Ruler · 747 – 814

Charlemagne

Lived 747 – 814; monarch. King of Franks of Francia, 768 – 814; also in the line of Kingdom of the Lombards.

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Lived: 747 – 814; 67 years
In office: 46 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Franks

Francia · the 21st of 22 dated reigns · 458 – 840

17 before

Childeric III743 – 751

Pepin the Short751 – 768

Carloman I768 – 771

Charlemagne768 – 814

Louis the Pious814 – 840

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 768 – 814 · 46 years · came to it aged 26

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; disease

He was deposed and sent to a monastery, and Charlemagne absorbed Bavaria into his kingdom.

Also in the line of Kingdom of the Lombards.

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