The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

Brundtland was awarded the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen.

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Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

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In 1973, British Prime Minister Edward Heath bought a Steinway piano with the £ 450 he had won in the Charlemagne Prize for leading Britain into the European Economic Community.

Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

He received the Charlemagne Prize in 1957 and the 1978 – 1979 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.

Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

Category: Charlemagne Prize recipients

* Brief portrait of Walter Hallstein at the official web site for Charlemagne Prize awards

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* 2005: Charlemagne Prize

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On 20 May 2004 he was awarded the Charlemagne Prize ( Karlspreis ) for his achievements with regard to the enlargement of the European Union and for his work in promoting greater EU democratisation.

He received the 2004 Charlemagne Prize for his efforts in the Eastward expansion of the European Union.

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While the Byzantine Eastern Roman Emperors retained full Roman imperium and made the episcopate subservient, in the feudal West a long rivalry would oppose the claims to supremacy within post-Roman Christianity between sacerdotium ( the ' priesthood ', i. e. the clergy ministering the word and will of God ) in the person of the Pope and the secular imperium of the revived Western Roman Emperor since Charlemagne.

Following Charlemagne, there was a great increase in the proportion of cavalry supplemented by improvement in armor: leather and steel, steel helmets, coats of mail, and even full armor added to the defensive capabilities of mounted forces.

The full campaign game begins in the year 770 ( the accession of Charlemagne ) and continues to about 1475.

The " land of Francia ," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings Clovis I and Charlemagne.

But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808.

The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention " Wisabada " sometime between 828 and 830.

Widukind ( 8th / 9th centuries ; modernized name Wittekind ) was a pagan Saxon leader and the chief opponent of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars.

In view of his name, he possibly was a descendant of the Saxon leader and national hero Widukind, mentioned in the Royal Frankish Annals, who had battled Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785.

Despite their difficult relationship, and the events following Carloman's death, Charlemagne would later name his second legitimate son ' Carloman ' after his deceased brother.

He changes his name to Francus and becomes king of Celtic Gaul ( while, at the same time, Bavo, cousin of Priam, comes to the city of Trier ) and founds the dynasty leading to Pepin and Charlemagne.

The name " Hu Gadarn " earlier appeared in a Welsh translation of a French romance about Charlemagne.

The name Hu Gadarn first appears in Pererindod Siarlymaen, a Welsh adaptation of the 12th-century French romance Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne ( The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne ).

The origins of Carcassonne as a county probably lie in local representatives of the Visigoths, but the first count known by name is Bello of the time of Charlemagne.

) remained prestigious enough to be used frequently by many European royal families-owing originally to the fame of Charlemagne, to which was added that of later illustrious kings and emperors of the same name.

Alfonso invited Charlemagne into Iberia to defeat the Moors, promising to name him as heir.

Charlemagne raised the district that was still governed under Frankish rule by a praeses in the 8th century to a county of Raetia, with a reminiscence of its Roman divisions in the name Reciarum comes, " count of the Raetias ", as late as 807 ; it was absorbed into the duchy of Swabia at the beginning of the 10th century.

The name distinguishes and relates the Matter of Britain from the mythological themes taken from classical antiquity, the " Matter of Rome ", and the tales of the paladins of Charlemagne and their wars with the Moors and Saracens, which constituted the " Matter of France ".

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.

Doon de Mayence was a fictional hero of the Old French chansons de geste, who gives his name to the third cycle of the Charlemagne romances dealing with the feudal revolts.

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.

From the time of St. Ambrose, whose hymns are well-known and whose liturgical allusions may certainly be explained as referring to a rite which possessed the characteristics of that which is called by his name, until the period of Charlemagne ( circ AD 800 ), there is a gap in the history of the Milanese Rite.

The current name appears for the first time in a letter from Pope Leo III to Charlemagne in 813 ( iscla from insula ) though there is an argument made for a Semitic origin in I-schra, " black island ".

Another origin for this popular name is Book IV of the Book of Saint James which relates how the saint appeared in a dream to Charlemagne, urging him to liberate his tomb from the Moors and showing him the direction to follow by the route of the Milky Way.

The " Monk of Saint Gall " ( Latin: Monachus Sangallensis ; the name is not contemporary, being given by modern scholars ), the ninth-century writer of a volume of didactic eulogistic anecdotes regarding the Emperor Charlemagne, is now commonly believed to be Notker the Stammerer.