Qui est lempereur charlemagne biography

I read an excerpt in The Medieval Reader that so interested me that I sought the full text. Of the ones I found, this was easy to read (well-translated for modern readers) and has over fifty elucidating footnotes. As a math teacher, I often get the "When I am going to use this?" question. My answer is generally around the "When you use your brain" type of response as I believe studying math makes for better thinking. In this recreational reading by an author also called Einhard I came across this observation of the famous Emperor of the Franks:

He was ready and fluent in speaking, and able to express himself with great clearness. He did not confine himself to his native tongue, but took pains to learn foreign languages, acquiring such knowledge of Latin that he could make an address in that language as well as in his own. Greek he could better understand than speak. Indeed, he was so polished in speech that he might have passed for a learned m

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Charlemagne and his Critics 814-829

1Not long after the death of the Mercian king Offa on 26 th July 796, Alcuin criticised him in a letter to one of his former courtiers for the bloodshed that had been involved in his efforts to secure the succession of his son Egfrith1. The consequences of this violence Alcuin thought he saw manifest in the brevity of the latter’s reign and his death, although personally innocent of involvement in his father’s crimes, only one hundred days after that of Offa. With the kingdom then passing to Cenwulf (796-821), who was not closely related to his predecessors, Alcuin clearly felt better able to write freely about some of the darker aspects of Offa’s reign than had been the case in any of his earlier letters to his numerous Mercian correspondents. It is most likely that Egfrith’s premature death prompted the need to find some deeper explanation for this sudden end to his very short reign. In a letter written to Egfrith himself about a decade be

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Charlemagne

King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor

For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation).

Charlemagne (SHAR-lə-mayn; 2 April 748^[a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. He united most of Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Charlemagne's reign was marked by political and social changes that had lasting influence on Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

A member of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty, Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. With his brother, Carloman I, he became king of the Franks in 768 following Pepin's death and became the sole ruler three years later. Charlemagne continued his father's policy of protecting the pap