History_Of_Charlemange

History Of Charlemange Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, King of the Franks was a strong leader who unified Western Europe through military power and the blessing of the Church. His belief in the need for education among the Frankish people was to bring about religious, political, and educational reforms that would change the history of Europe. Charlemagne was born in 742 at Aachen, the son of Pepin the Short and grandson of Charles Martel. His grandfather, Charles, had begun the process of unifying Western Europe, in the belief that all people should be Christian. Charlemagne’s father, Pepin, continued this process throughout his rule and passed his beliefs on to Charlemagne. Upon Pepin’s death in 768, Charlemagne and his brother, Carloman, each inherited half of the Frankish kingdom. Pepin, in the Merovingian tradition of the time, split his kingdom between his two sons. Three years later Carloman died and Charlemagne took control of the entire kingdom. Charlemagne used the army and his own skillful planning to more than double the size of the Frankish Kingdom. The world of Charlemagne was a heathen one, with many warring tribes and kingdoms. Charlemagne conquered many of these tribes. Charlemagne actually defeated them many times, but charlemagne, people, church, kingdom, power, education, charlemagne’s, king, europe, pope, western, laws, time, throughout, school, pepin, leader, franks, frankish, charles, art, unified, tradition, took, through, spread, priests, palace, one, monasteries, lombards, latin, himself, each, court