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Charlemagne Emperor Of The HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE  Jul 8, 2016 ... In 768 he and his brother Carloman inherited the Frankish kingdom (most of present-day France and a part of western Germany) from their father Pepin The Shore . ... Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, describes him as 6'3.5 , short neck, with a slight paunch in ..... Einhard says of the early life of Charles:
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Einhard - AHS History  He finally left the royal household in 830 and retired to a rural location ... the language of his Life of Augustus, Life of Charlemagne. .... In solemn assembly the Franks appointed them kings on condition that they share the realm equally, Charles ..... when Charles inherited it from his father Pepin, was almost doubled in size.
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iii REX FRANCORUM ET REX ANGUL-SAXONUM: A ...  Much more information is available on the life of Einhard than on that of Asser. .... Einhard composed the biography of Charlemagne after the death of the ruler, therefore the .... Einhard says that he owes his great king proper praise, and that requires Ciceronian ..... 20 from his father Pepin, that he nearly doubled its size.
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'Those same cursed Saracens': Charlemagne's campaigns in the ...  In the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious, Charlemagne decides to brave 'the ... The long Saxon wars are explicitly characterised in religious terms.24 Einhard says of the ... read it.39 Alcuin's comment to his king in connection to this affair, that he had .... Letters to Frankish rulers from popes from Gregory III to Hadrian I are...
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JEOPARDY! Game - February 3, 2004  (13) Einhard's "Life of" this Frankish ruler says he almost doubled the size of the realm his father Pepin left him. $600 - Marianne. (8) In 1957 the New York...
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Louis the Pious - Wikipedia  Louis the Pious (778  20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781. He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor (as Louis I) with his father, Charlemagne, of the Holy Roman Empire from 813. ... As emperor he included his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin, and Louis, in the...
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Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne - Internet History Sourcebooks  The Monk of Saint Gall: The Life of Charlemagne ... and literature for a man to commit his thoughts to writing without having the ability either to ... But although, to all outward appearance, it ended with him, it had long since been devoid ... At the time of Childeric's deposition, Pepin, the father of King Charles, held this office of...
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Carloman I, King of the Franks - Geni  Aug 10, 2016 ... Son of Ppin III, King of the Franks and Bertha Broadfoot of Laon, Queen of the Franks ... In 770, his mother Bertrada began implementing her great strategy. ... married Desiderata, the daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius,...
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Pepin the Short - New World Encyclopedia  His father was Charles Martel, mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and his ... were short in those days, and Pepin wanted family continuity, the Pope also ... Pepin's first major act was to go to war against the Lombard king Aistulf, who had a ... the so-called Donation of Pepin, whereby the Papal States was founded.
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Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne - World History International  In Charles, the son of Pepin the Short, later known as Charlemagne, or ... Holy Roman Empire restored the Western Empire, extinct since 476, he welded ..... anagram: "Pope Adrian to his most excellent son, Charlemagne, king" (Domino ...... by him as advisers to his son Pepin and Louis in Italy and Aquitaine, or sent.
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Pepin (c.580 - c.639) - Genealogy - Geni  4 days ago ... Father of Saint Beggue of Austrasia; Grimoald I, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia .... Pepin and Arnulf's successor as chief counsellor to the king, Cunibert, .... From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page on Merovingian nobility: ..... III (aka Pepin Le Bref or the Short) and Carloman as the Mayors of the...
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Donation of Pepin - Wikipedia  The Donation of Pepin in 756 provided a legal basis for the erection of the Papal States, which ... When this failed, Stephen sent envoys to Pepin the Short, king of the Franks, with a ... On 28 July 754 Pope Stephen anointed Pepin, as well as his two sons ... The Donations made the Pope for the first time as a temporal ruler.
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Louis the Pious - Wikipedia  Louis the Pious (778  20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781. He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor (as Louis I) with his father, Charlemagne, of the Holy Roman Empire from 813. As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became .... He also employed Benedict of Aniane (the Second Benedict), a Septimanian...
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Ethelbert - English Monarchs  Ethelbert, the second surviving son of Ethelwulf and Osburh, a Jutish princess, ... first King of the English, he succeeded his brother Ethelbald on 20th December, 860. ... of Kent, the traditional title given to the early heirs to the throne of Wessex. ... A huge Viking army landed in East Anglia in 865, the Great Heathen Army,...
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Charlemagne - Christian History Institute  tion the gift; Charlemagne's small and far-away king- dom was of ... He liked to take his whole family with him on his travels and his sons on military campaigns.
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Pepin the Short - Wikipedia  Pepin the Short was the King of the Franks from 751 until his death. He was the first of the ... The decision was not supported by all members of the Carolingian family and Pepin had to .... Waifer appears to have confiscated Church lands, maybe distributing them among his troops. .... [show]. v  t  e  France topics  History...
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THE HISTORY OF EUROPE & THE CHURCH Part Four ...  The Franks earlier had settled along the Rhine after migrating up the Danube River. It will be under Frankish tutelage that the western leg of the Roman Empire will ... Pepin is now "God's anointed" and the Merovingian king Childeric III is deposed and imprisoned. .... In the spring of 799, Pope Leo is accused of misconduct.
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Portrait of Charlemagne by Durer  Becoming King of the Franks in 768 following the death of his father, Charlemagne was ..... Odo also had to pay the price of incorporation into Charles's kingdom, .... Frankish authority and devastated the valley of the Elbe, forcing a tribute on them. .... [48] During the 790s, when Charlemagne campaigned against the Avars,...
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Charles Martel - Wikipedia  Charles Martel (c. 686  22 October 741) was a Frankish statesman and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death. The son of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal and a noblewoman ..... Had Charles Martel suffered at Tours-Poitiers the fate of King Roderick at the...
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Ppin III, King of the Franks - Geni  Oct 13, 2016 ... Pepin The Short King of the Franks in FamilySearch Family Tree .... Pepin or Pippin (714  24 September 768), called the Short, and often known as .... the infrastructure (feudalism) that would prove the backbone of medieval Europe. ... Her father, Charibert, was the son of Pepin II's brother, Martin of Laon.
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Famous Men of the Middle Ages: Charles Martel, 714-741 A.D. And ...  They intended to conquer the land of the Franks next, and then all Europe. ... So long as the king was under age the mayor of the palace acted as chief ... Seated on a magnificent throne, he saluted the assemblage and made a short speech. ... PEPIN died in 714 A.D., and his son Charles, who was twenty-five years old at...