Einhard information

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...

after his death. Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni "can be said to have revived the defunct literary genre of the secular biography." Einhard drew on classical...

biography from this period is the life of Charlemagne by his courtier Einhard. In Medieval Western India, there was a Sanskrit Jain literary genre of...

Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed...

Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, written by Einhard. The Life of Charlemagne is a 33 chapter account starting with the full...

dismiss Charles' first union as illegitimate. The contemporary historian Einhard writes merely that Pepin was born to a "concubine", and he does not list...

conquest into a symbolic permanence as well as exclaiming royal authority. Einhard suggested the construction of so-called 'public buildings' was a testament...

crowned Charlemagne as emperor. According to Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard, Charlemagne had no suspicion of what was about to happen, and if informed...

of St. Medard, and Einhard's transport of the relics of SS. Marcellinus and Peter into Francia. A more detailed account of Einhard's procurement of the...

formed, Duchy of Croatia, ruled by Borna, as attested by chronicles of Einhard starting in 818. The record represents the first document of Croatian realms...

have been either the son of Chilperic II or Theuderic IV. According to Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, Childeric took little part in public business...

a goddess Eostre whose feast was in that month. It is also attested by Einhard in his work Vita Karoli Magni. St George's day is the twenty-third of the...

(died June 4, 800). According to Charlemagne's contemporary biographer, Einhard, Gersuinda was a Saxon, a people whom Charlemagne subdued over a thirty...

building work began on the Einhard-Basilika, the current version of which is now the landmark of Seligenstadt. Einhard died in 840 and he and his partner...

115. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 809 [10], p. 116-7. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 809 [11], p. 118. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 810 [12], p. 119. Einhard, Life...

the March of Pannonia. The Vita Karoli Magni ('Life of Charlemagne') by Einhard (d. 840) is a prominent example of original historical works. Hugh Capet...

have tea upon waking up. For dinner, they usually have a smaller meal. Einhard's Life of Charlemagne describes the emperor's summertime siestas: "In summer...

on his campaign into the Iberian peninsula across the Western Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his Vita Karoli Magni a fatal...

Bavo's Abbey. Around 800, Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, appointed Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, abbot of both abbeys. The city grew from...

height, which was especially rare in the Middle Ages, was reported by Einhard, "for it is known that in height he measured seven of his feet" (nam septem...

17–18, 20–23, 25, 30–31, 33, 35, 38–39, 42, 45. Einhard (2008). Two Lives of Charlemagne: Einhard and Notker the Stammerer. Translated by Ganz, David...

relationship to Charlemagne is a matter of dispute. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard calls her a "concubine" and Paulus Diaconus speaks of Pippin's birth "before...

Roman architect Vitruvius describes 24 winds. According to the chronicler Einhard (c. 830), the Frankish king Charlemagne himself came up with his own names...

constant occurrence, so the Franks declared open war against them." – Einhard on the origins of the Saxon Wars in Vita Karoli Magni (c. 820) According...