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Einhard as scribe. Manuscript depiction from 1050. Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; Latin: E(g)inhardus; c. 775 – 14 March 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages".
Vita Karoli Magni (Life of Charlemagne) is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, written by Einhard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Life of Charlemagne is a 33 chapter account starting with the full genealogy of the Merovingian family, going through the rise of the Carolingian dynasty, and then detailing the exploits and ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation). Charlemagne A denarius of Charlemagne dated c. 812–814 with the inscription KAROLVS IMP AVG (Karolus Imperator Augustus) King of the Franks Reign 9 October 768 – 28 January 814 Coronation 9 ...
It contains poems on the transiencey of life, including an epigram of Ausonius and his De rosis nascentibus. [19] It also contains a copy of the ancient Notitia Galliarum. [20] The Grimalt Codex contains the oldest surviving copy of the 'official' or 'A' recension of the Vita Karoli Magni, a biography of Charlemagne. [8]
Janet Nelson says that "one of [Charlemagne's counsellors] surely wrote this poem," [4] and it may have been written by his own biographer, Einhard. [5] Francesco Stella has argued for the authorship of Modoin , whose debt to Virgil in his description of Aachen elsewhere equals that of the Paderborn poet. [ 6 ]
Sources for material on the reign of Charlemagne included the Historia Caroli Magni, also known as the "Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle", and the Vita Karoli Magni by Einhard. Other sources included Abbot Suger 's Life of Louis VI .
Einhard, translated by Samuel Epes Turner. The Life of Charlemagne. New York, 1880. McGrath, Freddie. The Longevity of the Saxon Wars. at Leeds University; König, Daniel G.. Charlemagne's Jihad Revisited. Debating the Islamic Contribution to an Epochal Change in the History of Christianization, in: Medieval Worlds 3 (2016), p. 3-40.
Gersuinda (also Gersvinda, Gervinda; died after 800) was a concubine of the emperor Charlemagne, with whom he was in a relationship after the death of his last legitimate wife, Luitgard (died June 4, 800). According to Charlemagne's contemporary biographer, Einhard, Gersuinda was a Saxon, a people whom Charlemagne subdued over a thirty year ...