Charlemagne (disambiguation)

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Charlemagne (742/747–814) was King of the Franks from 768–814 and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 800–814.

Charlemagne may also refer to:

People

• Peter II, Count of Savoy (1203–1268), called "the Little Charlemagne"
• Charlemagne Péralte (1886–1919), Haitian nationalist leader
• Manno Charlemagne (born 1948), Haitian musician, politician
• Charlemagne Tower (1809–1889), American mining developer
• Charlemagne Palestine (born 1945), American artist
• Diane Charlemagne (born 1964), British vocalist
• Charlemagne Anyamah (born 1938), French athlete
• Jean Armand Charlemagne (1753–1838), French dramatic author
• Charlamagne Tha God (born 1980), American radio personality (Lenard McKelvey)

Arts and entertainment

• Charlemagne (film), a 1933 French comedy drama film directed by Pierre Colombier
• Charlemagne (band), a band from Wisconsin
• Charlemagne (songwriting team), a songwriting team with Motown
• "Kid Charlemagne", a 1976 song by the rock group Steely Dan
• Pèlerinage de Charlemagne, an Old French epic poem
• Charlemagne (comics), a comic book series
• Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, a 2010 symphonic metal concept album by Christopher Lee
• Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, a 2013 heavy metal concept album by Christopher Lee
• Charlemagne, le prince à cheval, a 1993 television miniseries
• The Charlemagne Pursuit, a 2008 novel
• The Coronation of Charlemagne, a painting

Places

• Charlemagne building, a Brussels high-rise of the European Commission
• Charlemagne, Quebec, an off-island suburb of Montreal, Canada
• Lycée Charlemagne, located in the Marais quarter of Paris, France
• Villiers-Charlemagne, a commune of France
• Cours Charlemagne, a street of Lyon
• Patinoire Charlemagne, an ice-rink of Lyon
• Rue Charlemagne, a street of Paris

Military

• French ship Charlemagne, ships called Charlemagne
  • French battleship Charlemagne, a battleship called Charlemagne
  • Charlemagne-class battleship, a class of French battleship
  • French ship Charlemagne (1852), a ship-of-the-line called Charlemagne
• USS Charlemagne, American brig of war
• Charlemagne Division, 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne
  • Charlemagne regiment

Honors

• Order of Charlemagne, a decoration of Andorra
• Charlemagne Prize, a prestigious award by the German city of Aachen

Other uses

• Charlemagne (wine), a wine called Charlemagne
• Corton-Charlemagne, a wine and vinyard of Burgundy

See also

• Carolingian (disambiguation)
• Charlamagne tha God