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lunasun

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17. Huh? not mine *killed all non christians to create a christian kingdom

Reply to packman (Reply #9)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 11:10 AM

Feb 2014

First non-white Muslims then
he launched a bloody war of extermination against the Saxon and other pagan German tribes under his control.
So after killing thousands of pagans, Charlemagne did manage to create a virtually uniform Christian kingdom

Head of the Holy Roman Empire by death and destruction
If you can't convert them kill them ? no not my kind of king but each to his own

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My kind of king packman Feb 2014 #9

Huh? not mine *killed all non christians to create a christian kingdom lunasun Feb 2014 #17

Looking at Middle Age packman Feb 2014 #18

Our modern popular image of Medieval monarchs pretty much comes from him. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #23

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