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| Birth: | 2 Apr 0742 in Ingelheim-am-Rhein, Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
| Death: | 28 Jan 0814 in Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia |
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| Father: | Pepin III "The Short" Martel , King of the Franks ** b. 0714 in Jupilles, Pays De La Loire, , France |
| Mother: | Bertha (Bertrada), Countess of Laon , Queen of The Franks ** b. About 0725 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France |
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| Burial: Aachen Cathedral, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany |
| LDS Baptism: 12 Apr 1904 SLAKE |
| LDS Endowment: 21 Jan 1927 SLAKE |
| LDS Sealing Child: 26 May 1955 ALBER |
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| Himiltrude, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. 0742 in Aachen or Aix-le-Chapelle, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany
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| Marriage: | ABT 0760 in Germany |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 10 Nov 1953 |
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 Pepin "the Hunchback" of Germany ** b. About 0769 in Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
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| Desiderata ( Gerperga) de Lombardy , Empress of the Holy Roman Empire ** (Wife) b. About 0750 in Lombardy, Italy
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| Marriage: | 0768 in Rheinland, Preussen |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 1 Dec 1992 |
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| Hildegarde de Swabia , Empress of The Holy Roman Empire ** (Wife) b. 0758 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| Marriage: | ABT 0771 in Aachen,Rhineland,Prussia |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 8 Apr 1936 |
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 Rotrude, Princess of Germany b. About 0775 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Bertha, Princess of The Holy Roman Empire ** b. 0776 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
- Louis I "The Pious", King of France , Emperor of The Holy Roman Empire ** b. 16 Aug 0778 in Chasseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne near Poitiers, Aquitaine, France
- Pepin Carloman , King of Italy ** b. Before 12 Apr 0781 in FRANCE
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| Fastrada of France (Wife) b. 0765 in Lower Saxony (France)
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| Marriage: | 0784 in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Preussen |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 23 Jun 1955 |
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| Luttgarde, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. About 0776 in Allemania
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| Marriage: | 0794 |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 10 Nov 1953 |
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| Gerswinda, Concubine Charlemagne I of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. About 0768 in Old Saxony, Germany
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| Marriage: | no marriage in Prob Germany |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 10 Nov 1953 |
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| Maldegrade (Hathalgard), Concubine to Charlemagne I of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. About 0766 in Aachen,Rhineland,Prussia
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- Rotrude Abbesse of Farmoutier Princess of the Holy Roman Empire ** b. 0775 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Preussen
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| Regina (Reginopycrha), Concubine Charlemagne I of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. 0770 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
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- Hugo le Abbe "Abbot of Quentin" "The Bastard", of The Holy Roman Empire ** b. 0794 in Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia
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| Mrs-Charlemangne, Concubine to Charlemagne I of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. About 0776 in Aachen or Aix-le-Chapelle,Nordrhein-Westfalen,Germany
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| Adbelahide (Adelinde), Concubine to Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire **- (Wife) b. About 0785 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
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- Thierry "The Monk" of the Holy Roman Empire -** b. About 0810 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
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| Ethelind, Concubine to Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire (Wife) b. About 0795 in Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia, now, Germany
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| Himiltrude of Prussia - (Wife) b. 0746 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
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- Aupais (Alpis or Alpais) Carolingian of France , Princess of the Holy Roman Empire ** b. About 0765 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Preussen
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Personal appearance of Charlemagne.
Charlemagne's lifetime exists, his personal appearance is known from a good description by Ei nhard, author of the biographical Vita Caroli Magni.
Charles was large and strong, and of lofty stature, though not disproportionately tall (his h eight is well known to have been seven times the length of his foot); the upper part of his head was round, his eyes very large and animated, nose a little long, hair fair, and face laughing and merry. Thus his appearance was always stately and dignified, whether he was standing or sitting; although his neck was thick and somewhat short, and his belly rather prominent; but the symmetry of the rest of his body concealed these defects. His gait was firm, his whole carriage manly, and his voice clear, but not so strong as his size led one to expect.
