Stories of persons and places in Europe . at grandson of CharlesMartel, who,was not contented with the ex-tent of his dominions, and at once went tomaking war on his neighbors. He marchedinto Italy and conquered the Lombards,who had taken possession of the northern part; then into Spam andtook from the Moors all of the country north of the Ebro ; then up intoSaxony, where he met the sturdy Wittikind, with whom he had a longstruggle This country gave him more trouble than all the others, but itwas compelled to yield to the great Karl at last. Then he was king fromthe Ebro in Spain to the Baltic
Stories of persons and places in Europe . at grandson of CharlesMartel, who,was not contented with the ex-tent of his dominions, and at once went tomaking war on his neighbors. He marchedinto Italy and conquered the Lombards,who had taken possession of the northern part; then into Spam andtook from the Moors all of the country north of the Ebro ; then up intoSaxony, where he met the sturdy Wittikind, with whom he had a longstruggle This country gave him more trouble than all the others, but itwas compelled to yield to the great Karl at last. Then he was king fromthe Ebro in Spain to the Baltic, and from the Atlantic to the Oder. Sogreat a conqueror had not lived since Osesar. The great object that led Charlmagne to make all these conquests wasthat he might unite again all the broken fragments of the fallen RomanEmpire He wished to see law and order and learning, such as the Romanshad maintained, take the place of the confusion that had reigned since thecoining of the barbarians. And he wished to see the Christian religion, in. CHARLEMAGNE. 302 Persons and Places in Europe. which he was a zealous believer, take the place of Paganism and Moham-medanism. As soon, therefore, as he had put together this vast region, nearly allthat had belonged to the Western Roman Empire, he went to Italy and wascrowned by the Pope, Emperor of Rome. Then he went home, and beganto make laws, to erect tine buildings and establish schools of learning. Heset an example to his subjects by studying nearly everything that was thentaught, and tried to learn to write, but his fingers were so stiff with carry-ing the sword that he did not make much progress. He contented himselfwith the thought that his young subjects were enjoying privileges whichno one had been wise enough to provide for him. When Charlemagne died his body was placed in a great Mausoleum atAix-la-Chapelle, not in a coffin but on his throne clothed in his imperial robes,with his crown upon his head, his sceptre in his hand and hi
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