Charlemagne

Louis the German, Charles the Bald, and Lothar

Charlemagne had a bunch of children, including several sons. His successor was his son, Louis the Pious.

Charlemagne was initially King of the West Franks. Then, when his brother Carloman, King of the East Franks, died, Charlemagne became King of the Franks. In 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Roman People by Pope Leo III.

Today, historians call Charlemagne's empire the Carolingian Empire in order to distinguish it from all the other empires that called themselves the Empire of the Roman People, including the ancient Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire. For more information, please use the link to the related question on this below.

He was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He temporarily united Europe.

A strong and efficient government.

he was very successful, educated, cared about his children and many more!!!!!

Charlemagne was born in the Kingdom of the Franks, which was mostly in what are now parts of France and Germany. He was crowned king, and extended his kingdom greatly, adding others to it, including Saxony, the Kingdom of Lombardy, and an area called the Spanish March, in northern Spain. In the end, he ruled nearly all of modern France, Germany, and Austria, all of Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, the northern half of Italy and parts of other countries. After he died, his empire was divided, and important parts became the Kingdom of France, and the Holy Roman Empire (Germany).

Charlemagne is from French, and means Charles the Great. Charlemagne's name, at the time of his life, was represented in Latin as Carolus. His name comes form a Germanic word that means "free man," and is represented in English by the word "churl" and the German word "Kerl," which means fellow. He was called "the great" because of his achievements and stature as a monarch.

The Carolingian Renaissance, as Charlemagne's renaissance was called, was a time of great increase in education, the arts, architecture, law, religion, and just about all other cultural life in Western Europe. It was a period that included the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, roughly the second half of the 8th century and the first half of the 9th.

There is a link below to an article on the Carolingian Renaissance.

The capital was Aix-la-Chapelle.

Chalemagne was emperor from 768-814 AD

Charlemagne's capital was Aachen, which is also known as Aix-la-Chapelle.

Charlemagne's German - and all other - lands were inherited by his only surviving son, Louis.

345 - 678 AD

Aix-la-Chapelle

LOADS OF STUFF! he put down rebellions if Aquitaine, the Kingdom of Lombardy, Bavaria, the Avars (now austria and hungary) and after aboutt 30 years of unrest and rebellions Saxony. Hope that was helpful...

Berthas

emperor Louis I "the pious" of roman empire

king pepin of Italy

Aupais

Circa 742 to 28 Jan 814 AD, you do the math.

Charlemagne was crowned as King of the Franks in 768. More importantly, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans (or Emperor of the West) on December 25, 800.

Charlemagne is believed to have been born about the year 742. He became King of the Franks in 768, and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire in 800. He died in 814.

He was the son of King Pepin the Short. When he became King of the Franks, his country already occupied nearly all of modern France, all of Belgium and the Netherlands, most of Switzerland, and large areas of Germany. To this he added Saxony, Bavaria, large parts of Austria, the Kingdom of Lombardy, which was all of northern Italy, and an area of Spain called the Spanish March, which was the area of Spain in the Pyrenees along the French border. His country was the largest in the history of Western Europe after the fall of the West Roman Empire.

On December 25, 800, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by pope Leo III. Charlemagne claimed to have been surprised by this, and in some respects the event is a mystery. We know it happened, but we do not really know why or what exactly was intended. The Empire of the Romans still existed as what we call the Byzantine Empire. Pope Leo may have intended to revive the West Roman Empire, but there are many suggestions as to his real purpose. Today, Charlemagne's empire is called the Carolingian Empire, to distinguish it from the ancient Roman Empire, the medieval Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), and the Holy Roman Empire (Germany). Charlemagne's empire is ancestral to the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire.

Charlemagne revived learning in Western Europe by inviting scholars to his court, seeing that his nobles and children were educated, including both his sons and his daughters. He opened schools and had a stated intention of having all freemen of his empire become literate, a practice which was already in place in the Byzantine Empire. His scholars were all to write in a unified dialect of medieval Latin, which was important because prior to this the Latin dialects had diverged to the point of mutual incomprehensibility.

Charlemagne codified laws, and fostered scholarship by theologians. He protected the Church, and especially the popes. He made large numbers of his conquered enemies convert from paganism to Christianity. He fostered the arts and architecture. He stabilized currency, and established an old Roman system based on the denarius, a silver coin about the size of a US dime or a UK five pence; in this system, twelve denarii (pence) made a solidus (shilling), and twenty solidi made a pound. The system was widely used in Europe, and remained in the UK until recently.

Charlemagne was a member of what is called the Carolingian dynasty of Frankish kings and emperors. His reign was a defining time in what is called the Carolingian Renaissance. He has been considered by many people an ideal ruler, and a model for other rulers.

power and war were his main interests

from old age