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Charlemagne's first known child was Pepin the Hunchback by his concubine Himiltrude. Born about 768, he was raised at his father's ...

North of the Pyrenees in what we now think of as southwestern France is an area the Romans called Aquitania from the Latin aqua , "wate...

Much is made of Charlemagne and his unification and christianization of much of Western Europe. What is the other side of the story, however...

Remains of an irminsul in Friedrichsgrund The Royal Frankish Annals have an entry for 772: The most gracious Lord King Charles then h...