Charlemagne (768–814) was arguably the greatest king in European history. Indeed, it can be said that Charlemagne invented the idea of Europe. As Morrissey, professor of French literature at the ...
When Charlemagne, king of the Franks, planned the division of his empire between his sons in 806, he allotted Aquitaine, Gascony, Provence and half of Burgundy to one son; Lombardy, Bavaria and ...