Charlemagne receives the Ambassadors from the Emperor of the East Size:Large: 7 x 5in Townsend and Bankes

Townsend and Bankes

pictured here at Goodison park in April 1933

The king is seated on a throne with the archbishops and bishops doing homage and figures looking on from the sides

'Houses by a Canal with a Washing Line'

Church of St Mary the Less

Charlemagne receives the Ambassadors from the Emperor of the East Size:Large: 7 x 5in Townsend and Bankes'Charlemagne receives the Ambassadors from the Emperor of the East', 1789. Charlemagne (c742 814), King of the Franks from 768 was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD by Leo III. Charlemagne's kingdom included almost all of western and central Europe. Here he is seen receiving ambassadors from the Byzantine Emperor.