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1. We know most of what we know about Charlemagne due to the biography or biographies that we have about him. Who wrote this or these biographies?
2. Who crowned Charlemagne in 800 AD?
3. What does Charlemagne mean?
4. Who was Charlemagne's father?
5. When was Charlemagne born?
6. Pope Stephen II crowned Pepin the Short as king of the Franks in 754 AD, because Pepin promised to support the church. The current king was Childeric III, last of which dynasty?
7. Who was Charlemagne's brother?
8. What is the name of Charlemagne's efforts to improve education and literacy in his kingdom?
9. Which French dynasty later claimed, through the church, to have found documents tracing their line back to Charlemagne himself?
10. Charlemagne had three sons and three daughters by his second wife Hildegard. The daughters were named Rotrude, Bertha and Gisela. What were the names of the three sons?
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