A History of Charlemagne

THE three grandest names of Carlovingian lineage are so closely connected, and so nearly contemporary, that the history of one of their number necessarily involves that of the others. For this reason a sketch of the memorable career of the first Charles, surnamed "the Hammer," may not be an inappropriate introduction to the life of his grandson, and namesake, called "the Great."
Pepin of Heristal, the father of Charles Martel, and conqueror of Testry, presided, for a period of twenty-seven y...