One conceptional area is the documentation of the Cathedral as the church of Charlemagne.
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In August of that year the treasure was taken to the Collegium Liborianum, the Capuchin Monetary in Paderborn, where the three items of Imperial Regalia hitherto in the possession of the Cathedral college (the Carolingian Coronation Gospels, the Sabre of Charlemagne and St. Stephen's Purse were separated and taken to Vienna.
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These items included the Karlsschrein, the Marienschrein, Bust of Charlemagne, the Cross of Lothar, the ivories, the codices, and the two great Gothic reliquaries (Charlemagne's reliquary and Three Towers reliquary).
The chandelier was a donation in honour of Mary, Mother of God, the patroness of Aachen Cathedral and simultaniously represented a tribute to the builder of the cathedral, Charlemagne.
The pass is named after Charlemagne, who is said to have crossed the pass on his way to Rome in 800 AD for his coronation as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Saint Louis became the flagship of the squadron almost as soon as she reached Toulon and all three participated in a number of port visits and naval reviews.
It and several other Visigothic churches built in Spain about the same time represent the last ashlar construction in western Europe until Charlemagne, and can be seen as the end of that ancient Roman building tradition in the west.
The oldest one, entitled to Charlemagne, is the surviving one of the two once featured by the first Romanesque church (the other disappeared in the 14th century).
Gisela the Younger may have lived from 781 to 808, but little else is known of her life.
Charlemagne also is said to have acquired a piece of the sponge, which is venerated in the cathedral at his capital, Aachen.
Charlemagne and his men, believing that the city was full of food even to the point of wasting pigs fed with wheat, raised the siege.
On the 6 August 1944, Kepplinger was killed in the town of Villiers-Charlemagne which was under artillery fire, the car he was traveling in was hit, with Kepplinger being instantly killed.
The song is sung by the Leading Player, who invites the audience to watch a show about a prince living in Charlemagne's France who is searching for fulfillment and does not know where to go in life.
This vineyard is close to the famous "Clos Charlemagne" which was the property of the Emperor Charlemagne until 775.
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Here Latour owns 10.5 hectares (25 acres) of Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru, one of the most famous white wines of Burgundy.
Proponents of the theory claimed that every U.S. president since George Washington can have their bloodline traced back to various European royals, with at least thirty-three presidents having been descended from Alfred the Great and Charlemagne.
In the Early Middle Ages, Northern Germany was the settlement area of the Saxon tribes, which were subjugated by the Frankish ruler Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars from 772 onwards, whereafter the Imperial Duchy of Saxony was established in 804.
The name of the order was given to honor the figure of the founder of the Principality of Andorra, Emperor Charlemagne of the Franks, who granted sovereignty to the people of the "Valleys of Andorra" in gratitude for helping him fight the Saracens.
Rainald won the consent of the King of England to common ecclesiastico-political action in behalf of Paschal and once more took up arms in defence of his one ambition, which he hoped the proposed canonization of Charlemagne at Aachen in 1165 would advance.
Repentigny and Charlemagne are the first towns off the Eastern tip of the island of Montreal.
Pope Paschal, who reigned 817-824, was at the forefront of the Carolingian Renaissance started and advocated by the emperor Charlemagne.
Višeslav, the great-grandfather of Vlastimir and first Serbian monarch known by name, was a contemporary with Charlemagne (fl. 768–814).
From the time of Charlemagne, who had such officials appointed in ecclesiastical territories not directly under the control of his counts, the Vogt was a state functionary representing ecclesiastical dignitaries (such as bishops and abbots) or institutions in secular matters, and particularly before secular courts.
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Saint Adalard (or Adalard of Corbie) (c. 751 – 2 January 827) was son of Bernard the son of Charles Martel and half-brother of Pepin; Charlemagne was his cousin.
Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos, Bishop of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage.
One might say they were equals, except that Charlemagne had the help of Saint Gabriel.
Two charters from 802 and 804 show that Benedict and his predecessor Mauroald financed the military service of two brothers from the Sabina, Probatus and Picco, sons of Ursus of the Pandoni family, who were serving the army of Charlemagne then targeting the Principality of Benevento.
Boniface I, Margrave of Tuscany (died 823), governor of Italy under Charlemagne after the death of King Pepin
The Lombards having taken it again in 725, Charlemagne (Defender of the Faith) cleared them out by 774 and handed the island over to the Papacy, which had been the most powerful complainant of the island's devastation by Germanics.
Some further help has been provided by Hampe, regarding the papal letters to Charlemagne and to Louis the Pious, and by Herth-Gerenth for Sergius II.
Wittekind, Oratorio - on Widukind, the Saxon leader against Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars.
Most of our knowledge of classical literature now derives from copies made in the scriptoria of Charlemagne.
The grammarian Cruindmelus, the poet Dungal of Bobbio and Bishop Donatus of Fiesole were among the many Irish teachers on the Continent who enjoyed the favour of Charlemagne.
