The early ninth century is dominated by the figure of Charles the Great.

Then he turned and looked for the famous rear-guard of King Charles the Great.

Read now the writing of King Charles the Great.

From Charles the Great to Henry II it remained in what was practically a stationary condition.

That influence was found in Charles the Great.

Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, succeeded his father, Pepin, on the throne in the year 768.

This old house saw Charles the Great embracing the chief magistrate of his liege city yonder.

And Charles the Great, both as King and as Emperor, confirmed the donation of his father.

Its title is "History of Charles the Great and Orlando."

Charlemagne equals Charles the Great equals Big Charlie.

Charles the Great, better known as Charlemagne, became King of the Franks in the year AD 768.

Emma, from Eginhard, formerly secretary to Charles the Great, now a monk in Seligenstadt on the Main:

A soothsayer warns Charles the Great of the coming of a Danish fleet to the Seine's mouth.

The imperial policy of Charles the Great constitutes a preface to the history of the later Middle Ages.

For good or for evil the prerogative of Charles the Great was inseparably united to the German monarchy.

No traditions of imperial bureaucracy, except in a debased and orientalised form, were accessible to Charles the Great.