Charlemagne the Greatest Monarch
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France, Germany, and Italy
A lot of monarchs ruled Europe during this time, and many were outstanding. However, personally I see that Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, was the most powerful. Western Europe had a moment of unity when Charlemagne, the grandson of Charles Martel, built an empire reaching across France, Germany, and Italy. He wasn't just a ruthless ruler; Charlemagne married five times and had numerous concubines and children. He kept his family around him nearly always, sometimes bringing his sons with him on campaigns.
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Destructive Wars
I think he was the most successful monarch because he achieved a lot during his 46 years of reign. He spent much of his reign fighting different people in different places, such as the Muslims in Spain, the Saxons in the north, the Avars and Slavs in the east, and the Lombards in Italy. He was an old fashioned war chief that cherished battle and was an extraordinary conqueror who reunited much of the old Roman Empire in Europe.
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Charlemagne crowned as Holy Roman Emperor
He also accomplished an enormous achievement. In which a Christian pope had crowned him, a Germanic king successor, to the Roman Emperors, because he defeated the rebellious nobles on Christmas Day 800. By doing so, he revived the ideal of a united Christian Empire. He also worked closely with the Church, helping to spread Christianity to the conquered peoples on the outskirts of his empire. This clears that he was working nonstop trying to spread Christianity and uniting his empire.
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Palace School at Aachen
Not only did he try to unify his empire. However, he hoped to make his capital at Aachen a "Second Rome". To achieve this significant goal, he made determined efforts to revive Latin learning throughout his empire and then to the world. To promote education and learning, he managed to set up a palace school at Aachen. Then, he appointed a respected scholar, Alcuin of York, to run the school. Alcuin set up a curriculum of study based on Latin learning, which became the educational model for medieval Europe. The studies included grammar, science, and astronomy etc. As a conclusion, I think that he was the most powerful monarch of his time. He set a strong, efficient government, and later medieval rulers looked to his example when they tried to centralize their own kingdoms.