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...
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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...
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Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, according to Johannes Fired, "can be said to have revived the defunct literary genre of the secular biography." Einhard drew...
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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...
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Vita Karoli Magni (section Einhard and Charlemagne)
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...
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The Einhard Prize (German: Einhard-Preis) is a literary prize for historical biography. It is awarded by the Einhard-Stiftung, a foundation headquartered...
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dismiss Charles' first union as illegitimate. The contemporary historian Einhard writes merely that Pepin was born to a "concubine", and he does not list...
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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...
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on his campaign into the Iberian peninsula across the Western Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his Vita Karoli Magni a fatal...
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have been either the son of Chilperic II or Theuderic IV. According to Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, Childeric took little part in public business...
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