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Charlemagne is a man you might not know much about. If you flip through a recent big, bright, colorful synopsis of world history—the type of book on display at bookstores—it’s doubtful you can discover even a paragraph about this great man. And yet we are all debtors to his legacy. Here are a few facts so you can know him better.

Charlemagne was a great leader, and storytellers used him for centuries as a symbol to inspire people. The most famous tale is The Song of Roland, written by Turold around 1100 A.D., 300 years after Charlemagne died. Just as his grandfather, Charles “the Hammer,” stopped Muslim slavers in the south, Charles the Great stopped Saxon threats from the north. He ruled an area that stretched from France through Germany, North Italy, and Serbia, uniting regions for the first time since the Classical era. His renewed dedication to learning also protected his people from ignorance and heresy. Total Hero.

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