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1 day 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
5 days ago · Early Life and Rise to Power. 01 Born around April 2, 742, Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, making him a key figure in the Carolingian dynasty from a young age. 02 He became king of the Franks in 768, following his father's death. Initially, he co-ruled with his brother Carloman I, but after Carloman's ...
This was largely precipitated by the Holy Roman Emperor attempting to reassert imperial and church authority in the empire, and they very nearly succeeded. The empire very nearly was militarily reconquered by the crown and turned into a modern centralized state. In the end external intervention by other powers put a stop to imperial ambitions.
21 hours ago · Frankish fiscal law; The church. Institutions; Monasticism; Education; Religious discipline and piety; The influence of the church on society and legislation; Merovingian literature and arts; Carolingian literature and arts; The emergence of France. French society in the early Middle Ages; The political history of France (c. 850–1180 ...
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2 days ago · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
1 day ago · Enter Charlemagne (748-814) – his name comes into English from French, Charles le Magne – Charles the Great. He was a grandson of Charles Martel and named after him. He became king of the Franks in 768 and king of the Lombards in 774. Interestingly, history has passed down to us a description of Charlemagne. He was tall, somewhere between 6 ...
4 days ago · Its inhabitants were Christianized in the 3rd and 4th centuries ce and passed under Merovingian Frankish rule in the late 5th century, becoming part of the Frankish kingdom of Neustria.