He was said to be 6ft 4in tall.
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Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, CAROLINGIAN king of the FRANKS, came to rule over most o f Europe and assumed (800) the title of Roman emperor. He is sometimes regarded as the founder of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. 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 SHORT. The entire kingdom passed to Charlemagne when Carloman died in 771. He inherited great wealth and a strong military organization from his father and brother. He used these assets to double the territory under Carolingian control. In 772 he opened his offensive against the SAXONS, and for more than three decades he pursued a ruthless policy aimed at subjugating them and converting them to Christianity. Almost every year Charlemagne attacked one or another region of Saxon territory. --4,500 Saxons were executed on a single day in 782--and deportations were used to discourage the stubborn. The Saxons proved to be a far more difficult enemy than any of the other peoples subjugated by Charlemagne. For example, the LOMBARDS were conquered in a single extended campaign 773-74), after which Charlemagne assumed the title "king of the Lombards." In 788 he absorbed the duchy of Bavaria, and soon thereafter he launched an offensive against the AVAR empire. The Avars succumbed within a decade, yielding Charlemagne a vast hoard of gold and silver. After one disastrous campaign (778) against the Muslims in Spain, Charlemagne left the southwestern front to his son Louis, (later Emperor LOUIS I) who, with the help of local Christian rulers, conquered Barcelona in 801 and controlled much of Catalonia by 814. On Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne accepted the title of emperor and was crowned by Pope LEO III. For several years after he regarded the imperial title of being of little value. Moreover, he intended to divide his lands and titles among his sons, as was the Frankish custom. At his death on Jan. 28, 814, however, only one son, Louis, survived; Louis therefore assumed control of the entire Frankish empire.
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1. Charlemagne, in Latin Carolus Magnus (Charles the Great) (742-814), king of the Franks (76 8-814) and Emperor of the Romans (800-14), who led his Frankish armies to victory over numerous other peoples and established his rule in most of western and central Europe. He was the best-known and most influential king in Europe in the Middle Ages. Early Years Charlemagne was born probably in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), on April 2, 742, the son of the Frankish king Pepin the Short and the grandson of Charles Martel. In 751 Pepin dethroned the last Merovingian king and assumed the royal title himself. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II in 754. Besides anointing Pepin, Pope Stephen anointed both Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman. Within the year Pepin invaded Italy to protect the pope against the Lombards, and in 756 he again had to rush to the pope's aid. From 760 on, Pepin's main military efforts went into the conquest of Aquitaine, the lands south of the Loire River. Charlemagne accompanied his father on most of these expeditions. Campaigns When Pepin died in 768, the rule of his realms was to be shared between his two sons. Charlemagne sought an alliance with the Lombards by marrying (770) the daughter of their king, Desiderius (reigned 757-774). In 771 Carloman died suddenly. Charlemagne then seized his territories, but Carloman's heirs took refuge at the court of Desiderius. By that time Charlemagne had repudiated his wife, and Desiderius was no longer friendly. In 772, when Pope Adrian I appealed to Charlemagne for help against Desiderius, the Frankish king invaded Italy, deposed his erstwhile father-in-law (774), and himself assumed the royal title. He then journeyed to Rome and reaffirmed his father's promise to protect papal lands. As early as 772 Charlemagne had fought onslaughts of the heathen Saxons on his lands. Buoyed by his Italian success, he now (775) embarked on a campaign to conquer and Christianize them. That campaign had some initial success but was to drag on for 30 years, in which time he conducted many other campaigns as well. He fought in Spain in 778; on the return trip his rear guard, led by Roland, was ambushed, a story immortalized in The Song of Roland. In 788 he subjected the Bavarians to his rule, and between 791 and 796 Charlemagne's armies conquered the empire of the Avars (corresponding roughly to modern Hungary and Austria). Coronation Having thus established Frankish rule over so many other peoples, Charlemagne had in fact built an empire and become an emperor. It remained only for him to add the title. On Christmas Day, in 800, Charlemagne knelt to pray in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope Leo III then placed a crown upon his head, and the people assembled in the church acclaimed him the great, pacific emperor of the Romans. Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard, reported that the king was surprised by this coronation and that had he known it was going to happen, he would not have gone into the church that day. This report has led to much speculation by historians. Charlemagne probably desired and expected to get the imperial title and he subsequently used it. In 813 he designated his sole surviving son, Louis, as his successor, and personally crowned him. Administration Charlemagne established a more permanent royal capital than had any of his predecessors. His favorite residence from 794 on was at Aix-la-Chapelle. He had a church and a palace constructed there, based in part on architectural borrowings from Ravenna and Rome. At his court he gathered scholars from all over Europe, the most famous being the English cleric Alcuin of York, whom he placed in charge of the palace school. Administration of the empire was entrusted to some 250 royal administrators called counts. Charlemagne issued hundreds of decrees, called capitularies, dealing with a broad range of topics from judicial and military matters to monasteries, education, and the management of royal estates. The empire did not expand after 800; indeed, already in the 790s the seacoasts and river valleys experienced the first, dreaded visits of the Vikings. Charlemagne ordered a special watch against them in every harbor, but with little effect. He died before their full, destructive force was unleashed on the empire. Evaluation Charlemagne is important not only for the number of his victories and the size of his empire, but for the special blend of tradition and innovation that he represented. On the one hand, he was a traditional Germanic warrior, who spent most of his adult life fighting. In the Saxon campaigns he imposed baptism by the sword, and he retaliated against rebels with merciless slaughter. On the other hand, he placed his immense power and prestige at the service of Christian doctrine, the monastic life, the teaching of Latin, the copying of books, and the rule of law. His life, held up as a model to most later kings, thus embodied the fusion of Germanic, Roman, and Christian cultures that became the basis of European civilization. Contributed by: Lester K. Little Further Reading "Charlemagne," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second History of,
Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the West, was born 2 April, 742, probably a t Aix-La-Chapelle. Charlemagne married Hildegarde, the daughter of a noble family in Suabia. In 771 Carloman died, and Charlemagne was elected to the vacant throne. He reigned over France, half of Germany and four-fifths of Italy. Attacked with pleurisy he died after a short illness, in the seventy-second year of his age, and the fourth-seventh of his reigned, 28 January 814. Some years later Charlemagne was canonized by the church. His fourth child was pepin. (Magna Charta by John S Wurts, chap 29,pg 182) Charlemagne, the greatest figure of the Middle Ages, by his wife Hildegarde of Suabia, born 757, died 30 April 782, had a son, Louis I. (Magna Charta by John S Wurts, chap 27, pg 167) Charlemagne married in 771 Hildegarde, born 757, died 30 April 782. She was fair, wise and good, the daughter of Childebrand, Duke of Suabia. They were the parents of eleven children. The order of the births is unknown. Charles, King of Germany, died 811. Pepin, King of Lombardy and Italy, born 776, died 810, married Bertha, daughter of William, Count of Toulouse, pg 182. Louis I, the Debonaire, called also the Pious, King of Germany, France and Italy, died 840, married first Ermengarde, died 818, daughter of Ingram, Count of Hasbania, and second Judith the Fair, died 843, daughter of Welphus, Count of Altorf, pg 167, 184, and 188. Rotrudis Bertha, born 779, died 853, wife of Angilbert and mother of Mithardus, the Historian, pg 189. Gisela, a nun. Heldecardis. Adelheoda. Bellinandra. Gertruda. Emma, wife of Eginherd, her father's Secretary. Charlemagne pages 178 and 420, one of the Nine Worthies. (Magna Charta by John S Wurts,chap 81, pg 662)
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Third History;
