Charlemagne’s devotion to Christianity—and his protection of the popes—was recognized on Christmas Day 800, when Pope Leo III crowned ... years—the Holy Roman Empire.

Upon the death of his cousin Otto III in 1002, Henry succeeded him as king. Pope Benedict VIII crowned him Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1014. During his reign, Henry shared his faith by ...

The Holy Roman Empire came into being in Rome on Christmas Day, 800, when Pope Leo III placed the crown on ... none was greater than learning of Emperor Henry IV assuming the position of general ...

persuaded Pope Leo III to name him emperor, a title that hadn’t been held in the West in three centuries. Charlemagne’s successors built what came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire.

the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the Abbey’s collection and was used in 1267 during the reign of Henry III, shares a pattern and weaver with Charlemagne’s burial shroud.

SUMMITS were more fun in those days. When Ferdinand III, the Habsburg monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, arrived in Regensburg, the Brussels of its time, in late 1652, he brought 60 musicians and ...

Christian history begins with the life and death of Jesus Christ and continues with the formation of the early Christian church, Emperor Constantine's Holy Roman Empire and the great schism into ...

And in the late 700s AD it was the capital of Europe, of the Holy Roman Empire founded by the Emperor Charles 1st, Karolus Magnus, better known as Charlemagne. Anne McElvoy is joined in Aachen by ...