Charlemagne

Standard Name: Charlemagne

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Family and Intimate relationships Susannah Gunning
She was then resident in the parish of St Clement Danes, London. John Gunning hailed from Castlecoote House in Roscommon, near the border with Galway. (This handsome house, built at the end...
Publishing Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
A course of newspaper advertisements began for The Knights of the Swan; or, The Court of Charlemagne , an Historical and Moral Tale, a translation by James Beresford of a work by SFG .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Residence Frances Trollope
She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne 's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region...
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
This book is often seen as a sequel, and it retails the same type of scandal as the New Atalantis, but without the supernatural mediating characters. It too purports to be translated: this time...

Timeline

813: At the Council of Tours, Charlemagne, in...

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813

At the Council of Tours , Charlemagne , in the last year before he died, ordered sermons to be preached in local tongues instead of Latin.
Rickard, Peter. A History of the French Language. Hutchinson, 1974.
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Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
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15 July 1099: The First Crusade ended with the fall of...

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15 July 1099

The First Crusade ended with the fall of Jerusalem to the Franci or Christians. The epic slaughter on this occasion was long remembered.
Nelson, J. L. “Eastern Promises”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2008, pp. 30-2.
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