What makes a king? What significances one must have in order to achieve such status? Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great was a simple yet a brilliant man when it came to reigning. Charlemagne ruled over Western and Central Europe and became the most influential king of the medieval times. In Einhards Life of Charlemagne, a very brief description of Charles ideas, his beliefs, attitudes and personalities are illustrated as well as his illness. Charlemagne was a man with a great vison of an ideal society, all united under Christianity in its glorious form in a heaven like kingdom. Einhards literature gives the society an understanding of Charlemagne and what made him capable of being Augustus. His great goal was to unite Latin Europe
