Life of Charlemagne

Charlemagne was a great ruler of the Franks. During his reign he engaged in many wars. The first of these wars was the Aquitanian War. This war was actually started by his father but never finished. Charlemagne decided to once again take up this war and bring it to an end. At the end of this war he was induced by the Bishop

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He fought in two of the battles during the Saxon war. He despised wearing the dress from any kind of foreign nations, with the exception of when he wore the Roman tunic at the request of Pope Hadraian. Charlemagne also always brought his sons with him as they went into battle. He obtained more than twice the amount of territory that he originally inherited to rule from his father. The conquests made by Charlemagne were by far some of the biggest in western history. In tradition with the Franks, the boys learned to ride a horse, practice war and the chase, and the girls were to learn cloth-making and such skills. Alucin was Charlemagne’s teacher in rhetoric, dialectics, astronomy, and much more.

Aix-la-Chapelle was Charlemagne’s city built just before 800. However rough the journey, they were still victorious. Charlemagne would also befriend many Kings in these overseas countries so that he might get them to give aid to the Christians living under their rule. With such a name and an honor to be bestowed upon him he could not refuse the title, although this did make many of the Roman emperors mad at Charlemagne. Although Charlemagne engaged in much war he was not looked upon as an evil person, but as a very powerful and kind leader. At Pepin’s death he crowned Pepin’s son as the new king.

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