Charlemagne Quotes

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

You are more noble in your wisdom. You are more awe inspiring in the dignity of your kingdom. The well-being of the churches of Christ rests on you alone.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

Dark Ages