Thirteenth-century manuscript illustration of Vita Karoli Magni15th-century stained-glass depiction of Charlemagne in Moulins Cathedral in central France
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 temperament of King Charles. It has long been seen as one of the key sources for the reign of Charlemagne and provides insight into the court of King Charles and the events that surrounded him.
^Ogg, p. 109
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Einhard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 134.
VitaKaroliMagni (Life of Charlemagne) is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, written by Einhard. The Life of Charlemagne...
against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni, which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution...
Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the VitaKaroliMagni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages"...
biography of Charlemagne, the Gesta KaroliMagni. His other works include a biography of Saint Gall known as the Vita Sancti Galli and a martyrology, among...
(Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as Karolus (as in VitaKaroliMagni), later also as Carolus. The name's etymology is a Common Germanic...
feast was in that month. It is also attested by Einhard in his work VitaKaroliMagni. St George's day is the twenty-third of the month; and St Mark's Eve...
against the king's life." We can find confirmation of this in Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni: "It is supposed that the cruelty of Queen Fastrada was the primary...
figureheads and the 'do nothing kings' that Einhard prefaced in the VitaKaroliMagni. Due to his vast military conquests, Charles often reallocated existing...
late 10th century, they were continued by the Lutici. In Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni, the Wilzi are said to refer to themselves as Welatabians. Wikisource...
of and inspiration for medieval writers after his death. Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni "can be said to have revived the defunct literary genre of the secular...
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland. The VitaKaroliMagni written after Charlemagne's death by his servant Einhard has served...
somewhere around the headwaters of the Ebro river. Equally Einhart's VitaKaroliMagni pinpoints the source of the Ebro in the land of the Navarrese. However...
after Yule-month, or be a name for January or February. From Ch. 29, VitaKaroliMagni Mensibus etiam iuxta propriam linguam vocabula imposuit, cum ante...
by Giuseppe Albertoni, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, p. 8. Einhard, VitaKaroliMagni, ch. 20 Joseph-Épiphane Darras, Histoire Générale de l'Église, Tome...
Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his VitaKaroliMagni a fatal event involving Vasconian raiders who laid an ambush by hiding...
Francorum as compiled under Einhard, and biographic works, like Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni; he composed his poem between 888 and 891, during the reign of Arnulf...
far the most numerous. These are often found paired with Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni, and it is partially from this that they are sometimes believed to...
of herbist-mānod, the Old High German name of November recorded in VitaKaroliMagni, ch. 29. Neata, Emil. "The Hunter's Moon". Night Sky Info. Archived...
Charlemagne on coins as well as with the description by Einhard in his VitaKaroliMagni, and the statuette is usually referred to as the "statuette of Charlemagne"...
for the building for his Palatine chapel, according to Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni (ch.26). In that case, he would have been buried in the sarcophagus...
the Sava river, and Pribina (d. 861) in the March of Pannonia. The VitaKaroliMagni ('Life of Charlemagne') by Einhard (d. 840) is a prominent example...
the Battle of Roncesvalles is impossible. According to Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni, written in the late eighth century, the antagonists are Basques who...
Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and Einhard's VitaKaroliMagni ("Life of Charlemagne"). He quotes from Gregory the Great's Regula...
for cruelty, although this is reported by chronicler Einhard in his VitaKaroliMagni, who had not arrived at Charlemagne's court while she was still alive...
12-wind system for posterity. The Frankish chronicler Einhard, in his VitaKaroliMagni (c. 830), claimed that Charlemagne himself adopted the classical 12-wind...
ultimately pardoned to monastic imprisonment by Charlemagne). In his VitaKaroliMagni Einhard counts the palace of Ingelheim, alongside that of Nijmegen...
Sonderegger 1980, p. 571. Wells 1987, p. 432. Hutterer 1999, pp. 336–341. VitaKaroliMagni, 29: "He also had the old rude songs that celebrate the deeds and...
Global Information
