Charlemagne (748–814) ruled a vast empire in the 8th century, uniting most of Western and Central Europe. He became a ...

Actress Sharon Stone gasped with astonishment as she discovered she was related to Charlemagne on the upcoming Jan. 28 episode of “Finding Your Roots.” The famous actress couldn’t find the ...

By encouraging arts, culture and education, the 8th-century Frankish king ... Europe was entering its fourth century of the "Dark Ages" when Charlemagne was born in A.D. 742, ...

In the 8th century, King Charlemagne believed so strongly in the health benefits of flaxseed that he passed laws requiring his subjects to consume it. Now, thirteen centuries later, ...

Aachen - the city of Charlemagne. In the late 8th century, the Holy Roman emperor made Aachen his imperial residence and had the Palatine Chapel built there.

Charlemagne was temperate in eating, ... Even though the 8th- and 9th-century Carolingians brewed beer with hops, it seems to have fallen severely out of fashion by the 12th century.

One was the development of Carolingian minuscule, part of Charlemagne’s 8th- and 9th-century push to reform education and standardize the production of Latin texts across Europe.

They too have been mulling Charlemagne’s coronation in Rome in 800 and his subsequent movements. A Latin text has him in Aquisgrana in March 801 and in the Italian town of Spoleto in April.

As legend has it, a sword from God given to Roland, an 8th century military leader under Charlemagne, was so powerful that Roland’s last mission was to destroy it.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an early masterpiece of French epic poetry, from the 12th Century. It is a reimagining of Charlemagne’s wars in Spain in the 8th Century in which Roland, his most ...

Charlemagne made the Frankish royal estate of Aachen, which had been serving a spa ever since the first century, his favourite abode. The main buildings of the Imperial Palace area were the Coronation ...