MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The Reign of Charlemagne

Charlemagne (Charles the Great) (768-814)
Carolingian Renaissance
Lombards
Spanish intervention
Caliph of Baghdad
Abd al-Rahman I (Emir of Spain)
Saragossa (Zaragosa)
Pamplona
Roland
Roncevaux (Roncesvalles)
Louis the Pious (814-840)
Spanish March
March (Mark; Marquisate)
Chanson de Geste (Song of Deeds)
Chanson de Roland
Sigfried
Ring of the Nibelungen (Nibelungenlied)
Thomas Mallory/Crétian de Troyes
Cult of Courtly Love
Einhard
Saxons
Saxon genocide
Reconquista
First Crusade (1095-1099)
Crusader Kingdoms
Acre (1291)
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile (married 1469)
Conquest of Granada (1492)
Drang Nach Osten
Adolf Hitler (Lebensraum)
Forced Conversion
Theodosius
Alcuin
Count (from comites, Latin for “companion”)
County
Marquess (marquis)
Marquisate; March; Mark
System of Checks and Balances
Viscount
Missus dominicus
Pope Leo III
Crowning of Charlemagne (Christmas Day, 800)
Palace School