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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation). Charlemagne A denarius of Charlemagne dated c. 812–814 with the inscription KAROLVS IMP AVG (Karolus Imperator Augustus) King of the Franks Reign 9 October 768 – 28 January 814 Coronation ...
Date of imperial coronation Date of death Contemporary coin or seal Charlemagne: 25 December 800 28 January 814 Louis the Pious: 1st: 11 September 813 [53] 2nd: 5 October 816 20 June 840 Lothair I: 5 April 823 29 September 855 Louis II: 1st: Easter 850 2nd: 18 May 872 12 August 875 Charles the Bald: 29 December 875 6 October 877 Charles the Fat ...
The Massacre of Verden was an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons in October 782. Charlemagne claimed suzerainty over Saxony and in 772 destroyed the Irminsul , an important object in Saxon paganism , during his intermittent thirty-year campaign to Christianize the Saxons.
Despite the efforts of royal surgeons Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius, the court doctors ultimately "advocated a wait-and-see strategy"; [15] as a result, the king's untreated eye and brain damage led to his death by sepsis ten days later. [16] His death played a significant role in the decline of jousting as a sport, particularly in France ...
Charles' place of death and burial are unknown. [42] In the wake of these deaths, Charlemagne declared Pepin's son Bernard ruler of Italy, and his own only surviving son Louis as heir to the rest of the empire. [43] Louis was crowned as emperor in 813, and would fully succeed Charlemagne upon his death in 814. [44]
The legend has them both dying in 778, when Charlemagne was still young and a generation before he would be crowned Emperor. Charlemagne's insignia of power were not to be carried on the battlefield. The Imperial Crown, in any case, was not created until more than a century after Charlemagne's death. As for the scepter, it dates from the 14th ...
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Charles the Fat (839 – 13 January 888) was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire [a] from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, and a great-grandson of Charlemagne.