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date: 21 March 2025

Charlemagne (Charles the Great) (c.742–814) Elder son of the Frankish magnate Pippin who displaced the last Merovingian king and assumed the title of king of the Franks in 751. 

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

In 754, Pope Stephen II came to Francia and consecrated Charles and his brother Carloman (b. 752) kings ...

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