523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

2937.246 - 2970.466 Tom Holland

There doesn't seem to be in the sources any suspicion of that. And I think most historians accept that it wasn't a nosebleed. I mean, he seems to have died of natural causes. And that means, of course, that Charles is now really the only kid on the block. And he gets unanimously elected as king of all the lands of the Franks. His father and his grandfather, he alone holds the reins in his hands.