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Ranking the Carolingians with Battle Royale: French Monarchs

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Charlemagne Was Not That Scandalous

He was the right man for the place in time so you know can't believe it for that. I think maybe the most scandalous thing and perhaps I might be wrong but he I think married at one point married a very very young girl, she was 13 or maybe even 12 or something. He didn't want to marry off his daughters because he'd seen what had happened with some of his daughters being married off to various dukes. And then in one of his last campaigns he reportedly had an elephant attack Vikings if that isn't interesting enough. So yeah we've been trying to keep it concise but Philip Augustus who's our next episode to come out will also be getting a two-part

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