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    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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    after his death. Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni "can be said to have revived the defunct literary genre of the secular biography." Einhard drew on classical...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    conquest into a symbolic permanence as well as exclaiming royal authority. Einhard suggested the construction of so-called 'public buildings' was a testament...
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    building work began on the Einhard-Basilika, the current version of which is now the landmark of Seligenstadt. Einhard died in 840 and he and his partner...
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  • she was his fourth wife. Other historians list Himiltrude, described by Einhard as a concubine, as Charlemagne's first wife, and reorder his subsequent...
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    of St. Medard, and Einhard's transport of the relics of SS. Marcellinus and Peter into Francia. A more detailed account of Einhard's procurement of the...
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    (died June 4, 800). According to Charlemagne's contemporary biographer, Einhard, Gersuinda was a Saxon, a people whom Charlemagne subdued over a thirty...
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  • a goddess Eostre whose feast was in that month. It is also attested by Einhard in his work Vita Karoli Magni. St George's day is the twenty-third of the...
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    crowned Charlemagne as emperor. According to Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard, Charlemagne had no suspicion of what was about to happen, and if informed...
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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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    height, which was especially rare in the Middle Ages, was reported by Einhard, "for it is known that in height he measured seven of his feet" (nam septem...
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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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    scholarship. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 813, p. 125-6 Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 813, p. 126 Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 814, p. 129 Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno...
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    have tea upon waking up. For dinner, they usually have a smaller meal. Einhard's Life of Charlemagne describes the emperor's summertime siestas: "In summer...
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    succeeded Yahya the Barmakid as Harun's chief minister.[citation needed] Both Einhard and Notker the Stammerer refer to envoys traveling between the courts of...
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    142 Payne, Blanche. History of Costume. Harper & Row, 1965. pp. 142, 154 Einhard. The Life of Charlemagne. University of Michigan Press, 1960. Lever, James...
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    17–18, 20–23, 25, 30–31, 33, 35, 38–39, 42, 45. Einhard (2008). Two Lives of Charlemagne: Einhard and Notker the Stammerer. Translated by Ganz, David...
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  • Saint-Gobain until 1984, when he became head of the Catholic publishing company Einhard Verlag. He was president of the Aachen Chamber of Industry and Commerce...
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    the March of Pannonia. The Vita Karoli Magni ('Life of Charlemagne') by Einhard (d. 840) is a prominent example of original historical works. Hugh Capet...
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  • relationship to Charlemagne is a matter of dispute. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard calls her a "concubine" and Paulus Diaconus speaks of Pippin's birth "before...
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    115. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 809 [10], p. 116-7. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 809 [11], p. 118. Einhards Jahrbücher, Anno 810 [12], p. 119. Einhard, Life...
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  • their revised version. However, it is mentioned briefly in chapter 18 of Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, which records that "at the urging of his mother,...
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    Frankish kingdom. The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime...
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    Bavo's Abbey. Around 800, Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, appointed Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, abbot of both abbeys. The city grew from...
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