In 834, Louis made Hugh the archchancellor, a kind of executive administrator, of the Frankish empire. The son of Charlemagne and an unknown partner, Richbod became abbot of Saint-Riquier near ...

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 ...

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

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

Charlemagne was king of the Franks and Emperor of the mighty Carolingian Empire. His unusually long reign saw him conquer vast swathes of Europe, and shape them into an empire that would inspire ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Centuries might have passed since the collapse of Roman rule in western Europe, but the allure, the charisma, the prestige of the vanished empire still haunted Frankish scholars. This was why, when ...