Elyce+-+Charlemagne

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= BackGround := > **ChildHood:** = Education: = that were associated with his fathers court. = Career/Jobs: =
 * [[image:http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcgee411/GHTOUT/c6-charlemagne3.jpg height="332" align="right"]]Charlemagne was born 742 in herstal, wallonia where his father was born.
 * He died January 28, 814. Other cities have been suggested where he was born.
 * The cities that were included are Achen, Duren, and Gauting.
 * In 774, Charles "the Great" or Karolus Magnus, more widely known as Charlemagne, conquered Lombardy and confirmed his father's donation of the Papal States. Charlemagne added Bavaria to his realm, and eventually defeated the Saxons and forced them to convert to Christianity. Charlemagne also waged war in Spain. He was returning from an expedition there in 778 when a mountain people called the Basques ambushed and wiped out his rear.
 * He conquered much of the former western Roman empire.
 * He was the founder of what later became the Holy Roman Empire–and the idea of a distinctly European identity. His contemporaries called him the Father of Europe.
 * In 754 however, he particpated in the ceremony where Pope Stephen II appointed pepin king.
 * Charlemagne also joined pepin on many military campaigne's when he was just alittle kid.
 * Charlemagne hobbies were swimming, and horse riding when he was a kid.
 * He was an important player in the spread of Christianity into Northern Europe, though his methods did not include turning the other cheek. In 785 he ordered the death penalty for any newly conquered Saxon who refused to be baptized (This is roughly the same period when Christendom began to accuse Islam of conversion by the sword.
 * He was the founder of what later became the Holy Roman Empire–and the idea of a distinctly European identity. His contemporaries called him the Father of Europe.
 * He recieved training for leadership by participating in political, social and military activities
 * Charlemagne also improved education and culture by establishing a school at his palace in aachen.
 * This palace attracted the best teachers and students in europe
 * It eduacted clergyman, thus strengthening the church, and trained teachers for schools throughout the empire.
 * Scholars at the schools collected and copied ancient Roman manuscripts, which otherwise would have been lost forever.
 * When his father died his reign was divided between charlemagne and his brother caloman.
 * The rilvary between brother threatned the until of the frankish kingdom. After carloman died in 771 charlemagne took control of the entire Frankish reign.
 * Charlemagne was a warrior king.

= Achievements: = >
 * Charelamagne greatest avhievements, he reunited europe revival of education and he helped laws and economis. (Restored judges and courts)
 * In his government Charlemagne continued and systematized the administrative machinery of his predecessors. He permitted conquered peoples to retain their own laws, which he codified when possible, and he issued many capitaularies (gathered in the Monumeta).
 * Charlemagne's court at Aachen was the center of an intellectual renaissance. The palace school, under the leadership of Alcuin, became famous; numerous schools for children of all classes were also established throughout the empire during Charlemagne's reign.

= Influence on the World : = >
 * Charlemagne was one of Europe's most successful monarchs. He was king of the Franks in 768 CE. His father, Pepin the Short, ruled before him, and his grandfather - Charles Martel - ruled before that. These two men were good rulers, but Charlemagne was a far more **//impressive//** king.
 * The Franks were legendary fighters. Using the strength and loyalty of his army, combined with his own leadership abilities, Charlemagne soon defeated most of the other barbarian tribes in Western Europe. He expanded the Frankish Empire to include Germany, all of France, most of Italy, and even sections of northern Spain.


 * Charlemagne held his kingdom together by the sheer force of his personality. He was not a king in a palace somewhere. He was out and about. He heroically fought in battles, wearing his big blue cape. He personally visited local administrators, creating new laws to protect his people. He had a horrible singing voice, but he often burst into song, as he strode through village after village.


 * Charlemagne had an important role in dertermining the immediate economic future of europe. Pursing his father's reforms charlemagne abolished the monetary system based on the gold and the Anglo-Saxon King offa.