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Charlemagne (Charles the Great) is the most discussed political leader of the 8 th and 9th centuries. He became ruler of a vast empire in Western Europe, and from 800AD on held the title of Roman Emperor. Later on Charlemagne acquired an almost divine status, both as a Catholic saint, and as the hero of French epics and Romances. At his death in 814AD, what he left behind was a remarkably well organized and administered empire …

…of Germanic, Roman, and Christian cultures that became the basis of European civilization. Whether we regard him as a warrior or as a legislator, as a patron of learning or as the civilizer of a barbarous nation, he is entitled to our warmest admiration. He succeeded in doing something that no one accomplished before or after his reign. He brought upon Europe, its Golden Age during his rule, only because of the way he ruled.