King of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814)
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He took a fractured post-Roman landscape and hammered it into an empire, then had a pope crown him the first Western emperor in three centuries. The medieval map of Europe is still shaped by where his armies stopped.
Born 2 April 748, eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, Charlemagne became King of the Franks in 768 alongside his brother Carloman I, then sole ruler three years later. He spent decades expanding: removing the Lombards from northern Italy in 774, conquering Bavaria, Saxony — where the Massacre of Verden marked his ruthless spread of Christianity — and northern Spain, while maintaining diplomatic contact with the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid in the 790s. On Christmas 800, Pope Leo III crowned him emperor in Rome, a title that brought him into conflict with Constantinople and ma…
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Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!
It is not lack of self-restraint but care for others which makes me dine in Lent before the hour of evening.
Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities.
Bishops should despise this world and inspire others by their example to seek after heavenly things.
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