Charlemagne   747—814   Name means Charles the Great   King of the Franks 771-814 also King of the Lombards and Holy Roman Emperor   Elder son of Pepin the Short   Conquered Saxony in 18 battles forced conquered people to convert to Catholicism   Pope Leo III crowned him Holy Roman Emperor in 800   Title helped make Europe independent of Constantinople   Introduced a new monetary system also adopted by King Offa of Mercia that spread to all of Europe including England   Divided empire into 350 counties each ruled by appointed count   Charlemagne’s reign a time of scholarship, literature, art and architecture “Carolingian Rennaissance”   Scholars copied and preserved classical Latin works   Charlemagne immortalized in literature in Charlemagne cycle or “Matter of France”   Tales of Roland Charlemagne’s commander in chief and the paladins or knights

MEMORY TRIGGERS   Charles the Great___________________   _________________________________   Franks___________________________   _________________________________   Pepin____________________________   _________________________________   Saxony___________________________   _________________________________   Catholicism_______________________   _________________________________   Pope Leo III______________________   _________________________________   Holy Roman Emperor_______________   _________________________________   Constantinople____________________   _________________________________   Carolingian Rennaissance____________   _________________________________   Charlemagne cycle_________________   _________________________________   Roland___________________________   _________________________________     Copyrighted 2005 by Carl Peterson