Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of charles the " in BNC.

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1 Eriugena himself was never part of the Carolingian ecclesiastical establishment and worked directly under the private patronage of Charles the Bald .
2 The territories described above were all to feel the military might of the Franks under the remarkable leadership of Charles the Great .
3 Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success .
4 Montesquieu did not omit the deficiencies of Charles 's father Louis the Pious , nor the contributory factors of French fickleness and Viking destruction : but he put the chief blame on the " weak spirit of Charles the Bald " and , in particular , on the heritability of fiefs which Charles had permitted .
5 For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite .
6 The recent treatment of Charles the Bald alone , or in a " French " context , by several British historians has tended to obscure this broader geographic dimension of Carolingian familial politics .
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