with Angilbert, Charlemagne’s closest advisor, who was more than 30 years older than she. They never married but had two sons together ...
Bertha was in a long relationship with Angilbert, a court official, which produced three children. During 794–5, Angilbert presented a poem as a court entertainment, praising the beauty and charms of Charlemagne's daughters; Bertha is praised in particular for having critical discernment and appreciation for poetry, which Angilbert points out ...
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- Fast Facts: Charlemagne
- Birth Story and Childhood
- Charlemagne’s Father – Pepin The Short
- Death of Pepin The Short
- Sole Reign and The Expansion of His Kingdom
- Charlemagne’s Francia War Machine
- Campaigns Against The Lombards
- Humiliation in Spain
- Conquests of Bavaria and The Avars
- Charlemagne’s Campaigns Against The Saxons
Date of Birth: c. 742 Place of Birth: Aachen, Frankish Kingdom Date of Death: January 814 Place of Death: Aachen Burial place: A cathedral in Aachen (present-day Germany) Dynasty: Carolingian Parents: Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon Grandfather:Charles Martel Siblings: Carloman, Gisela, Pepin, Adelais, Chrothais Spouse: — 4 – Desiderata (from ...
Believed to have been born around 742, Charlemagne’s parents were Pepin the Short (also known as Pippin III) and Bertrada of Laon. His father Pepin the Short, who was almost like the grand vizier of the Merovingian rulers, rose to the throne of the Franks by toppling Childeric III (the last king of the Merovingians) around 751. Although his birthpl...
Charlemagne’s father was not a member of the royal family; he was actually a mayor – a prime-minister-like job – of the royal palace during the Merovingian dynasty. Supported by Pope Stephen II in Rome, Pippin was able to maneuver his way to the throne around 751. He signed a pact with the Church leaders at Ponthion around 754. In exchange for the ...
Upon the death of his father Pepin in 768, Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman co-ruled. In accordance with Frankish customary practice, the Frankish kingdom was split (by the general assembly) between the siblings “with divine assent” (divino nutu). Right from the onset, sibling rivalry caused the kingdom to suffer quite a bit. Power-hung...
It must be noted that up until Charlemagne, no other previous king of the Franks had maintained a strong grip on the entire of Europe (apart from the Western Roman empire that collapsed in the 5th century). During Charlemagne’s reign, Europe witnessed a level of unity not seen for a long time. A warrior-king who was steep deep in Frankish tradition...
Such was the effectiveness of his military campaigns that he was regarded as the greatest conqueror of his era. To those unfortunate kingdoms that he vanquished, he was infamous for his ruthless methods. This trait of his was evident in 782 when he is believed to have sent more than 4,500 Saxons to their early graves in what would later be termed a...
Upon becoming the sole ruler of the Franks, Charlemagne quickly cast his attention to the Lombards that he had earlier gone into an alliance with. He annulled his marriage to his Lombard wife, enabling him to carry out his conquests against the Lombards. Around 774, Charlemagne headed the call of Pope Adrian I and marched his army to northern Italy...
In 778 Charlemagne marched into Spain after leaders in southern Gaul and northern Spain had reached out to him to protect them from Umayyad Muslim rulers. Gravely underestimating the Umayyad rulers, the Frankish army had to retreat. On their way back home, however, they were pounded by Gascon forces (i.e. Basque). Some level of consolation came aft...
For years, the leaders of Bavaria had refused succumbing to rule of the Franks. However, that all changed in 787/788 when Charlemagne led his mighty army and took control of the area. With Bavaria part of his kingdom, Charlemagne proceeded to the bordering empire that was made up of the Avars – a wealthy group of Asiatic nomads whose political and ...
Of all his military campaigns, perhaps the ones he had against the Saxons were the most challenging and time consuming. The Saxons were powerful Germanic people that occupied areas from present-day Schleswig to areas along the Baltic coast. Their expansion came on the back of their mastery of piracy and raids in the North Sea. During the time of Ch...
The pan-European nature of Charlemagne's influence is indicated by the origins of many of the men who worked for him: Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxons from York; Theodulf, a Visigoth, probably from Septimania; Paul the Deacon, a Lombard; and Angilbert and Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, who were Franks.
Queen Bertha: A Historical Enigma. In 597, St Augustine arrived in England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Virtually every modern description of this mission mentions Queen Bertha of Kent. She has gone down in legend as the Christian queen who influenced her pagan husband, King Æthelberht, in Augustine’s favour.
Bertha and Angilbert are an example of how resistance to the idea of a sacramental marriage could coincide with holding church offices. On the other hand, some historians have speculated that Charlemagne opposed formal marriages for his daughters out of concern for political rivalries from their potential husbands; none of Charlemagne's ...
Oct 16, 2022 · Charlemagne or Charles the Great (also called Charles I) was a medieval ruler - the emperor of most of the Western Europe. He was one of the most famous and powerful leaders to ever reign over Europe and is termed as ‘Father of Europe’ by some historians. During his reign, he brought into force many laws in order to keep the society well ...
