Charlemagne: Difference between revisions

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|alias = Chares I, Karl, Charles the Great, Father of Europe

|occupation = Leader and Founder of the Holy Roman Empire, King of the Franks, Christian Emperor of the West

|hobby = Obtaining power, slaughtering non-Christians, building a culture of Christendom, reading Christian books, horseback riding, swimming, bathing in natural hot springs with his friends and family, and hunting

|goals = Establish a kingdom of Christianity under his rule

|type of villain = Aristocratic Villain

}}'''Charlemagne''', (742 – 814) also known as Karl, Charles I, and Charles the Great, was a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe from 768 to 814 as the first emperor and founder of what would become the Holy Roman Empire. In 771, Charlemagne became king of the Franks, a Germanic tribe in present-day Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and western Germany before embarking on a mission to unite all Germanic peoples into one kingdom, and convert his subjects to Christianity.

Charlemagne was able to halt the political and cultural disintegration of the early Middle Ages and lay the foundation for strong central government north of the Alps. He managed united most of Western Europe for the first time since the classical era of the Roman Empire and united parts of Europe that had never been under Frankish rule. Partially as a result of Charlemagne's activity, northern Europe emerged in the high and late Middle Ages as the dominant economic, political, and cultural force in the West after he stimulated European economic and political life to fostered the cultural revival known as the Carolingian Renaissance. He instituted economic and religious reforms, and was a driving force behind the Carolingian miniscule, a standardized form of writing that later became a basis for modern European printed alphabets despite his own inability to write and difficulty reading. His actions ensured unified Christianity would survive longer than thought possible given the disunited state of Europe.

Charlemagne died in 814, leaving successors who lacked his vision of control and authority, and his empire did not long outlive him.

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