The Franks, a Germanic tribe that rose to prominence during the fall of the Roman Empire, played a central role in the ...

Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, ruled over the vast Carolingian empire that spanned Europe during the Dark Ages. He became king of the Franks in A.D. 768 and conquered much of Europe during his ...

The illegitimate son of a Frankish noble ... was the first emperor to rule Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. Though Charlemagne gained no substantial territory, the coronation created ...

In 834, Louis made Hugh the archchancellor, a kind of executive administrator, of the Frankish empire. The son of Charlemagne and an unknown partner, Richbod became abbot of Saint-Riquier near ...

Charlemagne, who towered at a hefty 6ft 4in, reigned as King of the Franks in what is now France ... Also emperor of the Carolingian Empire, he shaped the character of medieval Europe and fathered ...

As the Frankish courtier Einhard recounted ... gripping and often horrifically violent tale of the collapse of Charlemagne’s empire. To justify their rule, the Carolingians told a story about ...

Originally inspired by the churches of the eastern part of the Holy Roman Empire, the octagonal core was splendidly enlarged in the Middle Ages. In 814, Charlemagne was buried here. Charlemagne made ...

Charlemagne is known as “the father of Europe,” and little wonder. The Frankish king and conqueror was crowned emperor by the pope on Christmas Day in 800, and thus the Holy Roman Empire came ...

Eric J. Goldberg, Ph.D., professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will deliver a talk entitled, “Soldiers, Rapine, and the Decline of an Empire.” In his talk, Goldberg will ...