The Life of Charlemagne

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1. We know most of what we know about Charlemagne due to the biography or biographies that we have about him. Who wrote this or these biographies? Neither of these men Einhard Both of these men Notker the Stammerer

2. Who crowned Charlemagne in 800 AD? His father The Pope His uncle He crowned himself

3. What does Charlemagne mean? Charles the Great Charles the Conqueror Charles the Fat Charles the Enlightened

4. Who was Charlemagne's father? Pepin the Short Charles the Fat Charles Martel Einhard

5. When was Charlemagne born? c. 768 AD c. 730 AD c. 742 AD c. 755 AD

6. Pope Stephen II crowned Pepin the Short as king of the Franks in 754 AD, because Pepin promised to support the church. The current king was Childeric III, last of which dynasty? Merovingian Aquitainian Capetian Carolingian

7. Who was Charlemagne's brother? Charles Louis Notker Carloman

8. What is the name of Charlemagne's efforts to improve education and literacy in his kingdom? The Enlightenment The Capetian Renaissance The Capetian Rule The Carolingian Renaissance

9. Which French dynasty later claimed, through the church, to have found documents tracing their line back to Charlemagne himself? The Capetians The Aquitainians The Bourbons The Carolingians

10. Charlemagne had three sons and three daughters by his second wife Hildegard. The daughters were named Rotrude, Bertha and Gisela. What were the names of the three sons? Charles, Pepin and Louis Charles, Peter and Devon Charles, Carloman and Pepin Charles, Einhard and Stewart