King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
1The early ninth century is dominated by the figure of Charles the Great.
2Then he turned and looked for the famous rear-guard of King Charles the Great.
3Read now the writing of King Charles the Great.
4From Charles the Great to Henry II it remained in what was practically a stationary condition.
5That influence was found in Charles the Great.
6Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, succeeded his father, Pepin, on the throne in the year 768.
7This old house saw Charles the Great embracing the chief magistrate of his liege city yonder.
8And Charles the Great, both as King and as Emperor, confirmed the donation of his father.
9Its title is "History of Charles the Great and Orlando."
10Charlemagne equals Charles the Great equals Big Charlie.
11Charles the Great, better known as Charlemagne, became King of the Franks in the year AD 768.
12Emma, from Eginhard, formerly secretary to Charles the Great, now a monk in Seligenstadt on the Main:
13A soothsayer warns Charles the Great of the coming of a Danish fleet to the Seine's mouth.
14The imperial policy of Charles the Great constitutes a preface to the history of the later Middle Ages.
15For good or for evil the prerogative of Charles the Great was inseparably united to the German monarchy.
16No traditions of imperial bureaucracy, except in a debased and orientalised form, were accessible to Charles the Great.
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