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Charlemagne (747-814)

"Charlemagne (English: /ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/; French: [ʃaʁləmaɲ]) or Charles the Great[a] (2 April 748[b] – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was king of the Franks from 768, king of the Lombards from 774, and emperor of the Romans from 800. During the Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe. He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire. He was later canonized by Antipope Paschal III." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)

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died Aachen January 28, 814 CE
Husband of Hildegard of Vinzgouw
brother of Carloman I
brother of Carloman I
father of Pepin the Hunchback
father of Louis the Pious [son of], Hildegard of Vinzgouw [mother of]
father of Charles the Younger [son of], Hildegard of Vinzgouw [mother of]
son of Pepin the Short [father of], Bertrada of Laon [mother of]
was buried Aachen

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