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The Connections of Charlemagne
King of the Franks crowned first Holy Roman Emperor, father of Europe Every person recorded alongside Charlemagne in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Charlemagne in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Pepin the Short, Bertrada of Laon
- Spouses
- Desiderata of the Lombards, Hildegard of Vinzgouw, Fastrada, Luitgard, Himiltrude, Liutperga
- Children
- Louis the Pious, Pepin the Hunchback, Charles the Younger, Rotrude, Bertha, Pepin of Italy, Gisela, Theodrada, Drogo, Hugh, Alpaïs of Paris, Adelaide
- Siblings
- Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, Adelheid, Chrothais, Carloman I, Pepin
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 748 CE to 814 CE.
Medieval era
Mahavira
800 CE – 875 CE
Mathematician
Medieval era
Adi Shankara
788 CE – 820 CE
An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.
Medieval era
Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah
722 CE – 754 CE
First Abbasid
Medieval era
Abu Jafar al-Mansur
714 CE – October 7, 775 CE
Second Abbasid Caliph (714-775)
Medieval era
Al-Mu'tasim
796 CE – January 5, 842 CE
8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
Medieval era
Harun al-Rashid
March 7, 766 CE – March 24, 809 CE
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
Medieval era
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 750 CE – 846 CE
Mathematician of Baghdad who gave the world algebra and algorithms
Medieval era
Li Bai
May 19, 701 CE – November 30, 762 CE
Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (701–762)
Medieval era
Du Fu
712 CE – 770 CE
Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)
Medieval era
Al-Jahiz
775 CE – 868 CE
Arabic writer (776–869)
Medieval era
Fatima al-Fihri
800 CE – 880 CE
Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
Medieval era
Offa of Mercia
c. 800 CE – July 29, 796 CE
King of Mercia