Charlemagne

CHARLEMAGNE By: Cara Wethington Picture of Charlemagne   1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, – URL: []  Picture URL: []
 * Charlemagne was** **born on a cold blistering day in 742.(1) He had one brother named <span style="color: #ac17fd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Carloman <span style="color: #a30dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ac17fd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b11dfc; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b122fc; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">,(<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">5) his dad was King Pepin.(6) His childhood was overtaken by the laborious tasks of preparing himself to control his father’s land.(3) His <span style="color: #a206f4; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">father owned a huge  <span style="color: #9506f4; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">amount of land stretching <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9306f4; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">from modern day France <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #9a23fb; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">all the <span style="color: #901ef6; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #9a23fb; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9106f4; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">way to Switzerland <span style="color: #a126fd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">.(  <span style="color: #a126fd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">2) <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">On  <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">September 24, 768, just minutes before his<span style="color: #9c1ff9; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">     <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9e1ff4; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">dad’s <span style="color: #16f8bc; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9e1ff4; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">death, Char <span style="color: #a414fa; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">lemagne's  <span style="color: #9c1ff9; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #a422fc; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a414fa; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">da d had divided  <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">his land to his two sons  <span style="color: #9516f8; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">.(<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">4 )    <span style="color: #9516f8; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">  **  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #9516f8; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**His**  **<span style="color: #9516f8; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">brother <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">had owned present-day Germany, France, and Switzerland.(9) His brother died in <span style="color: #ae13fb; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">771(7), this had put Charlemagne with a huge plot of land.(8) His kingdom grew up <span style="color: #9729f5; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">to an empire under his <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">relentless and <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #901ef6; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">resourceful military <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9529f5; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">campaign, it covered <span style="color: #9813fb; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">most of modern France and Germany. He had many wives and concubines.  <span style="color: #8707f2; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9d13fb; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">On December 25 Charlemagne <span style="color: #971bf8; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">was crowned <span style="color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">emperor of the Romans ****<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #8f0dfd; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">. He had died in 814. **