Charles the Great
Americannoun
noun
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His name was French for Charles the Great.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a treasure-trove of antique detail, she shows that just as life under Charles the Great had been purposeful and pious, life without him was chaos.
From Time Magazine Archive
The saying expresses the Ghibelline view of the relation of the Empire to the Pope; it may have originated with the coronation of Charles the Great.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Charles the Great came to Florence, and granted privileges to the city, and caused Santo Apostolo to be built.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
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