[DOC] [TLE] Charlemagne - Wikipedia [PAR] Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great or Charles I (Frankish: Karl), was 
King of the Franks. He united a large part of Europe during the early Middle Ages 
and laid the foundations for modern France, Germany and the Low Countries. He 
took the Frankish throne in 768 and became King of Italy in 774. ... All Holy 
Roman Emperors up to the last Emperor Francis II, as well as both... [DOC] [TLE] Kingdom of the Lombards - Wikipedia [PAR] The Kingdom of the Lombards (Latin: Regnum Langobardorum) also known as 
the Lombard ... Frankish invasion, June 774 .... In 584 the dukes agreed to crown 
king Cleph's son, Autari, and delivered to the new monarch half ..... Adelchi tells 
the story of the last king of the Lombards, Desiderius and his children 
Ermengarde... [DOC] [TLE] Desiderius - Wikipedia [PAR] Desiderius (died c. 786) was the last king of the Lombard Kingdom of northern 
Italy, ruling from 756 to 774 ... The Lombards were severely defeated at Mortara (
Ara Mortis) and soon besieged in ... Charlemagne took the title rex 
Langobardorum, the first time a Germanic king adopted the title of a kingdom he 
had conquered. [DOC] [TLE] Gerberga, wife of Carloman I - Wikipedia [PAR] Gerberga (8th century) was the wife of Carloman I, King of the Franks, and sister-
in-law of Charlemagne. Her flight to the Lombard kingdom of Desiderius 
following Carloman's death precipitated the last Franco-Lombard war, and the 
end of the independent kingdom of the Lombards in 774. ... Desiderius was 
besieged at Pavia, the Lombard capital; Gerberga took... [DOC] [TLE] Charlemagne Conquers the Lombards [PAR] ... but ended abruptly just four years later -- after King Desiderius imprudently 
thrust ... Charles I, King of the Franks, who was known as Charlemagne [Charles 
the ... defeating the Lombards at their capital of Pavia in the summer of 774. ... In 
787 Pope Hadrian was induced to crown Charlemagne's son Pepin as King of 
Italy. [DOC] [TLE] Ancient World History: Ostrogoths and Lombards [PAR] The Ostrogoths and Lombards were Germanic barbarians who successively ... 
and strangled by her husband, Theodahad, who took the Ostrogothic crown for 
himself. ... He returned in 756, forcing Aistulf to acknowledge the Frank as his 
overlord. ... who in 774 made a prisoner of the last Lombard king, Desiderius, and 
had... [DOC] [TLE] Charlemagne - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] May 8, 2013 ... Pippin had killed in war the last duke of Aquitaine, Waifer. ... Desiderius instead 
took over certain papal cities and invaded the Pentapolis, heading for Rome. ... 
Charlemagne was now master of Italy as king of the Lombards. .... king of Italy, 
taking the Iron Crown which his father had first worn in 774 C.E. His... [DOC] [TLE] 1911 Encyclopdia Britannica/Lombards - Wikisource, the free ... [PAR] Jan 5, 2015 ... LOMBARDS, or Langobardi, a Suevic people who appear to have inhabited the 
... Alboin, who had slain Cunimund in the battle, now took Rosamund, .... In return 
for the transfer by the pope of the Frank crown from the ... Desiderius, the last king
, became a prisoner (774), and the Lombard power perished. [DOC] [TLE] Charlemagne | Catholic Answers [PAR] Charles, King of the Franks; first sovereign of the Christian Empire of the West ... 
civil, and even ecclesiastical, of which Childeric's crown was only the symbol. ... 
of Pavia (774); 2 From 774 to the Baptism of Wittekind (Widukind) in 785; 3 Last 
.... Patrimony was Desiderius (Didier), King of the Lombards, and it was with this... [DOC] [TLE] PIPPIN AND CHARLES THE GREAT [PAR] Carloman had been a friend of Desiderius, the Lombard king. ... prisoner and 
confined in a monastery, and Charles became king of the Lombards in 774. ... No 
war ever undertaken by the Frank nation was carried on with such persistence ... 
At last, after conquering and subduing all who had offered resistance, he took ten

Question: In 774 this Frank took the crown of Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards
Answer: Charlemagne