England is about to lose one of the last traces of the Emperor Charles the Great---Charlemagn e---for it was he who established the system of reckoning in pounds, shillings and pence. He will also be remembered as the white-haired old king in the Song of Roland; but he was neither an economist nor the rather feckless character of the Song, being rather one of the ideal examples in European history of the man of action, a type that always spells danger. He was born in 742 to Pepin the Short, who was Mayor of the Palace of Childeric III, the last of an ever degenerating line of Merovingian kings. In 751, with the support of the Pope, Pepin cut off Childeric's long hair, the mark of his kingship, and sent him to a monastery, arrogating to himself the royal power. He was an active ruler, imposing peace on his border-lands, and twice descending on Italy to protect the Pope from the Lombards, giving to him the duchy of Rome as his own state in the bargain. In 768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman succeeded to the joint rule of the Franks, but three years later Carloman died, and Charlemagne ruled supreme. He was as active as his father in defending and expanding his territories. In 773, when the Lombards were again putting pressure on the Pope, he crossed the Alps with astonishing speed and defeated the Lombards absolutely, putting their king in a monastery (now a family habit) and assuming the 'Iron' Crown of Lombardy himself. He now began a systematic campaign to conquer the Saxons, and ten years of the most bitter fighting ensued. The Saxons discovered an able leader in Widukind, and in 782, managed to wipe out a substantial army of Franks. Charlemagne had 4,500 Saxons beheaded at Verden in retribution, and went on to celebrate 'The Nativity of Our Lord and Easter as he was wont to do,' says Einhard, his biographer. It took nearly three years to find Widukind, and he was then baptized---a clear declaration of submission; the rest of the Saxons gave little trouble in taking baptism, or obeying their new Frankish masters---they remembered Verden. A feudal vassal of Charlemagne who should have learned a lesson from this was Duke Tassilo of Bavaria, but he preferred to behave as if he were independent of his overlord. Charlemagne gave him one chance to reform, but then found that he was plotting with his enemies, so in 788 he too was put into a monastery, and Bavaria was incorporated into the fast growing empire. In Spain he was not so successful: he had been forced to call off his invasion in 778, for his troops were needed elsewhere, and anyway the Muslims turned out to be not as disunited as he had been told; it was in this retreat that Roland died. But in 793 the Muslims attacked over his borders, so he set up an enclave on the southern side of the Pyrenees to guard the area. He now turned his attention to the Avars, relations of the Huns, who lived in the area of the middle Danube, and were phenomenally rich with tribute-money they had wrung from the Byzantine Emperors. Peaceful negotiations had failed to keep them from raiding Charlemagne's lands, and so he set out to conquer them. It was as hard a war as that against the Saxons, lasting from 791-9, and Charlemagne was wise to distribute the loot he gained from it to his war-weary people instead of keeping it for himself. Since 476 there had been no Emperor in the West, and until recently the Popes had looked to the Byzantine Emperors for protection. In 800 the Pope was set upon and deposed, and Charlemagne had to go do to Rome to restore him. On Christmas Day of that year he was praying in St. Peter's when the Pope came up and crowned him as Emperor, taking him 'unawares.' Historians wrangle over the coronation of Charlemagne, and the results of their searches read like detective stories. Suffice it to say that Charlemagne must have known what was going to happen, but he was rather disturbed about the whole thing afterwards; possibly he was upset at not having the fiat of the Emperor of the East, though a woman was reigning there at the time, possibly he felt the Pope had arrogated to himself too great a part in the coronation. Certainly he kept a very healthy respect for the Byzantine Empire, though he was not a man to fear another's power: he had good relations with Haroun-al-Rashid, the Caliph of Baghdad, who sent him a white elephant, and arranged protection for pilgrims visiting Jerusalem, in the heart of Muslim territory. In a less exciting area he developed good relations also with the various Anglo-Saxons states in England; and the first commercial treaty of which we have a record in English history is a letter from Charlemagne to Offa of Mercia, then the central Anglo-Saxon state, requesting more short cloaks, but not as short as the last batch, for when one was forced by the call of nature to get off one's horse, the cloak turned out to be a very draughty affair. Einhard's biography gives us a fine picture of Charlemagne in the prime of his life: a large pleasant looking man, with rather a weak voice, who loved all forms of exercise, but excelled in swimming. He wore the ordinary dress of his nation, objecting strongly to having to dress in Roman fashion on the two occasions Popes requested it to impress the citizens of Rome. He ate and drank moderately, but had a passion for roast meat. He loved to hear music and to listen to readings from St. Augustine's City of God; he also delighted in the old songs of his nation, which his priggish son had destroyed after his death, because