History Hub presents a brief biography of Charlemagne from beginning to end, whose remarkable story impacts our lives even today. Charlemagne is dubbed as "Charles the Great" and considered as the ...

Towering over the World War I battlefield at Verdun, a giant statue of Charlemagne—the Frankish king crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 AD—rests its arms on a mighty broadsword ...

Between 768 and 814 CE, Charlemagne—also known as Karl or Charles the Great—ruled an empire that spanned most of Western Europe. After years of relentless warfare, he presided over present-day France, ...

The relics of Charlemagne, long on display at a treasury in Germany, are likely the real bones of the Frankish king, scientists say. Last Tuesday (Jan. 28) marked exactly 1,200 years since Charlemagne ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The relics of Charlemagne, long on display at a treasury in Germany, are likely the real bones of ...

Nobody in my past was hugely famous, at least that I know of. I vaguely recall that an ancestor of mine who shipped over on the Mayflower distinguished himself by falling out of the ship and having to ...

On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish king Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Rome after being assaulted and ...

Dame Janet Nelson, historian acclaimed for her biography of the elusive Charlemagne She pored over every scrap of evidence, rejecting the pessimistic view that ‘a biography [of Charlemagne] in the ...

An air of mystery surrounds the off-white dome, framed by slender cylindrical towers, rising from the alluvial soil that sweeps from the Chienti valley to the Adriatic. Guidebooks describe the church ...

Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, who has died aged 82, was a leading historian of early medieval Europe, a professor at King’s College London, and the first female president of the Royal Historical Society ...