Abbess Gisela was the one person to send Alcuin the news at Tours of her brother Charlemagne’s official coronation.
It claims to be based on a treatise of the same name by Adalhard, who was an adviser to Emperor Charlemagne and abbot of the monastery of Corbie, although this document has not survived.
Donatus is mentioned in Frankish annals from 805 as an ambassador of the Dalmatian cities to Charlemagne in Thionville.
The Treaty of Heiligen was signed in 811 between the Danish King Hemming and Charlemagne, by which the border was established at the Eider.
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In 1914, John Champlin published the bulk of the currently known ancestry of Francis Marbury, showing his descent from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great.
A brief discussion of Joan's sword, obtained from the church of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois and its relation to other famous swords with mystic powers such as those of King Arthur (Excaliber), Roland (Durendal), El Cid (Tizona and Colada), Charlemagne (Joyeuse), and others.
In an attempt to prevent civilian casualties and to protect the city's historical architecture and relics (it was the ancient centre of Charlemagne's empire, or the First Reich), he left a letter at the telegraph office to be given to the American commander, General Courtney Hodges, informing him of his intent to surrender the city without contest.
The Carolingian architecture of his palace complex at Germigny-des-Prés was in a general sense modelled on Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen.
The town of Joyeuse, in Ardèche, is supposedly named after the sword: Joyeuse was allegedly lost in a battle and retrieved by one of the knights of Charlemagne; to thank him, Charlemagne granted him an appanage named Joyeuse.
Although the Paderborn Epic's hunt scene, probably describing an actual hunt in the spring of 799, is "highly stylized", the importance of women in Charlemagne's court is highlighted by the order of his retinue: the queen Luitgard, followed by sons Charles and Pippin, and then the "brilliant order of girls" (puellarum ... ordo coruscus), Rotrud, Bertha, Gisela, Ruodhaid, Theodrada and Hiltrud.
The history of the Krayenburg castle began on 31 August 786 when Charlemagne gave the village of Dorndorf, including all of its belongings, to Hersfeld Abbey.
The work is an adaptation of the story of Charlemagne's battles in Spain and the adventures of his nephew, the paladin Orlando (Roland), including the tale of his mortal duel with Ferraguto and his ultimate death at Roncesvalles.
In 2010 he composed actor Christopher Lee's first concept album, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross which will become a full-fledged musical in 2013.
Their relics later suffered various vicissitudes: some were transferred to the churches of Sant'Adriano al Foro and Santa Prassede, in Rome, and part of these relics were sent to Eginhard, biographer of Charlemagne, who lodged them in the monastery of Seligenstadt.
Two charters from 802 and 804 show that Mauroald and his successor Benedict financed the military service of two brothers from the Sabina, Probatus and Picco, sons of Ursus of the Pandoni family, who were serving the army of Charlemagne then targeting the Principality of Benevento.
There is evidence that the earliest Western musical notation, in the form of neumes in campo aperto (without staff-lines), was created at Metz around 800, as a result of Charlemagne's desire for Frankish church musicians to retain the performance nuances used by the Roman singers.
A similar Charlemagne legend relates that a fragment of the cross was given to William of Gellone and kept in the monastery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.
regardless of historical verisimilitude (Pepin the Hunchback, for example, is supposed to have been sent to Saint Gall as punishment for his rebellion, and – in a trope owed to Livy's tale of Tarquin and the poppies – earns a promotion to rich Prüm Abbey after advising Charlemagne through an implicit parable of hoeing thistles to execute another group of rebels).
The Song of Roland, an 11th-century Old French epic poem, may have served as the inspiration for the name "California" The poem refers to the defeat suffered August 15, 778, in the retreat of Charlemagne's army at the hands of the Muslim army in Battle of Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees.
Zadar was the capital of Byzantine Dalmatia, but an example of Carolingian architecture is also found there, indicating that Zadar may once have belonged to the Franks and possibly explaining a visit of Bishop Donatus to Charlemagne in Dietenhofen.
Until 1566, the Diocese of Bayonne included much Spanish territory, i.e. the four Archpresbyteries of Baztan, Lerin, Bortziria in Navarre, and Hondarribia in Guipuzcoa, a remnant of Charlemagne's conquests beyond the Pyrenees.
According to the report of a monk from Reichenau Abbey the founder was believed to be Count Hunfried of Chur-Rhaetia, who was said to have promised Charlemagne to make the foundation for the worthy safekeeping of a precious reliquary cross containing a fragments of the True Cross, as well as an onyx vessel containing some of the Blood of Christ.
The United States Playing Card Company suggests that in the past, the King of Hearts was Charlemagne, the King of Diamonds was Julius Caesar, the King of Clubs was Alexander the Great, and the King of Spades was the Biblical King David (see King (playing card)).
She is very brave and feels that she should be part of the action, a fact that is evident in the third Revolution book, The Continental Risque, when the Charlemagne is fighting a British man-o-war, and Isaac asks her to go below to protect her, and she stays on deck and shoots at the British sailors with a pistol instead.