FrenchHistory.net - 9 - CAROLINGIANS - CHARLEMAGNE

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ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)

Roman period

Mérovingiens

Carolingians

9 - CAROLINGIANS - CHARLEMAGNE

10 - CHARLEMAGNE EMPEROR, Government. - The Capitulary Ones. - Eginhard.

11 - LOUIS THE DÉBONNAIRE AND HIS SONS, Treaty of Verdun.

12 - CHARLES THE BALD PERSON, The Norman Ones.

13 - CHARLES THE LARGE ONE, Dismemberment of the empire in kingdoms and France into large strongholds.

FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)

MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)

THE REVOLUTION

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Died of Roland with Roncevaux.

The legend tells that in the passing of the Pyrenees, Roland, who ordered the rear-guard, was encircled by Buckwheats; his friend Olivier pressed it to sound horn to call Charlemagne: Roland refused proudly, awaited the attack of the enemies there, and head held to them for a long time.

However as it felt its exhausted forces, it carried its horn to its mouth, and sounded so extremely, that the veins of its temples broke.

Charlemagne in the Pyrenees.

With the sound of the horn which crossed the mountain, Charlemagne recognized the call of Roland, and went to his help, but when it arrived, Roland had died, and the army could only avenge it.

Charlemagne and its companions, Roland, Olivier, the Turpin archbishop inspired many poets, especially with the twelfth and the thirteenth century; Roland became the chivalrous ideal; most beautiful of our poems epic is the Song of Roland.

Charlemagne and its counts.

The Empire of Charlemagne included/understood Gaule, the North of Spain, the greatest part of Italy and Germany.

Also the Emperor it was often surrounded lords of all countries, which made a brilliant escort to him.

Its power highly struck the spirit of the men of its time; its person became for their imagination larger than natural and its history was transformed into legend.

Tender of the Saxon ones.

Saxony was one of the countries most difficult to conquer.

After y to have repressed terrible risings, Charlemagne wanted to complete by leniency the work of the force, but the Saxon ones still revolted, and this Charlemagne time did not forgive any more: 4500 prisoners were decapitated in one day; a part of the population was transported in other countries and Saxony was subjected to the most severe laws.