Charlemagne King of the Franks

"The greatest of medieval kings was born in 742, at a place unknown. He was of German blood and speech, and shared some characteristics of his people- strength of body, courage of spirit, pride of race, and a crude simplicity many centuries apart from the urbane polish of the modern French. He had little book learning; read only a few books- but good ones; tried in his old age to learn writing, but never quite succeeded; yet he could speak old Teutonic and literary Latin, and understood Greek." This Quote is talking about Charemagne, which means Charles the Great. His name was very much deserved. He built up an amazing empire as one King, and changed history forever. Link

Not much at all is own about Charlemagne's childhood, but we do know about his wonderful life as a ruler. At the age of 28 he become King of the Franks ( which is now days France.) However, this was only when he bother Carloman died in 711 giving the whole kingdom to Charlemagne. From there a whole new empire started to bloom. He was a great leader, taking his people on over fifty military expeditions. This causing the kingdom to grow. By 800 he had speared it over most of Western Europe, places like The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, many other, and of course Franc. One of the keys to his, or anyone, susses was to be organized
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Charlemagne had not got this point of authority by bring merciful, But instead by inputting justice and being ferm. One would have to be with so much land to over rule and keep in order. He liked to always knew what was going on in his kingdom. Every law was to be followed and in forced. However, he did let other religions keep to their way to the most part.
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An amazing part about Charlemagne was that he would neither really write nor read. However, he still learned many many different languages and had read many books ( by having them read out loud of course) It was not that he was stupid and could not learn these things, for indeed he was a very smart man. It was just that it was not the way of the Frankish Nobles, they saw it as a waste of their time, so really it was just a tradition.
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Charlemagne, truly deserved his name, Charles the Great. He had created a whole new age that change history as we know it today. Over coming things like not being able to read or write very well, and yet still archiving conquering tons of powerful lands. However, most every thing has to come to an end. In 810 he died, leaving his empire to his thee sons splitting up the lead. This cause to the power to wakened and lead to the fall of the Charlene empire .

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