3-081-314 - LTL/Heritage Images

Charlemagne holding the globus cruciger in one hand and the sword in the other, 1878. Motto shown around the sword: In scelus exurgo, sceleris discrimina purgo. Charlemagne (742-814), King of the Franks (768-814), king of the Lombards (774-814), and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (800-814). From a miniature in "Registres de l'Université de Paris". From "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance" by Paul Lacroix, Paris, 1878.