It took three decades, however, to triumph against the Saxons, a Germanic tribe of pagans. The culmination occurred at the Massacre of Verden in 782, in which Charlemagne supposedly ordered the ...

Charlemagne started a long and bloody war against the Saxons, another Germanic tribe that had harried Charlemagne's father. In A.D. 772, Charlemagne's forces marched into Saxony (modern northern ...

The longest and most influential campaigns led by Charlemagne were the Saxons Wars, which stretched in some form or another for the better part of three decades. The rivalry between the Franks and ...

One of Europe’s most influential historical figures is celebrating his comeback to the series as a leader in Civilization 7 – Charlemagne returns for the first time since his appearance in Civ 4.

Charlemagne isn’t called the “father of Europe” for nothing. Charlemagne’s first known partner was a Frankish noblewoman named Himiltrude. She gave birth to Charlemagne’s oldest child, a ...

THE opening of Charlemagne's tomb the other day by the order of the Kaiser recalls an episode in the latter's early imperial career. Wilhelm von Hohenzollern is not the Emperor of Germany ...

Charlemagne, the legendary ruler of the Carolingian Empire, achieved just that during his reign. How was Charlemagne able to increase productivity and trade, setting the stage for a flourishing empire ...

Flaxseed was cultivated in Babylon as early as 3000 BC. In the 8th century, King Charlemagne believed so strongly in the health benefits of flaxseed that he passed laws requiring his subjects to ...