Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of Franks, Germanic peoples and Middle Ages continues with a video on Charlemagne's Saxon massacre. In 782, the Massacre of ...

Towering over the World War I battlefield at Verdun, a giant statue of Charlemagne—the Frankish king crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 AD—rests its arms on a mighty broadsword ...

EUROPE CAME INTO the world as a political idea in the year 800, or so many historians have long argued. That was the moment when Charlemagne, the leader of the rising Carolingian dynasty, received the ...