The German researchers say the 94 bones and bone fragments are from a tall, thin, older man, and their dimensions match descriptions of Charlemagne, who was unusually tall for the period at 6 feet ...

Charlemagne's first campaign came at the age of 27, when the Pope sought his aid in repelling the Lombards of Italy. He conquered them in the field and took the crown of Lombardy as his own.

In 1915 Kaiser Wilhelm II made a copy of a magnificent imperial crown mistakenly associated with Charlemagne and placed it in Aachen. In 1938 Adolf Hitler ceremonially brought the original crown ...

It is a cold winter’s morning and a crowd of visitors are staring up at Charlemagne’s statue ... with a golden crown upon his head. He seems to be gazing out over Switzerland´s financial ...

Charlemagne’s father ... and only realized what was happening when the pope put the imperial crown on his head. Since the crowning was advantageous to both parties, it’s likely there was ...

On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish king Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Rome after being assaulted ...