Charlemagne sought to subdue the city to his own rule.

Moreover, Gerberga, the widow of Charlemagne's brother Carloman, sought the protection of the Lombard king after her husband's death in 771 ; and — probably in return for the insult Charlemagne had given to the Lombards by rejecting Desiderata — Desiderius recognised Gerberga's sons as lawful heirs, and attacked Pope Adrian for refusing to crown them kings and invaded the Pentapolis.

Charlemagne sought to unify the practice of church music by eliminating regional stylistic differences.

He modelled it after the Palace at Aachen which Charlemagne, whom he consciously sought to emulate, as indicated by the Gesta Karoli Magni of Notker the Stammerer, had built.

Seeking revenge, Ogier sought out and slew Charlot, and was only barely prevented from killing Charlemagne.

The Carolingian art of the Frankish Empire, especially modern France and Germany, from roughly 780-900 takes its name from Charlemagne and is an art of the court circle and a few monastic centres under Imperial patronage, that consciously sought to revive " Roman " styles and standards as befitted the new Empire of the West.

As the Muslims invaded the Iberian Peninsula, Vasconia and Aquitaine sought the aid of Charlemagne and subsequent Carolingian monarchs, resulting in a certain amount of assimilation.

The border was challenged from both sides ; Charlemagne sought to conquer Denmark, and Danish kings supported Saxons wishing to cast off the Frankish rule.

Similarly, other emperors have sought to create a " Roma Nova "; for example, Charlemagne with Aachen, Otto I with Magdeburg and Heinrich II with Bamberg.

The advent of scholarly reforms by Charlemagne, who was particularly interested in music, began a period of intense activity in the monasteries of the writing and copying of treatises in music theory – the Musica enchiriadis is one of the earliest and most interesting of these.

Although the alumni magazine of her undergraduate alma mater, Oberlin College, praised her in 1924, saying, " The class of ’ 84 is honored in the achievement of this scholarly and colored alumna ," when she tried to present her edition of Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne to the college the next year, it was rejected.

In the year 777 – 778, several notable men including Sulayman ibn Yokdan al-Arabi al-Kelbi, the self-appointed governor of Zaragoza, met with delegates of the leader of the Franks, Charlemagne.

This may take the form of a purpose ( as in Milton, who proposed " to justify the ways of God to men "); of a question ( as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking a Muse to sing of Achilles ' anger ); or of a situation ( as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain ).

Charlemagne came down with an army, and his son Louis the Pious sent men, to force the Beneventan duke to submit, but his submission and promises were never kept and Arechis and his successors were de facto independent.

The Thuringii had a separate identity as late as 785 – 786, when one of their leading men, Hardrad, led an abortive insurrection against Charlemagne.

Charlemagne and his men are tired of fighting and decide to accept this peace offer.

Almost all his men are dead and Roland knows that it's now too late for Charlemagne and his troops to save them, but he blows his oliphant anyway, so that the emperor can see what happened to his men and avenge them.

When Charlemagne and his men reach the battlefield, they find only dead bodies.

With Marsilla's wife Bramimonde, Charlemagne and his men ride back to Aix, their capital in France.

Even under the strong rule of Charlemagne it was difficult to find men to discharge these duties impartially, and after his death in 814 it became almost impossible.

Epic poems, sagas, chansons de geste and acritic songs ( songs of heroic deeds ) were often about the great men, real or imagined, and their achievements like Arthur, Charlemagne and El Cid.

On 23 April the Reich Chancellery in Berlin ordered Krukenberg to proceed to the capital with his men, who were reorganized as Sturmbataillon (" assault battalion ") " Charlemagne ".

General Leclerc was presented with a defiant group of 11-12 captured Charlemagne Division men.

He explains in an elaborate prologue how folk desire to read old romances relating to Alexander the Great, Julius Cæsar, Troy, Brutus, King Arthur, Charlemagne etc., and how only those men are esteemed that love " paramours ".

During this time, the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne, a 300 man unit of French SS volunteers and the Spanish Volunteer Company of the SS No. 101, a company of Spanish SS men were attached to the division.

By the end of their existence when men like King Arthur and Charlemagne ruled, the giants were totally defeated.

Despite such humble origins, he was accepted into the hugely wealthy court of Charlemagne around 791 or 792.

Of all of the Germanic peoples, the Franks would rise to a position of Hegemony over western Europe, the Frankish Empire reaching its peak under Charlemagne around AD 800, when he was crowned Emperor of the West.

It is also possible that discussions took place around the marriage of Charlemagne ’ s sister, Gisela to Desiderius ’ son, Adalgis.

Napoleon had succeeded in bringing most of Western Europe under one rule — a feat that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire ( although Charlemagne had nearly done so around 800 CE ).

The chant developed in isolation prior to the Islamic invasion and was not subject to the Papacy's enforcement of the Gregorian chant as the standard chant around the time of Charlemagne, by which time the Muslim's had conquered most of the Iberian peninsula.

The literature which was popular then was heroic-romantic literature derived from the French and in turn English courts, notably chanson de geste around Charlemagne ( the Matter of France ) and tales of King Arthur ( the Matter of Britain ).

Charles the Great ( Charlemagne ) began the construction of the Palatine Chapel around 792, along with the building of the rest of the palace structures.

It was awarded to William of Gellone, a grandson of Charles Martel and therefore a cousin of Charlemagne, around the year 800 for his services in the wars against the Moors and reconquering southern France and the Spanish March.

Charlemagne also founded several monasteries in Septimania, around which the people gathered for protection.

Though Charlemagne, in deference to Byzantine outrage, preferred the title " Emperor, king of the Franks and Lombards ", the ceremony formally acknowledged the Frankish Empire as the successor of the ( Western ) Roman one ( although only the forged " Donation " gave the pope political authority to do this ), thus triggering a series of disputes with the Byzantines around the Roman name.

An entry for the year 782 in the Royal Frankish Annals records that, after Charlemagne lost two envoys, four counts, and around twenty nobles in battle with the Saxons, Charlemagne responded by massacring 4, 500 rebelling Saxons in what is now Verden.

Liutgard was the daughter of an Alamannian count and married Charlemagne around 794.

Fighting was intense and the Sturmbataillon Charlemagne was in the center of the battle zone around the Reich Chancellery.

Charlemagne began the construction of the Palatine Chapel around 792, along with the building of the rest of the palace structures.

A chronicle from St Martin's monastery in Cologne states that the monastery had been pillaged by the Saxons in 778, but that it was rebuilt by an " Olgerus, dux Daniæ " ( who may have been the historical person around whom the myth of Ogier the Dane formed ), with the help of Charlemagne.

The first count attested by the sources is one Ermenaud, a companion of Charlemagne who reigned around 770.

Frankish mythology and legends revolve around Charlemagne as champion of Christianity and mythological king to France.

The town, which has existed since the time of Charlemagne, was first known as Kellinghusen around the year 1148, as evidenced by the name " Thoto of Kerleggehusen.