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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 .
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HY-drik, German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡ(ɘ)n̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a German high-ranking SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.
Einhard also built the Einhardsbasilika. In 819, he bequeathed his Odenwald holdings to Lorsch Abbey and in so doing precisely defined the boundaries of the Mark Michelstadt. Upon Einhard's death on 14 March 840, the monastery came into its inheritance. In the 17th century, the first houses outside the town wall were built.
[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]
In 829, Einhard built a church in honor of Marcellinus and Peter, and became its first abbot. Sigebert, Aimoin, and Rabanus Maurus all mention this translation. A slightly different account states that Einhard had built a basilica at Michelstadt in 827 and then sent a servant, Ratleic, to Rome with an end to find relics for the new building.
— 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 ...