KING CHARLEMAGNE

Because of our recent discovery that our ancestory leads back to the French Kings &
Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor, I was reading a little bit of history & came
across a couple of interesting stories about him. Charlemagne tried hard to learn how to
write but he left it very late. So it is extraordinary that the form of writing we still use today
owes its existence to him. Until about AD800, writing was all in capital letters with no punctuation and with the words all running together, which created a great deal of confusion. Under quidance from his teacher, Alcuin, Charlemagne set up writing schools in the monasteries. There, the monks developed Caroligian minuscule----capital and lower case letters, punctuation and separated words--the form of script you are reading at this moment. The monks had to practise their new skills on something, and it's thanks to the writing schools that 90 per cent of the Latin works we have now survived at all.
(Our ancestry leads back to him through the Whetten-Hatch line & the Hatch line is listed as the 49th largest LDS family)

Also: CHARLEMAGNE & The fasting Bishop
A truly great king, Charlemagne chastized by example rather than punishing outright.
A bishop staying at the palace once criticized him for eating early each day in Lent, which was not strictly allowed by the Church. Keeping calm, Charlemagne patiently told the bishop that he agreed with him and he was right, but then Charlemagne informed the bishop that he would henceforth be the last person to be served during his stay at the palace. At every meal the
bishop had to wait until the nobles, the commanders, the courtiers and the officials had all been served before he was finally given his food. After many hungry days, Charlemagne asked the bishop, "Do you now understand that I eat early not from greed, but in consideration for those who have to wait?