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Persistence, practicality, personality, compassion, and energy are five of his acclaimed characteristics that made him a great leader. These qualities have been documented through time by various biographers describing Charles the Great or better known as; Charlemagne. It is said that Charlemagne was by far the most able and noble-spirited of all those who ruled over the nations during his time. He was the unconquered and unconquerable. He has been exalted for his abilities in battle, but more so for his ability to lead and inspire his people.

Born approximately on April 2, 742AD the time and place of Charles’ birth are questionable and documented at various places by biographers. He was born during a time when schooling was in a serious decline. He had some learning with books, and he read a few good ones. He tried in later years to learn writing but never quite succeeded; yet, he could speak many languages such as Teutonic and literary Latin, and understood Greek. Despite his lack of schooling, Charles the Great was very doughty in body and skilled in the use of weapons.

In 761 Charles accompanied his father, Pepin the Short, on an expedition in Aquitaine, and in 763 assumed the government of several counties. In 768 Pippin divided his kingdoms between his two sons, Carloman and Charles. In 768 Charles became ruler of the northern portion of the Frankish kingdom. He was crowned at Noyon on October 9, 768.

Charles had married King of the Lombards, Desiderius’ daughter as part of a peace treaty. In 771 he repudiated his Lombard wife and married princess of the Alamannia named Hildegarde. In 771 his brother Carloman II died, and Charles at twenty-nine became the sole king of the Franks. After the death of his brother, Charlemagne began to expand his empire. He picked the Saxons to attack because they were the last people in the area that were non-Christian and because they tried to invade the Frankish borders many times. This was the biggest and longest fight that Charlemagne would ever embark upon.

In 774 Charles witnessed the capture of Desiderius who was sent to a monastery. He then took the title "King of the Lombard," to which he added the dignity of "Patrician of the Romans," which had been granted to his father. In the meantime, he was also campaigning and Christianizing Bavaria and Saxony, destroying the arduous Avars, improving the defenses of Francia against the expanding Moors of Spain, and protecting Italy from the ravaging Saracens.

The Saxons were pagans, they burned down a Christian church and had long harassed the Franks; this suited Charlemagne for eighteen campaigns, waged with tireless viciousness on both sides. Charles conquered the Saxons and gave them a choice between baptism and death, and had forty five-hundred Saxon rebels beheaded in one day. He first invaded the Saxons in 772. It took him 32 years to conquer them.

Unprecedented in his military success, Charlemagne came to the aid of Pope Leo III, who was threatened by a rebellion in Rome. Charles brought down the rebels and on Christmas Day 800, Leo crowned and anointed Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.

Charlemagne reigned as King of the Franks from 768-814 and emperor of the Romans from 800-814. He could be brutal when policy commanded and was unusually fierce in his efforts to spread Christianity. Charles was a very successful and admired leader, promoted education, agriculture, arts, Christianity, and shipped food to poverty-stricken areas like parts of Africa. The amplitude and allure of his empire employed reverence all across western Europe. He was a successful ruler with many victories because of his power of organization and eagerness to prompt in the execution of the ideas at hand. Today he is regarded as the founding father of both the French and German nations. Some even go so far as to say he is the father of Europe in its entirety. Although after his death in 814 his empire did not last, he still deserves the title "great" for all of the innovative influences and significant victories during his reign.

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