The emperor of the Franks who conquered much of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire was Charles the Great, also known as Charlemagne.
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Charlemagne means Charles the Great. Charlemagne was the King of the Franks from 768, the King of Italy from 774, and the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800. He was the first western European emperor since the Western Roman Empire collapsed and united most of Western Europe. Both the French and German monarchies saw their kingdoms as descendants of his Carolingian empire.
Charlemagne means Charles the Great. Charlemagne was the King of the Franks from 768, the King of Italy from 774, and the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800. He was the first western European emperor since the Western Roman Empire collapsed and united most of Western Europe. Both the French and German monarchies saw their kingdoms as descendants of his Carolingian empire.
Charlemagne means Charles the Great. Charlemagne was the King of the Franks from 768, the King of Italy from 774, and the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800. He was the first western European emperor since the Western Roman Empire collapsed and united most of western Europe. Both the French and German monarchies saw their kingdoms as descendants of his Carolingian empire.
It was the Franks. They took over the whole of Gaul at the expense of the Alemanni, Visgoths and Burgundians, who were Germanics who had settled in Gaul. They also took over southern Germany and Switzerland. The Frankish kingdom was turned into the Carolingian empire. The pope asked Charlemagne (king of the Franks) to crush the rule of the Lombards (another Germanic people). In exchange the pope gave him Italy and crowned him emperor. Charlemagne also invaded part of norther Spain. The then invaded northern Germany. His empire covered most of continental western Europe, except for Portugal, most of Spain and Scandinavia.
The Franks formally established their empire with the rise of the Carolingian Dynasty in 751.