He also murdered lots of people who wouldn't convert.
If you ask me, he deserves a statue more than fucking jesus.
http://www.visualstatistics.net/045%20lo...mation.htm
If you ask me, he deserves a statue more than fucking jesus.
http://www.visualstatistics.net/045%20lo...mation.htm
Quote:The violence and atrocities of Charlemagne's Thirty Years' War include the executions of thousands who refused to convert to Christianity and resulted in deaths of about a half and in some regions close to two thirds of the pre-war population. During Charlemagne's Thirty Years' War, people who refused to be converted were executed. These executions took place in recurring waves, reaching its peak in 782 when Charlemagne executed in a single day over 4,000 Saxons who refused to convert to Christianity. During his campaigns against Saxony, in his conversations transcribed by his biographer Eginhard, Charlemagne often repeated that
'Saxony must be Christianized, or wiped out.'
During Charlemagne's Thirty Year's War, most of the Western Europe was converted to Christianity.