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/ˈʃɑɹɫəˌmeɪn/
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NOUN
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
How To Use Charlemagne In A Sentence
- Charlemagne, which was to rise in the "imperialized" church. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
- Overseen by evangelist monks Charlemagne's conquering Franks meet fierce resistance from Saxon tribesmen.
- Tales of the paladins of Charlemagne once rivalled the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table in popularity.
- The theological treatises were probably already known at the court of Charlemagne around 800, and a tradition of glosses to the text probably goes back to the later ninth century.
- Unlike many of his time Charlemagne had the skill of writing, as in his imperial signature on a document dated 775.
- II) also edited a benedictional from two manuscripts of the time of Charlemagne or a little later, formerly in the library of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- It encouraged the adherents of this house to attribute to it an almost regal dignity, and to intimate more and more plainly its claim upon the throne of France, as descended through the Dukes of Lorraine from Charlemagne -- a title superior to that of the Valois, who could trace their origin to no higher source than the usurper Hugh Capet. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
- When Raphael painted the Coronation of Charlemagne on the walls of the Vatican stanzas, was he being unartistic?
- From the time of Charlemagne the above-named German tribes lived under Frankish constitution retaining their own old laws, the leges barbarorum, which Charlemagne codified.
- a long alliance between the papacy and the prede - cessors of Charlemagne had resulted in the re-creation of an “empire” — one in which Charlemagne was able to exercise a sort of “caesaropapism,” controlling the CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY