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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.
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 .
An illustration of Einhard, to whom the revised text is often ascribed. The revised text is believed to have been edited after Charlemagne's death in 814 but prior to Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which references the revisions, written in 833 at the latest. [25] It covers the years 741 through 812, variously adding detail and modifying style. [26]
[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]
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 ]
— Einhard (translated by S. E. Turner, 1880) During the century of the rois fainéants , the Merovingian kings were increasingly dominated by their mayors of the palace , in the 6th century the office of the manager of the royal household, but in the 7th increasingly the power behind the throne who limited the role of the king to an ...
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]