Between 768 and 814 CE, Charlemagne—also known as Karl or Charles the Great—ruled an empire that spanned most of Western Europe. After years of relentless warfare, he presided over present-day ...

He was the first emperor to rule Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. Though Charlemagne gained no substantial territory, the coronation created a confederation that would last for a ...

In 834, Louis made Hugh the archchancellor, a kind of executive administrator, of the Frankish empire. The son of Charlemagne and an unknown partner, Richbod became abbot of Saint-Riquier near ...

After the break up of the Roman Empire in the late 5th-century, ... Charlemagne became ruler of one of those kingdoms in Germany in A.D. 768 and immediately set about expanding his territory.

What about the idea of the Roman Empire was so inspiring that German kings continued to be crowned as Holy Roman Emperors for a thousand years after Charlemagne’s death? The presentation ends ...

This cathedral is the last surviving relic of the palace of Charlemagne, founder of the Holy Roman Empire and the father of modern Europe. From this palace here in Aachen, Charlemagne ruled an ...