The ancestors of Charlemagne were from the Merovingian family. Charlemagne’s father pepin was appointed to the position of mayor of the palace. The reason he was appointed to the position is because that his father had held the position with great dignity and honor. After a short time of being the mayor Pepin was appointed to the position of king by the Roman pontiff. Pepin ruled alone for fifteen years he ruled without a mayor. After the death of Pepin, his brother Carloman passed

There is not much known about Charlemagne as a child because of this there is little known about his education. All that is known is that his mother taught him as would be expected to. We also know that he was taught by a monk. Although he was illiterate he knew Latin and Greek spoke both very well. He was an advocate for the liberal arts. He took lesions in grammar from the deacon Peter of Pisa. Charlemagne loved to study astronomy.

Charlemagne was a very influential leader. He made many conquests of foreign countries. The conquests reached into countries as far away as southern Italy. He expanded the Frankish empire to more than double the size of the territory. He also had many ties to foreign leaders. Charlemagne was a very religious man. He was also a great supporter of the early church. He did many favors for the pope including driving the Lombards from Italy. He was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in the year 800 A.D.

There were many other wars and campaigns the Charlemagne would conduct in his life. Charlemagne was a wise man when it came to fighting wars he planned it all very well and was most successful. He won a lot of money and many fine things from the civilizations that he captured. He expanded the territory of the kingdom a great amount. He captured Saxony and parts of what is to day Germany. He expanded the kingdom to more than twice the size it was when his father gave it to him.

The next military under taking that Charlemagne entered into was the Lombard war. The bishop of Rome (The Pope) asked Charlemagne to attack the Lombards. Like his father before him he helped the pope with the Lombards. He and his father also both ran into the same difficulties there was men whom Charlemagne held in high regard that opposed the war but he took it on as well as his father had. However he went a little farther that his father had. He destroyed the Lombards he laid siege to there castle. (Chamberlin, 57-58)

Charlemagne was a very generous towards the church. He loved the church of St. Peter and gave it vast amounts of gold, silver and precious stones. However he was not just generous to the church in Rome. He would send money to Christians over seas in Jerusalem, Carthage and in other kingdoms. That is the reason that he was always willing to make friends with kings because he wanted to bring aid to the Christians of the country. His conduct toward foreigners was that of great kindness. He would offer protection to any one that would come into the kingdom. He offered protection because he wanted to find out more about the country from which they came. (Chamberlin, 84)

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