charlemagne, King Henry VIII and Erik the red?

Question

what was their occupation?
how did they die?
Religion?
Greatest achievments?
where they lived most of their life?

Answer 1

Charlemagne was a co-king with his brother of the Franks, then King of the Franks, then King of the Lombards, then Holy Roman Emperor.

He died from natural causes.

He was Catholic.

His greatest acheivement was uniting much of Europe under one Christian empire.

He lived most of his life in France and Germany. His castle, Aachen, was in Germany.

King Henry VIII was King of England, Ireland, Wales (and various other places that he traditionally claimed)

He died from a fesetering ulcer in his leg.

He was Catholic up until he denounced the Church and created the Church of England, with himself as its head.

His greatest acheivement was probably uniting his people and building its international power. His father pulled the country out of the fractious War of Roses, and had Henry VIII not been such an intelligent and powerful ruler, things could have devolved into chaos again. He knew how to grow the power of the monarchy and control his nobles, and did so with more finesse than probably any other British monarch since Edward I.

He lived his life in England in his various palaces.

Erik the Red was a Viking outlaw and explorer.

He died, most likely, from age and complications after a fall off of a horse.

His was a pagan, but his son and his son's family were Christian.

His greatest acheivement would be his traveling further west than most had ever gone. It was his journey to a "land out west" that inspired his son to try to duplicate that journey and discover Vineland.

He lived most of his life in Iceland and Greenland. He was originally from Norway, but he was banished for some murders. Erik apparently had a nasty temper and had a habit of killing people in arguments. It even got him in trouble in Iceland. No wonder everyone was happy to have him get on a boat and disappear to the west!!!

Answer 2

Charlemagne (Karl the Great):
1.) King of the Franks, later Holy Roman Emperor
2.) Old age/illness
3.) Catholic
4.) among other things, Set up the Modern English currency system, conquered Italy, waged crusades. Considered father of France and of Germany
5.) I'm actually not sure where he lived most of his life, but he died at Aachen, which in in Germany.

King Henry VIII (Henry Tudor):
1.) King of England
2.) Old age
3.) supposedly Catholic or Christain, but he didn't act it
4.) Married 6 women and had most of them executed (I think 5), was an overall ******* and is the main reason we have so little Anglo-Saxon literature (when he disbanded the monasteries he disposed of the libraries by burning the books and selling them for scrap paper)
5.) England

Erik the Red ("Eirikur Rauthi", Erik Thorvaldson):
1.) Viking (yes, that's an occupation, if you don't believe me look it up), murderer, ruler of Greenland and overall badass
2.) I actually have no idea, sorry
3.) I'm not sure what it would be called exactly but he believed the Norse paganism that all the other Vikings from that time did. (a lot of people would call this "Asatru" but Asatru is just a modern reconstruction of Norse beliefs)
4.) Father of Leif Erikson (who discovered North America), managed to get himself exiled from Norway and then from Iceland, so he founded a settlement in Greenland
5.) Norway, Iceland and Greenland. Probably Greenland most.

Answer 3

Erik the Red, or Eirik Raude, was a Viking explorer. Credited with discovering Greenland, Erik died sometime during the winter of 1003-1004. He gave lip service to Christianity, but was a follower of Odin and Thor.

Charlamange was King of the Franks who became the Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD.....he died in January of 814, of an illness. He was Christian.he was the first ruler of a Western Europe empire since the fall of the Roman Empire.

King Henry VIII was King of England. Henry VIII is famous for having been married six times, and ultimately breaking with the Roman Catholic Church. He wielded perhaps the most unfettered power of any English monarch, and brought about the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the union of England and Wales. He died in 1547 of disease. Historians say it was syphilis.

Answer 4

Henry VIII.
Henry was a king more famous for his six wives than for his turbulent yet effective rule, which took England from obscurity to being a major world power.

Henry became heir to the throne, aged eleven, in 1492, when his elder brother Arthur, Prince of Wales, died suddenly. Arthur had been married to Catherine of Aragon, but the marriage had only lasted a short while and apparently never consummated. Henry’s father needed the alliance with Catherine’s father, the king of Spain and so Catherine was kept at the English court to be married to Henry, when he came of age. When Henry came to the throne, aged 18, he immediately married Catherine.

Henry’s reign was noted for stability and prosperity at home, due to a foreign policy based on avoiding foreign conflict. Henry and his ministers played off the two major powers in Europe, France and Spain, by making brief alliances with one or the other, or another power, as best suited the moment.

At Henry’s court, there were numerous factions, each trying to gain influence. Although England was Catholic and Henry himself was a devout Catholic, many at court had sympathies with the Protestant cause. Henry had no male heir but only a daughter, Mary, later Mary I, with Catherine. He was persuaded to seek an annulment of his marriage on the grounds that it was unlawful to marry one’s brother’s wife. The pope refused Henry’s request, preferring to side with Spain and Catherine’s relatives, for political reasons. At this, Henry was convinced to make a break with Rome. The Act of Supremacy made the king the head of the church in England. England was still Catholic but the king ran church affairs. The Act of Appeals declared that England was ‘an empire’, that is a sovereign state. Henry had made England into a nation state, independent of all foreign powers. The way was now clear for Henry to divorce Catherine.

Henry then married Anne Boleyn, by whom he had a daughter Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I. When that marriage failed, he married Jane Seymour and had his male heir, Edward, later Edward VI. Henry went through a succession of marriages, none of them successful. He left a male heir who took the throne aged nine and two daughters who became queens in turn. During Edward’s reign, his ministers made England Protestant. In Mary’s time, England reverted to Catholicism and when Elizabeth succeeded, England turned back to Protestantism. Henry thought he had left the succession clear and the land safe but, in fact, his marriages had brought turmoil.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_red