Charles the Great
Americannoun
noun
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His name was French for Charles the Great.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
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
And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro.
From Time Magazine Archive
The few marble columns which Charles the Great carried away from Rome, as well as from Ravenna, can have gone but a very little way towards accounting for so vast a havoc.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
Desiderius, son of Telofre, began war again with Holy Church, for the which thing Charles the Great passed into Italy, and defeated him, and took away and destroyed the lordship of the Lombards.
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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