Charlemagne

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We do not have a date for the birth of Charlemagne, but he is thought to have been 25 or 26 when he was crowned king. The date given for the coronation is October 9, 768.

He united most of europe

rule local legions

No, Charlemagne founded the Carolingian Empire.

most of the time at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen in German)

Charlemagne increased the size of the Frankish kingdom to include most of the area of present France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland, and parts of Austria, Italy, and Spain. It was the largest country in Western Europe since the Roman Empire, and much larger than any there today. On December 25, 800, Pope Leo III crowned him Emperor of the Romans, in an effort to reestablish the West Roman Empire. His country did not survive him for long, however, as it was divided among his grandsons. Nevertheless, the countries they began included France and the Holy Roman Empire.

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Charlemagne was not crowned emperor of the Romans. He was crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor, which had nothing to do with ancient Rome. The so-called Holy Roman Empire was a Germanic kingdom of the Middle Ages.

Historically, we call people emperors of the Roman Empire if the Roman Senate endorsed them as such, or if an emperor approved by the Senate did so, making them co-emperors, and they subsequently ruled on their own. Anyone else who claimed independently to be the emperor is considered a claimant or usurper. The last known act of the Senate of the West Roman Empire took place in the year 603 AD, 197 years before Charlemagne was crowned emperor.

He might be considered a legitimate Roman Emperor, if he had been accepted by Empress Irene of the Byzantine Empire, which was what remained of the Roman Empire at the time.

From a certain point of view, all this is nonsense. If the Holy Roman Empire were still operating, our position on whether Charlemagne was legally Emperor of the Romans would almost certainly be different.

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He was not renamed. In English, his name was Charles. The title Great was added, so he is added Charles the Great. In French, it became Charlemagne, which means the same thing, and is used in English commonly. Same Thing.

Emperor at most holy emperor

Charlemagne's most disappointing military campaign came against the?

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Charlemagne was King of the Franks, an Empire which incorporated much of Europe. Born 742 died 814

Charlemagne was a professional monarch. He started his career by being a king, but was unexpectedly promoted to emperor in 800 AD. He did not want the promotion, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Charlemagne is said always to have carried a sword. Also his favorite sword is said to have been one called Joyeuse. Joyeuse is mentioned in literature many times, and remained important as a relic of Charlemagne's life. I have not seen a reason it was so important to Charlemagne, but the is a link to an article on it below.

Charlemagne promoted Christianity because he was Christian and believed God was the only God.

Through many wars, power, threats and having men who did what he wanted. He was very strong during his rule and to go against him meant death.

Charlemagne built the Kingdom of the Franks into the largest empire in the history of medieval Europe. He fostered education, built schools, and issued new, and rather wise, legal codes. He protected the Church and the popes, and he benefited his people.

Charlemenge is the Roman emperor who officially Christianized the empire.

years of feudalism in France

Charlemagne became King of the Franks in 768. During the time he was king he brought nearly all the territories of modern France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, and much of the Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy under the control of a unified government. It was the most powerful kingdom in Europe. He was crowned Emperor of the West in 800, and he died in 814. Two great nations, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, both traced their beginnings to his empire.

Charlemagne also established higher cultural standards, bringing in teachers to teach the members of nobility to read. His leadership in this respect started a slow but steady growth of literacy and education that lasted into the Renaissance.

Yes. Charlemagne was born in the Frankish kingdom circa 742 AD and died in 814 AD.

It is split in half and the eagle represents Rome

The following is the plot of the Song of Roland from Wikipedia:

"Charlemagne's army is fighting the Muslims inSpain. The last city standing is Saragossa, held by the Muslim king Marsilla. Threatened by the might of Charlemagne's army of Franks, Marsilla sends out messengers to Charlemagne, promising treasure and Marsilla's conversion to Christianity if the Franks will go back to France. Charlemagne and his men, tired of fighting, accept his peace offer and select a messenger to Marsilla's court. Protagonist Roland nominates his stepfather Ganelon as messenger. Ganelon, who fears to be murdered by the enemy and accuses Roland of intending this, takes revenge by informing the Saracens of a way to ambush the rear guard of Charlemagne's army, led by Roland, as the Franks re-enter Spain through the mountain passes.

As Ganelon predicted, Roland leads the rear guard, with the wise and moderate Oliver and the fierce Archbishop Turpin. The Muslims ambush them at Roncesvalles, and the Christians are overwhelmed. Oliver asks Roland to blow his olifant to call for help from the Frankish army; but Roland proudly refuses to do so. The Franks fight well, but are outnumbered, until almost all Roland's men are dead and he knows that Charlemagne's army can no longer save them. Despite this, he blows his olifant to summon revenge, until his temples burst and he dies a martyr's death. Angels take his soul to Paradise.

When Charlemagne and his men reach the battlefield, they find the dead bodies of Roland's men, and pursue the Muslims into the river Ebro, where they drown. Meanwhile Baligant, the powerful emir of Babylon, has arrived in Spain to help Marsilla, and his army encounters that of Charlemagne at Roncesvalles, where the Christians are burying and mourning their dead. Both sides fight valiantly; but when Charlemagne kills Baligant, the Muslim army scatters and flees, and the Franks conquer Saragossa. With Marsilla's wife Bramimonde, Charlemagne and his men ride back to Aix, their capital in France.

The Franks discover Ganelon's betrayal and keep him in chains until his trial, where Ganelon argues that his action was legitimate revenge, not treason. While the council of barons assembled to decide the traitor's fate is initially swayed by this claim, one man, Thierry, argues that, because Roland was serving Charlemagne when Ganelon delivered his revenge on him, Ganelon's action constitutes a betrayal. Ganelon's friend Pinabel challenges Thierry to trial by combat, in which, by divine intervention, Thierry kills Pinabel. The Franks are convinced by this of Ganelon's villainy; wherefore he is torn apart by galloping horses and thirty of his relatives are hanged."