Join Tom and Dominic for this next instalment on the Franks and the rise of Charlemagne.

In 834, Louis made Hugh the archchancellor, a kind of executive administrator, of the Frankish empire. The son of Charlemagne ...

Charlemagne, who towered at a hefty 6ft 4in, reigned as King of the Franks in what is now France ... Also emperor of the Carolingian Empire, he shaped the character of medieval Europe and fathered ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Referred to as the "father of Europe," Charlemagne is one ... The King of the Franks was the first crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the year 800, over one thousand years before Stone ...

Around 800, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, had created an empire that covered most of western Europe, including northern Italy, western Germany and modern France. This was the largest state that ...

People usually define history as a discipline used to study and analyze past events and to investigate the patterns of cause ...

The prize is awarded annually by the German city of Aachen - where the Frankish king for whom it is named was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 - to honour "an outstanding personality of a united ...

named after the Frankish king Charlemagne, who united most of Western and Central Europe under the Holy Roman Empire in the 9th century. The Commission chief received the prize for “her services to ...

After discussing the paper trail of her parents' bloodline, host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Stone that her line of ...