Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great (748–814), was a formidable warlord and the king of the Franks, a Germanic tribe that inhabited areas of present-day Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the ...

Michael Taube, a Troy Media syndicated columnist and political commentator, was a speechwriter for former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. The tale of Charles I, more commonly known as ...

Towering over the World War I battlefield at Verdun, a giant statue of Charlemagne—the Frankish king crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 AD—rests its arms on a mighty broadsword ...

This walking tour continues inside Nuremberg Castle in Germany, where museum displays explore medieval rulers and imperial history. A large portrait of Charlemagne stands beside historical information ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of Franks, Germanic peoples and Middle Ages continues with a video on Charlemagne's Saxon massacre. In 782, the Massacre of ...

Charlemagne (768–814) was arguably the greatest king in European history. Indeed, it can be said that Charlemagne invented the idea of Europe. As Morrissey, professor of French literature at the ...

WHAT better way for a new columnist to begin writing Charlemagne than to draw inspiration from Karolus Magnus himself? My first outing, then, is to Aachen, the closest thing that the peripatetic ...

A statue of Charlemagne in front of Aachen’s town-hall on the 1,200th anniversary of his death.Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images Charlemagne, otherwise known as Charles the Great and the “Father of ...