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NO sooner had Charles made a partage with his Brother Charle∣mayne, but he was enforced to restraine Lupus Duke of Gascoigne, and Hunaut of Aquitaine with including them in a Fort called Fressac, built
neare to Libourne. After that, mar∣rying with the daughter or sister of Di∣dier, King of the Lombards, he entertai∣ned Trasilon Duke of Bavaria, into his amity. The yeare following, Char∣lemaine deceased, leaving two sonnes, whom Charles permitted not to govern in their fathers estate, but annexed it to his owne. After that hee made warre upon the Saxons, and in the yeare 773. at the request of Pope A∣drian, hee tooke Didier in Pavia, whom hee confined in banishment to Liege, recovering all the possessions he had in Italy. And the same yeare he re∣turned against the Saxons, where hee founded a Fort by the name of Franc∣fort. Againe, being gone into Italy against Adelgise, sonne of Didier, who was revolted, hee returned immediate∣ly against the Saxons, whom he for∣ced to imbrace Christianity. Anno Domini 776. The same yeare hee tooke from the Sarazens in Spaine, Pampelonne, Saragosa, and made many
Kings tributaries: in his returne from thence the Gascognes slew most of the best men of France. Hee subdued the Bretons of the lower Brittagne, who had revolted: and Anno Domini 787. He tooke the fidelity of Adagise, Duke of Benevent, and of Trasilon, Duke of Bavaria, whereupon he confiscated to his owne use, the whole Countrey of Bavaria, and enforced Theodon, and his sonne to a Monasticke life. Hee overthrew likewise the Sclavonians, and the Vandals, who held the Coun∣trey of Brandebourg, Malgebourg, and Pomerania, and also the Huns, and Avarois, who at that time possessed Pannonia. Hee was saluted Emperor Anno Domini 801. upon Chistmas day. And having received presents from the King of Persia, hee was sought in marriage by the Empresse of Irene. After that, having combated the Ʋenetians by his sonne Pepin, and defeated the Normans; and having founded the Vniversities of Paris,
Bologne and Pavia; an intending to u∣nite the Channell of the Rhine with that of Danubius, he was intercepted by Death, Anno Domini 814 beeing threescore and twelve yeares of Age, having reigned over the French sixe and forty yeares, and of Italy three and forty, and of his Empire foureteene, and lyes inhumed in Aix la Cha∣pelle.
This Charles got some addition to his name, as Alexander the Great, being indeed great in the gifts of body and minde, Arts, and Armes. The ground-worke whereon he raised noble Trophies to Fame, was Religion, to which he give due honour, and from thence deriving Morall perfections, he grew an admired Prince, naturally favouring the Muses, learned in the Greeke and Latin languages. Philo∣sophy, the Mathematicks, and other Sciences, hee cal'd his pastimes and companions of his sword. Something he wrot in Poetry for recreation, but
he especially delighted in History, the Register of noble Actions.
The Acts of Charlemaine in the Life of his Brother Caroloman, were many, and most renowned, and also when he was King alone, but when he was enstalled Emperour, he crowned all those actions by his care of the Church, and his godly preparing for Death: for hee was much enclined to to the reading of such Bookes as were for the bettering of his understanding, and which tended to the leading of a vertuous and godly life; as may appeare by his spending three yeares in reading the Bible and St. Augustines Bookes be∣fore he dyed. And the Character of his Life was: That his vertue was the pa∣terne of Princes, and his good fortune the subject of their wishes.