Charlemagne

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Charlemagne Background and Profiles

• Church History: Historical Time Line of Charlemagne's Life
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Charlemagne
• Lucid Cafe: Charlemagne-King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Hyperhistory.net: Charlemagne-Christian Emperor of the Franks

Campaigns and Conquests

• Wikipedia: Italian Campaigns | Spanish Campaigns | Eastern Campaigns
• History World: King of the Lombards | Conversion of the Saxons | A Brief Crusade into Spain
• Vanderbilt University: Charlemagne-King of the Franks

King of the Franks

• Western New England College: Charlemagne
• Exulanten: Karl der Grosse: Charlemagne
• General Board of Global Ministries: Charlemagne  
• Northwest Religious Liberty Association: "Charlemagne and the Vision of a Christian Empire" (1997)
• Medieval Writing: Scribes and Libraries of the Carolingian Court
• Liturgica.com: Charlemagne's Program of Reform
• The Legal History Project: Interview with Jeff Sypeck (2006)

Charlemagne Images and Media

• Vatican Museums: Crowning of Charlemagne 
• Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank: Charlemagne gold coin
• Zurich Daily Photo: karl der grosse
• Google Image Search: Charlemagne
• Yahoo! Image Search: Charlemagne

Charlemagne Books and Research

• Medieval Sourcebook: Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne
• Amazon.com: Charlemagne | ...Charlemagne in World History | Charlemagne and the Early Middle Ages
• eReader.com: Becoming Charlemagne
• Barnes & Noble: Charlemagne Book Search
• Knowledge4Africa.com: Merovingian and Carolingian Governments | The Significance of His Coronation
• FPRI: A Meditation on the 50th Anniversary of the European Community (2007)

Charlemagne Blogs and Message Boards

• Quid plura: What would Charlemagne make of Europe today?
• Saint Louis Catholic: The Coronation of Charlemagne

Charlemagne Timeline

• 742 or 747: Born
• 766: Married Himiltrude
• 768: Became King of Franks and married Gerperga
• 769: Aquitanian War
• 771: Marriage to Gerperga annuled, married Hildegard, and Carloman dies
• 772-774: Lombard War
• 778: Spanish Expedition
• 784: Married Fastrada after Hildegard's death
• 791: War with the Huns
• 794: Married Luitgard after Fastrada's death
• 800: Crowned Imperator Augustus and Luitgard dies
• 814, January 28: Died of pleurisy

Charlemagne in Popular Culture

• University of Adelaide eTexts: Bulfinch's Mythology, Legends of Charlemagne...
• Online Medieval and Classical Library: The Song of Roland
• blogwaffe: Carolus Magnus
• Note: The following timeline links to IMDb, which has pop-ups. 
  • 1911: Karl der Grosse
  • 1933: Charlemagne
  • 1993: Charlemagne, le prince a cheval Mini Series
  • 1999: Sphinx-Geheimnisse der Geschichte

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