I always thought Europe was a girl from ancient Creta , who is this Charlemagne?
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He is a defender of Europe and a father of Western Europe, but he isn’t a Father of Eastern Europe. They have different fathers.
If you have any European ancestry then it’s a mathematical certainty that you’re a direct descendant of Charlemagne.
The same is true for anyone alive in Europe at that time that still has living descendants.
Edit: I notice I’m getting a lot of downvotes, well I can tell you that mathematics isn’t democratic so you can’t change this fact by voting that it isn’t true. It will remain a fact even if no-one believes it.
I honestly don’t see how Charlemagne deserves that title – Europe was much more unified under the Roman Empire (which ruled larger swaths of Europe for longer and under a much more centralised system of governance), what exactly sets Charlemagne apart, except for one sycophantic poet calling him the ‘father of Europe’?
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I always thought Europe was a girl from ancient Creta , who is this Charlemagne?
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He is a defender of Europe and a father of Western Europe, but he isn’t a Father of Eastern Europe. They have different fathers.
If you have any European ancestry then it’s a mathematical certainty that you’re a direct descendant of Charlemagne.
The same is true for anyone alive in Europe at that time that still has living descendants.
Edit: I notice I’m getting a lot of downvotes, well I can tell you that mathematics isn’t democratic so you can’t change this fact by voting that it isn’t true. It will remain a fact even if no-one believes it.
Edit 2: [here is an article that explains it](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford)
Carolus Magnus
I honestly don’t see how Charlemagne deserves that title – Europe was much more unified under the Roman Empire (which ruled larger swaths of Europe for longer and under a much more centralised system of governance), what exactly sets Charlemagne apart, except for one sycophantic poet calling him the ‘father of Europe’?
saxons wont like that
He was a murderous illiterate charlatan.