Charlemagne (748–814) ruled a vast empire ... from Henry III’s brother, Richard Earl of Cornwall who is known to have given ...

But they disappeared and Richard III, Edward IV ... with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared himself ...

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.

Comparison between Charlemagne’s burial shroud (left) and Henry III silk bag (right ... recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Roman Empire, making him the first Holy Roman ...

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.

Between 768 and 814 CE, Charlemagne—also known as Karl or Charles the Great—ruled an empire ... Holy Roman Emperor. 1. His father wasn’t born a king. Charlemagne’s father, Pepin III ...

On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish king Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Rome after being assaulted ...

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 ...

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 ...