a state of the arch blade there were no better swords to be found any. around four hundred of these blades have been found usually in the graves of significant men a warrior was given his weapons to take with him to the afterlife even though they would have cost a fortune his axis spear shield and sword the weapons of the frankish warriors. by the age of fifteen charles has completed his warrior training in a solemn ceremony he repeats the oath he swore once before as a young boy. is still over i ve always to use my royal power trip. tech christianity and to spread the divine truth right. now that
perspective either and these wars are waged by these different tribes meaning that one victory by charlemagne definitely doesn t mean that all the saxon tribes have been defeated. one year after the war against the saxons charles crossed the house with his army in order to conquer the lombard kingdom he hoped to annex the ancient roman province of italia into his frankish empire even though the long buds were christians. he besieged their capital for many months he stuffed the population into surrender in pursuit of his vision to become the equal of the roman emperor in the east in constantinople he wanted to resurrect the western roman empire.
a powerful dentistry of his own one with which the pope to to enter into an alliance eighteen yes before the attack on the saxons the young charles barely six years old has an encounter that will become a key experience for him. and pope stephen the second has come from rome to talk to charles s found at the frankish king pepin to forge an alliance was the first to stop just. the pontiff was in need of an armed guard in order to defend his position in italy and the franks wanted the pope to recognize the kingdom. young chose greets him ceremoniously. and am on a spot as happy to come and pops it close up i don t and i am an animist touch people get caught up i don t in an unmanaged i just cringe in pain. aish dunkerque
the west was to be preserved in this way. shifting to what a notion i am gives the lettering we used today goes back to this educational reform to the carolingian minuscule with word divisions and clearly legible letters which meant that the most important ancient and religious texts could be disseminated and read in the whole frankish empire and you re right about i found. charlemagne promoted the establishment of monasteries latin schools and libraries all across his empire and to this day there are many precious collections of manuscripts from the time. charlemagne all over europe such as in the benedictine melkor monastery overlooking the danube in austria they are outstanding witnesses
paid for this most well. he will avenge the streets. challenge the young frankish king so to defeat in subjugate the saxons his father and grandfather before him had steadily expanded the frankish empire through. west . but here at the sacred location of iran and so much more was at stake charles wanted to stamp out the competing culture he wanted there to be just one face wherever he wrote his face. god god is on the side of the franks. there to see it with their own eyes. tear down the idle.