they were pagan. He plainly respected learning, and loved to be surrounded by learned people, but he probably didn't get very far in his own learning; he used to keep a copy-book under his pillow (he suffered from insomnia) but he never really learned to write. His palace at Aachen was the Versailles of the ninth century, beautiful and impressive, though it is a typically homely touch that he settled on this site because the swimming was good there, with natural hot springs to warm the water. The pictorial arts flourished under him, especially in the decoration of books, which themselves were written in the fine minuscule hand which was developed in his reign, and was to form the basis of the Renaissance italic hand. Schools were built up, modelled on the palace school, which was more of a university in that it served as a place for distinguished scholars to work, and a training ground for the sons of the nobility. Alcuin was called from England, and Peter of Pisa came, along with the best minds of the age. Monasteries built up huge libraries, and in their scriptoria multiple copies were made. By these means the riches of literature of the ancient world were preserved for the modern, and not even the destructive power of the Norsemen could entirely root out the achievement. Although the full effect of this educational revolution was not to be felt until after the death of Charlemagne, when the whole of Europe began to build great edifices of stone, and theologians and philosophers dared to reason, this was truly the Carolingian Renaissance, and owed a tremendous debt to the boundless vision and enthusiasm of Charlemagne himself. In fact, the cultural influences of the Carolingian state were to outlast by far the state itself. Having conquered territories, Charlemagne tended to do little but install Frankish counts there, introduce his elementary form of feudalism, and then occasionally add to the legal system such laws as were necessary. He sent round groups of 'Missi Dominici' to check on the administration of the counts, and held formal assemblies each year, which provided an elementary check on what was happening all over the Empire; but it was only while his dominant personality and military might were at the head of the system that it could work---the whole Empire was ready to spring apart into fragments when this was removed. It lacked the economic organisation necessary for unity, retaining the spirit of self-sufficiency which was the hallmark of medieval regionalism. On his death in 814, his son Louis the Pious succeeded, but on his death in 840 civil war broke out between Louis' sons, and in 843 at Verdun the Empire was divided between the three of them, one taking the western strip, one the eastern and the third taking a central strip right down from the Low Countries to half-way down Italy---Germany was to go a separate way from that of France, the Low Countries and Burgundy were to aim at separate development, and all were to have interest in what became of the Italian domains. It is possible to place too much emphasis on the decisiveness of this treaty for the future history of Western Europe, but even so one should remember that the year before it was made when the two leaders of West and East met to make the preliminary arrangements, the one swore his oath in French and the other in German so that their followers could understand them. The popular names for the rulers who followed in the wake of Charlemagne spell out for us the decline from greatness, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, Louis the Stammerer, Charles the Fat, Charles the Simple. Europe was to be divided, with disastrous results; but nonetheless people remembered the achievement of Charlemagne through the long terrible years of war and the terrible attacks from the Norsemen. They created the tradition of the Song of Roland, which was only outdone in popularity by the later re-workings of the predominantly national legends of the Germans and the Celtic lands. Perhaps it was not so bad that Arthur replaced Charlemagne in the end, for his like did not come to Europe again until the days of Napoleon. [Source: Who's Who in the Middle Ages, John Fines, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1995]
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'''Charlemagne''' April 2, 742 --January 28, 814, or ''Charles the Great'', in German languag e|German: ''Karl der GroÃüe'', in Latin: ''Carolus Magnus'', and hence the adjective form 'Carolingian'), was king of the Franks from 771 to 814, nominally King of the Lombards, and Roman Emperor.
Arguably the founder of a Frankish Empire in Western Europe, Charlemagne was the elder son o f Pippin III|Pippin the Short (751-768), the first Carolingian king. Pippin the Short indulged in the monopoly of the coining of money, deciding on the opening and closure of minting shops, the weight, title and the subjects represented.
