Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Charlemagne ( SHAR-lə-mayn, -⁠MAYN, French: [ʃaʁləmaɲ]) or Charles the Great (Latin: Carolus Magnus; German: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian Dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy Roman Emperor from 800. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was known as the Carolingian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlemagne has received more than 15,093,584 page views. His biography is available in 145 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2019). Charlemagne is the 10th most popular politician (up from 11th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from France (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Politician.

Charlemagne was the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is most famous for uniting Western Europe and expanding the Frankish Kingdom into an empire that covered much of Western and Central Europe.