 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 296 pages
...800, in the sacred temple of St. Peter. 12. The emperor died at Aix-la-Chapelle, his usual residence, AD 814, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his reign. The glory of the French empire seemed to expire with him. He possessed all France, all Germany, part... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 582 pages
...intimating thereby, that he held it only of God. The emperor died at Aix-la-Chapelle, his usual residence, in the seventyfirst year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his reign. The glory of the French empire seemed to expire with him. He possessed all France, all Germany, part... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pages
...and his people.* Charlemagne survived this remarkable ceremony only a few months; breathing his last in the seventy-first year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign. t The character of Charlemagne has been perhaps sufficiently described in the political, the military,... | |
 | Elihu Rich - Biography - 1856 - 1080 pages
...dethroned and exiled by Nicephorus. From this period to his death, which took place at Aix-la-Chapelle, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his reign, he was engaged in fortifying the coasts of France against the Northmen, and various matters relating... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...making him feel that he was approaching the termination of his career. He died the 28th of January, 814, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his reign. By his will, made in 806, confirmed by the French lords assembled at Thionville, and signed by Pope... | |
 | Elizabeth Peake - Emperors - 1874 - 600 pages
...German. Besides his Capitularies there are letters and Latin poems ascribed to him. He died January 28, 814, in the seventy-first year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign, and was buried in the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, in full imperial costume, seated on a throne of... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Christian biography - 1878 - 1146 pages
...matters relating to the security of the empire. He died at Aix-la-Chapclle, his capital, January 28, 814, in the seventyfirst year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his reign. Before his death he confirmed the succession of his son Louis by an august ceremony. Placing the imperial... | |
 | Charles Stedman Ripley - 1895 - 140 pages
...dethroned and exiled by Nicephorus. From this period to his death, which took place at Aix-laChapelle, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the fortyseventh of his reign, he was engaged in fortifying the coasts of France against the Northmen, and various matters relating... | |
 | 1895 - 624 pages
...retirement. He lingered till May 21, 1895, when he unconsciously entered into rest at Wetheral, Carlisle, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his ministry. (23) JOSHUA JOHNSON ; who was born at Davyhulme, near Manchester, in 1840. His parents were... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - World history - 1897 - 430 pages
...his attack, having received the communion at the hands of the bishop, he quietly expired, being then in the seventy-first year of his age and the forty-seventh of his remarkable reign. In so far as the energies of Charlemagne were devoted to the great work of erecting... | |
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Aix-la-Chapelle, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the forty-seventh of his reign... 