Examples of Charlemagne in the following topics:
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- Charlemagne was the oldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon.
- The ambassadors met at Thionville, and Charlemagne upheld the pope's side.
- Charlemagne built a new camp at Karlstadt.
- Through these conquests Charlemagne united Europe and spread Christianity.
- Shown here, the pope asks Charlemagne for help at a meeting near Rome.
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- Charlemagne reached the height of his power in 800 when he was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day at Old St.
- Charlemagne, advised by scholar Alcuin of York, travelled to Rome in November 800 and held a council on December 1.
- [Pope Leo III and Charlemagne], like their predecessors, held the Roman Empire to be one and indivisible, and proposed by the coronation of [Charlemagne] not to proclaim a severance of the East and West.
- However, Charlemagne made no claim to the Byzantine Empire.
- The title was revived when Otto I was crowned emperor in 962, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne.
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- As emperor, Charlemagne stood out for his many reforms—monetary, governmental, military, cultural, and ecclesiastical.
- Charlemagne had an important role in determining the immediate economic future of Europe.
- Unlike his father, Pepin, and uncle Carloman, Charlemagne expanded the reform program of the church.
- Legally, Charlemagne exercised the bannum, the right to rule and command, over all of his territories.
- The Frankish kingdom was subdivided by Charlemagne into three separate areas to make administration easier.
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- In 800, Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans, reviving the title in Western Europe after more than three centuries.
- The title was revived again in 962 when Otto I was crowned emperor, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne and beginning a continuous existence of the empire for over eight centuries.
- Some historians refer to the coronation of Charlemagne as the origin of the empire, while others prefer the coronation of Otto I as its beginning.
- After Charlemagne died in 814, the imperial crown was disputed among the Carolingian rulers of Western Francia and Eastern Francia, with first the western king (Charles the Bald) and then the eastern (Charles the Fat) attaining the prize.
- Otto's coronation as emperor marked the German kings as successors to the empire of Charlemagne, which through the concept of translatio imperii also made them consider themselves successors to Ancient Rome.
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- The dynasty reached its peak with the crowning of Charlemagne as the first emperor in the west in over three centuries.
- In 813, Charlemagne called Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine and his only surviving legitimate son, to his court.
- There Charlemagne crowned his son with his own hands as co-emperor and sent him back to Aquitaine.
- Charlemagne, who was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III at Rome in 800, was the greatest Carolingian monarch.
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- She negotiated a marriage between her son Constantine and Rotrude, a daughter of Charlemagne by his third wife Hildegard.
- During this time Charlemagne was at war with the Saxons, and would later become the new king of the Franks.
- In 800, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day.
- The clergy and nobles attending the ceremony proclaimed Charlemagne as "Emperor of the Roman Empire."
- However, Charlemagne made no claim to the Byzantine Empire.
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- Roland (right) receives the sword, Durandal, from the hands of Charlemagne (left).
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- Charles's grandson, Charlemagne, extended the Frankish realms to include much of the West, and became the first emperor in the West since the fall of Rome.
- Pepin died in 768 and was succeeded by his sons Charlemagne and Carloman.
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- Monumental Constantinian forms were used at the court of Charlemagne to suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal.
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- This process of centralization began with Charlemagne (768-814) King of the Franks and later (800-814), Holy Roman Emperor.