Charlemagne Part 1 - Birth of a Legend.

Today we're going to cover the magnificent life and legend of Emperor Charlemagne, also known as Emperor Charles the Great. Being often referred to as the father of Europe Emperor Charlemagne the great was an excellent military commander, uniting the Frankish kingdom conquering Italy, Bavaria, Saxony and northern Spain. Due to his conquests and help in spreading Christianity Charlemagne was in January 800 A.D crowned emperor of Rome by the Pope. Being both a man of the battlefield as well as of the mind Charlemagne also contributed to the cultural and intellectual development in Europe in what is today known as the Carolingian renaissance.

But how did he get there?

That’s the subject that we will cover in this video. We will start by covering the historical context that emperor Charlemagne was born into to then continue with his early military campaigns in Aquitaine, the conflict with his younger brother Carloman and then end with Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombard kingdom in Italy so stay tuned!

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Photo Credits.

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Music credits.
“Magical forest” and “Five Armies” by Incompitech/Kevin Macleod).
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Sources.
Medieval Europe(Chris Wickham, 2016).
Charlemagne’s Early Campaigns 768–777(Kelly DeVries et al, 2013).

[Abishekep]

You Sir deserve more subscribers. Can't wait for Part 2.

[HistoryHouseProductions]

Your transitions between pictures are really great!

[ranikumarinayak]

Thank you so much sir
Charlemagne information 🙂🙂

[maximhollandnederlandthene]

I live near Aachen, Germany.
The place where Charlemagne his remains are in the Aachener Dom, put in a golden
sarcophagus.
Also his stone throne and more is to see there.

[AAwildeone]

I watch a lot of vids on this period, as it is one of my favorites, along with England from the Plantangenets through the Tudors. You definitely do some of the best detailed and entertaining presentations! Cheers!

[reynaldoevidentejr]

Lombards: You either die as a freeman, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Karling minion 😂

[ahmedharris]

One of my favorite figures from European history. You should also do a video on the Carolingian renaissance that he put into motion.

[kendalldemaio]

this man’s accent is so thick lmao i’m tryna do an assignment and he’s speaking in cursive

[athenassigil]

Are you ever going to do a Mervoginian Dynasty video? The long haired kings of France have always fascinated me. Great video, by the way. Oh, your channel should have at least 100, 000 or more subs, quality stuff, good sir!

[asherblack]

Everything I knew about Charlemagne before this video was from the Eternal Darkness video game. Thanks!

[dz]

I've just named my newly adopted senior cat Charlemagne. He's got a lovely, dignified and strong personality.

[Segnor]

You've greatly improved the quality of your videos. Keep it up! Reminds me of Baz battles and channels like that.
I would only suggest two minor things: I think it's a bit too dark, more light would be nice, on the edges as well. Also, when you show certain pictures, they are sometimes too small, there's a lot of wasted space.
Other than that it's really great, makes me want to create my own channel as well, but I don't know the topic yet :D

[spencer]

Thanks man, helped a lot with my essay

[Fezcon]

yo im directly related to this dude i never knew he was this important so thas cool

[christofferjespersen]

Am i the only one who finds it funny that if all you viewers including the narrator have a European ancestor you are quite likely actually a descendant of Charlemagne and you thought family expectations were high before lol!

[vortac]

Great video im just curious how are u making those maps and stuff

[kipl]

Very good series; I love your accent. It makes you sound very cool; sounds like Dracula doing a lecture. You aren't originally from Romania are you?

[AAAAAAAA-vdzv]

1:30 king richard of england is a merovingian apparently

[AAwildeone]

"Levant" used to be my favorite word you say in your accent; now, it's "Desiderata", but I don't suppose she's going to resurface very much! Cheers!

[lornakim]

the accent-vernacular is officious or facetious?^^