The Frankish king Charlemagne, also known as Carolus Magnus and Charles I, is called the “father of Europe” for good reasons ...

Flaxseed was cultivated in Babylon as early as 3000 BC. In the 8th century, King Charlemagne believed so strongly in the health benefits of flaxseed that he passed laws requiring his subjects to ...

The crowning and anointing by Adalbero of Hugh Capet at Noyon, the site of Charlemagne’s coronation as king of the Franks in 768, with the sacred chrism reserved for Frankish kings, and his symbolic ...