Charlemagne

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Charlemagne or "Charles the Great", the founder of the Holy Roman Empire, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Emperor of the Romans from 800. He was a fascist, but not a typical Roman-style fascist, though he indeed wanted to be. He was an immense unifying factor during the middle ages. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was the Holy Roman Empire. He was canonized by Antipope Paschal III, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He was born before their canonical marriage. He became king of the Franks in 768 following his father's death, and was initially co-ruler with his brother Carloman I until the latter's death in 771.

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• Coronation:10 July 774, Pavia

• Coronation:25 December 800, Old St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

• Successor:Louis the Pious

• Born:2 April 747, Liège (Herstal) or Aachen

• Died:28 January 814, (aged 66), Aachen, Francia

• Burial:Aachen Cathedral

• Spouse:Desiderata, (m. c. 770, annulled 771), Hildegard of Vinzgouw, (m. 771, d. 783), Fastrada, (m. c. 783, d. 794), Luitgard, (m. c. 794, d. 800)

• Father:Pepin the Short

• Mother:Bertrada of Laon

• Religion:Roman Catholicism