ITALIAN INSCRIPTION on lead, consistitng of thirty-one lines in capital letters, beginning, EN TELO ANNO DNI DCCLXXIV., and purporting to be a record of the recovery of Pavia from the Lombards by Charlemagne, in the year 774. lt is stated that this r... 1202
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Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
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Charlemagne or Charles the Great (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was the King of the Franks, the Lombards, and the Emperor of the Romans. During the Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe. He was the first recognised 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 is called the Carolingian Empire. He was later canonised by Antipope Paschal III. Ch...