European coinage began with Pippin the Short who revived the system put in place by the ancie nt Greeks and Romans and kept going by the Eastern Roman Empire (1 libra = 20 solidus|solidi = 240 denarius|denarii).
On the death of Pippin the kingdom was divided between Charlemagne and his brother Carloman , son of Pippin III|Carloman.
Carloman died in 771, leaving Charlemagne with a reunified Frankish kingdom.
In 800, at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor, a title t hat had been out of use in the West since the abdication of Romulus Augustus|Romulus Augustulus in 476.
Pursuing his father's reforms, Charlemagne did away with the monetary system based on the gol d sou.
Both he and king Offa of Mercia took up the system set in place by Pippin. He set up a new st andard, the livre (pound -- both monetary and unit of weight) which was worth 20 sous (as per the solidus, and later the shilling) or 240 deniers (as per the denari, and eventually the penny).
During this period, the livre and the sou were counting units, only the denier was a coin o f the realm.
Charlemagne applied the system to much of the European Continent, and Offa's standard was vol untarily adopted by much of England.
When Charlemagne died in 814, he was buried in his own Aachen Cathedral|Cathedral at Aachen.
He was succeeded by his only son to survive him, Louis the pious|Louis the Pious, after whos e reign the empire was divided between his three surviving sons according to Franks|Frankish tradition.
These three kingdoms would be the foundations of later France and the Holy Roman Empire.
After Charlemagne's death, continental coinage degraded and most of Europe resorted to usin g the continued high quality English coin until about AD 1100.
It is difficult to understand Charlemagne's attitude toward his daughters.
None of them contracted a sacramental marriage.
This may have been an attempt to control the number of potential alliances.
After his death the surviving daughters entered or were forced to enter monasteries.
At least one of them, Bertha, had a recognized relationship, if not a marriage, with Angilbe rt, a member of Charlemagne's court circle.
== Cultural significance =
Charlemagne's reign is often referred to as the Carolingian renaissance|Carolingian Renaissan ce because of the flowering of scholarship, literature, art and architecture.
Most of the surviving works of classical Latin were copied and preserved by Carolingian schol ars.
The pan-European nature of Charlemagne's influence is indicated by the origins of many of th e men who worked for him: Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon; Theodulf, a Visigoths|Visigoth; Paul the Deacon, a Lombards|Lombard; and Angilbert and Einhard, Franks.
Charlemagne enjoyed an important afterlife in European culture.
One of the great medieval literature cycles, the Charlemagne cycle or Matter of France, cente rs around the deeds of Charlemagne's historical commander of the Breton border, Roland, and the [paladins who served as a counterpart to the knights of the Round Table; their tales were first told in the ''chanson de geste|chansons de geste''. Charlemagne himself was accorded sainthood inside the Holy Roman Empire after the 12th Century. He was a model knight as one of the Nine Worthies.
It is frequently claimed by genealogy|genealogists that all people with European ancestry ali ve today are probably descended from Charlemagne.
However, only a small percentage can prove descent from him. Charlemagne's marriage and relat ionship politics and ethics did, however, result in a fairly large number of descendents, all of whom had far better life expectancies than is usually the case for children in that time period. They were married into houses of nobility and as a result of intermarriages many people of noble descend can indeed trace their ancestry back to Charlemagne.
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Title: Directory of Royal Genealogical Data Author: Tompsett, Brian Note: http://www.dcs.hul l.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/
Title: Royal Genealogies: or, The Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes, from A dam to These Times Author: James Anderson, D. D. Publication: London: James Bettenham, 1732. [available in a microform edition] Subtitle: The genealogical tables of emperors, kings and princes, from Adam to these times; in two parts. Royal Genealogies, pages 728-731, Tables CXX, CXXI, CXXII
Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on Page: Charlemagne
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, a dditions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 Page: 50-13
Title:The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968 Page: 13, 171
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