Charlemagne The legendary king Charles the Great 1250 Years ago Charlemagne ruled an Empire The Trilogy now in one book: Waldo / Godsbert / Carolus Charles the Great or Charlemagne, as he was better known, was obsessed with how history would judge and portray him. One of his greatest desires was to be counted among the just. He asked his childhood friend and by now Imperial Abbot Waldo, to find the scribe who could best set his atrocities, committed against the medieval pagans, in a good light. But did he succeed?