ver saw his brother again. Carloman died suddenly in 771, Charles received Carlomans inheritance, uniting the empire under one ruler once again. By the persuasion of his mother Charles married in 770 to the daughter of Lombard King Desidarius. He dismissed her after a year and conquered the lands of his father in law. This pleased the Pope since Desidarius lands surrounded the Papal States. The Pope wanted Charlemagne to rule because of his vow to protect the Papal States.Charles inherited his fathers unfinished battles, Charlemagne fought it with much more energy and brought it to a different conclusion, (pg. 60) Once he completed these battles, he began a series of wars with the Saxons in the north in 772 that lasted for over thirty years. Finally, in 804 he conquered them Simultaneously he was engaged in other battles in which he was victorious, thus proving his greatness as a military leader. Charlemagne Retains PowerEven though the reign of Charlemagne was one long and never ending series of warlike enterprises (pg. 7) he managed to engage himself in other activities. Charles wanted to strengthen his empire and bring order to Europe. Charles was involved in diplomatic relationships between different rulers around the world. Through these relationships he made peace treaties with many different monarchies. He invited noble lords from his land and others to keep friendly relations through out the territory. He kept up a close relationship with the Pope. He visited him many times in Rome throughout his reign. In 800 on Christmas day the Pope named him emperor and for the first time in history a Pope bowed before an earthly king. To keep his empire in order Charles was constantly creating new laws and edicts. However there were not enough men to see that they were observed. This is common to all centralized governments though. Charles gave the lower lords more land in exchange for them to deal with border control and defense. This ide...
