Emperor Charlemagne HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

  General Notes:

Charlemagne (En: [ Fr: [ Latin: Carolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great) (742 or 747 \endash 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded and consolidated the Frankish Empire to incorporate much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800, in an attempted revival of the Roman Empire. He is usually known as the first Holy Roman Emperor, but the term "Holy Roman Empire" was not in use during his lifetime. By his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define Western Europe and the Middle Ages. His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture.

His original name in the Old Frankish language was never recorded, but early instances of his name in Latin read "Carolos" or "Karol's". The son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, he succeeded his father and co-ruled with his brother Carloman until the latter's death in 771. Today regarded as the founding father of both France and Germany and sometimes as the Father of Europe, he was the first ruler of a Western
European empire since the fall of the Roman Empire. Indeed, H. G. Wells said in his Short History of the World:

" Charlemagne, who began to reign in 768, found himself lord of a realm so large that he could think of reviving the title of Latin Emperor. He conquered North Italy and made himself master of Rome.

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  Medical Notes:

In 813, Charlemagne called Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine, his only surviving legitimate son, to his court. There he crowned him as his heir and sent him back to Aquitaine. He then spent the autumn hunting before returning to Aachen on 1 November. In January, he fell ill. He took to his bed on 21 January and as Einhard tells it:
"He died January twenty-eighth, the seventh day from the time that he took to his bed, at nine o'clock in the morning, after partaking of the Holy Communion, in the seventy-second year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign."
When Charlemagne died in 814, he was buried in his own Cathedral at Aachen. He was succeeded by his surviving son, Louis, who had been crowned the previous year. His empire lasted only another generation in its entirety; its division, according to custom, between Louis's own sons after their father's death laid the foundation for the modern states of France and Germany.

Charlemagne married Empress Hildegard HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, daughter of Count Gerold of VINZGAU and Duchess Imma of SWABIA, in 772 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia. (Empress Hildegard HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE was born in 757 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia and died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Austrasia.)

Charlemagne next married Desiderata.

Charlemagne next married Empress Ermengarde.

Charlemagne next married Fastrada.

Charlemagne next had a relationship with Luitgard Concubine.

Charlemagne next married Mathalgard.

Charlemagne next married Gershwin.

Charlemagne next married Regina.

Charlemagne next married Adelaid.

Charlemagne next married Galiena.