Karl (father of Pepin)

Also known as: Karl · Family: Franks · Role: king · First appears: Book Eight · Part 22

Life events

Karl crushed Germany in war and forced it to accept Christianity and his authority.(Book Eight · Part 22 · 📍 Germany)
- “Meanwhile it befell that Karl, King of the Franks, crushed Germany in war, and forced it not only to embrace the worship of Christianity, but also to obey his authority.”
Karl entrusted Pepin with conducting the war against Gotrik.(Book Eight · Part 22)
- With: Pepin
- “Obeying this command, Karl intrusted his son Pepin with the conduct of the war against Gotrik; so that while he himself was working against a distant foe, Pepin might manage the conflict he had undertaken with his neighbour.”
Karl freed the people from the burden of the tax.(Book Eight · Part 23)
- “Karl is said to have freed them afterwards from the burden of this tax.”
Ragnar defeated Karl's army in battle.(Book Nine · Part 4)
- With: Ragnar Lodbrog
- “A battle was fought with Ragnar; but Karl did not succeed as happily in the field as he had got warning of the danger. And so that tireless conqueror of almost all Europe, who in his calm and complete career of victory had travelled over so great a portion of the world, now beheld his army, which had vanquished all these states and nations, turning its face from the field, and shattered by a handful from a single province.”

child: Pepin “Obeying this command, Karl intrusted his son Pepin with the conduct of the war against Gotrik; so that while he himself was working against a distant foe, Pepin might manage the conflict he had undertaken with his neighbour.”
enemies with Gotrik “When Gotrik heard of this, he attacked the nations bordering on the Elbe, and attempted to regain under his sway as of old the realm of Saxony, which eagerly accepted the yoke of Karl, and preferred the Roman to the Danish arms.”

enemies with Ragnar Lodbrog “A battle was fought with Ragnar; but Karl did not succeed as happily in the field as he had got warning of the danger.”

enemies with Ragnar Lodbrog (Their conflict is referred to through Karl's flight.) “Ragnar was equally as well pleased at the flight of the Finns as he had been at that of Karl”

Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.