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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) was the son of Pepin III, King of the Franks

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Warwickshire and the Eighth Century missions to Germany

Early in the eighth Century a remarkable group of men and women from the Anglo-Saxon West Midlands set out to start new lives on the continent. Their ancestors had arrived two hundred years earlier as pagan settlers from Saxony and Denmark. But their conversion to Christianity inspired a "return migration" as people set out as missionaries to the still-pagan Old Saxons or to live ascetic, religious lives abroad.

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1 Bernadette Segal from Coventry - 2 November 2003
"I thought this was an interesting article, but really isn't there something more relevant to today's society, and the make up of it than a bunch of rich folk who went to Germany to try and turn them into Christians, over 1000 years ago???"




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