Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

Later that same century, Pope St. Leo III crowned Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor, another influential office which would shape the Western world for centuries.

Back in 324AD, the first St Peters was knocked up - as it were - and it was still going strong in 800AD when Charlemagne spent his Christmas Day being crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

When we last left Frederick II, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor after years of struggle. But this episode dives into Frederick’s fraught relationship with the papacy, his bold diplomacy with ...

Sharon Stone "feels particularly good" after finding out that she has royal blood in her veins.. The actress recently appeared on the TV series Finding Your Roots, which looks at the ancestry of ...

Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, fathered at least 18 children during his lifetime, from which all Europeans are descended, according to experts.

Sharon Stone learned she was related to King Charlemagne in Finding Your Roots. See her reaction. ... The King of the Franks was the first crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the year 800, ...

Stone was baffled when Gates Jr. told her: "Charlemagne (the former king who transformed Europe) is your 38th great-grandfather. The first holy Roman Emperor. He was a mean dude.

Sharon was lost for words when host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Sharon: 'Charlemagne (the former king who transformed Europe) is your 38th great-grandfather. The first holy Roman Emperor. He ...

On January 28, 814, Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire died in Aachen ... King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire died in Aachen, Austrasia. Home; ...