The coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in 800. Charlemagne, aka Charles the Great, 747 - 814. Member of the Carolingian dynasty,King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy Roman Emperor from 800. From Histoire de France, published 1855.

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