Reign of Charlemagne (jan 8, 768 – sep 8, 814)
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 In A.D. 768 Charles the Great, or Charlemagne as he is usually called, succeeded his father Pepin. He was a great statesman and a great conqueror, one of his first conquests being that of the Lombards. But greater than Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombards was his conquest of the Saxons. 
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