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2 unusual facts about Order of Charlemagne


Order of Charlemagne

The Grand Master of the Order is the Prime Minister of the Principality of Andorra (currently Antoni Martí) and the Grand Chancellor is the Minister of Culture (currently Albert Esteve).

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.



see also

Council of Frankfurt

The Council of Frankfurt possessed a Memorandum about iconodulism, which had been produced previously by Frankish theologians on the order of Charlemagne concerning the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy: the Libri Carolini.