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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".
Thirteenth-century manuscript illustration of Vita Karoli Magni 15th-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.
[37] that Einhard refers to with regard to Charlemagne, was a Germanic language. [40] [41] Due to the prevalence in Francia of "rustic Roman", he was probably functionally bilingual in Germanic and Romance dialects at an early age. [37] Charlemagne also spoke Latin and, according to Einhard, could understand and (perhaps) speak some Greek. [42]
Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, said on the closing of the conflict: The war that had lasted so many years was at length ended by their acceding to the terms offered by the King; which were renunciation of their national religious customs and the worship of devils, acceptance of the sacraments of the Christian faith and religion, and union ...
The only historical mention of the actual Roland is in the Vita Karoli Magni by Charlemagne's courtier and biographer Einhard.Einhard refers to him as Hruodlandus Brittannici limitis praefectus ("Roland, prefect of the borders of Brittany"), indicating that he presided over the Breton March, Francia's border territory against the Bretons. [1]
Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne [2] (c. 817 –833), he is considered among the most important intellectual architects of the Carolingian Renaissance. Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.
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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 in Seligenstadt , Hesse , Germany , a town founded by Einhard , famous as a biographer of Charlemagne .