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- Charlemagne
- Charles the Great, 6'8, atheletic, handsome, intelligent, ruled franks for 46 years, fought 54 wars, "song of roland"
- Louis the Pius
- inherited Frankish empire 814 CE, had 3 incompitent sons
- Pope Leo III
- The Rake, fled Rome in disgrace, turned to Charlemagne for aid, Charlemagne reinstated the Pope, 800 CE Christmas Day while Charlemagne knelt praying Pope spontaneously crowned Charlemagne emporer of the Romans
- Gaiseric
- Sacked Rome even worse than teh Visigoths, killed the last king of the Romans who was a 14 yr old boy named Romulus, began the final slide of Roman power
- Thor
- Odin's son, thunderbolts for weapons
- Odin
- God of the dead, giver of victory, gave people mead, suffered on a tree
- Pepin III
- Pepin and army marched on lombards confiscated territory around Rome and gave to Pope, the gift of Pepin became Papal States to be ruled by popes
- Alaric
- had been imperial commander to Rome, attacked Rome in August 410 CE, army occupied Rome for 3 days, legend of tomb in the bedrock beneath the Busento River
- Pope Stephan
- 754 CE traveled to Frankish kingdom and crowned Pepin III as king
- Louis, Charles, Lothair
- 3 incompitent sons of Louis the Pius, fought and divided instead of uniting
- Alboin
- famous lombard leader, made his wife drink a wedding toast to him from a cup made from her father's skull, in revenge she had him killed
- Theodoric the Great
- ruled Italy as sole leader, but w/ 2 govts one for the Romans, repaired aquaducts, encouraged Latin learning, tried to preserve Roman culture, tolerated various religions, helped barbarians and Romans co-exist peacefully