2-660-783 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Karl der Große, 742-814', 1934. Charlemagne or Charles the Great (742- 814), Charles I was the King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Emperor of the Romans from 800. He united much of Europe during the early Middle Ages. He was the first recognised emperor in western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]