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the guy who conquered half of europe and then made it learn to read.
means a frankish king crowned holy roman emperor in 800 who reunited western europe by the sword and then tried to civilize it with schools and monks.
from from latin carolus magnus, meaning charles the great, a title he earned by ruling an empire that stretched from the pyrenees to the danube.
height claimskeleton suggests he was roughly six foot four
literacycould barely write his own name
empire sizelargest in western europe since rome fell
coronation surpriseclaimed he did not know pope would crown him