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Einhard ( also Eginhard or Einhart ; c. 775 – March 14, 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.
Einhard was from the eastern German-speaking part of the Frank Kingdom.
Despite the fact that Einhard was on intimate terms with Charlemagne, he never achieved office in his reign.
Einhard was married to Emma, of whom ( as of most laywomen of the period ) little is known.
Though he was undoubtedly devoted to her, Einhard wrote nothing of his wife until after her death on 13 December 835, when he wrote to a friend that he was reminded of her loss in ‘ every day, in every action, in every undertaking, in all the administration of the house and household, in everything needing to be decided upon and sorted out in my religious and earthly responsibilities ’.
Einhard and his wife were originally buried in one sarcophagus in the choir of the church in Seligenstadt, but in 1810 the sarcophagus was presented by the Grand Duke of Hesse to the count of Erbach, who claims descent from Einhard as the husband of Imma, the reputed daughter of Charlemagne.
830 and was not rediscovered until 1885, when Ernst Dümmler identified a text in a manuscript in Vienna as the missing Libellus de adoranda cruce, which Einhard had dedicated to his pupil Lupus Servatus.
Hedeby is first mentioned in the Frankish chronicles of Einhard ( 804 ) who was in the service of Charlemagne,
Louis was born while his father Charlemagne was on campaign in Spain, at the Carolingian villa of Cassinogilum, according to Einhard and the anonymous chronicler called Astronomus ; the place is usually identified with Chasseneuil, near Poitiers.
The total sum paid out is unknown, but it was without doubt raised through taxes, as Einhard in his Vita explicitly says: " And the victorious Danes imposed a tribute on the vanquished, by means of taxes one hundred pounds of silver from the Frisians is already released " ( Danosque victores tributum victis inposuisse, et vectigalis nomine centum libras argenti a Frisionibus iam esse solutas ).
Based on Merovingian ad hoc arrangements, using the form missus regis ( the " king's envoy ") and sending a layman and an ecclesiastic in pairs, the use of missi dominici was fully exploited by Charlemagne ( ruling 768 — 814 ), who made them a regular part of his administration, " a highly intelligent and plausible innovation in Carolingian government ", Norman F. Cantor observes, " and a tribute to the administrative skill of the ecclesiastics, such as Alcuin and Einhard ".
Bertrada lived at the court of her elder son Charles, and according to Einhard their relationship was excellent.
Einhard claims this was the only episode that ever strained relations between mother and son.
In particular, a revision of the annals was attributed to Frankish historian Einhard ( c. 775 – 840 ) ( therefore Annales qui dicuntur Einhardi ), though a really convincing argument for his authorship is wanting.
Einhard was also the one who built the Einhardsbasilika.
Charlemagne took a serious interest in scholarship, promoting the liberal arts at the court, ordering that his children and grandchildren be well-educated, and even studying himself under the tutelage of Paul the Deacon, from whom he learned grammar, Alcuin, with whom he studied rhetoric, dialect and astronomy ( he was particularly interested in the movements of the stars ), and Einhard, who assisted him in his studies of arithmetic.

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The work thus contains an understandable degree of bias, Einhard taking care to exculpate Charlemagne in some matters, not mention others, and to gloss over certain issues which would be of embarrassment to Charlemagne, such as the morality of his daughters ; by contrast, other issues are curiously not glossed over, like his concubines.
Around 800 Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, appointed Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, as abbot of both abbeys.
The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention " Wisabada " sometime between 828 and 830.
At the time of his death, he and his brother Charlemagne were close to outright war, which Charlemagne's biographer Einhard attributes to the miscounsel of Carloman's advisors.
Charlemagne had a keen interest in learning, according to his biographer Einhard:
Charlemagne's biographer Einhard calls her a " concubine " and Paulus Diaconus speaks of Pippin's birth " before legal marriage ", whereas a letter by Pope Stephen III refers to Charlemagne and his brother Carloman as being already married ( to Himiltrude and Gerberga ), and advises them not to dismiss their wives.
This 77 km-long hiking and cycling trail follows Charlemagne ’ s biographer Einhard ’ s footsteps, running from Bad König to Hanau.
* 828 First mentioned by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne.
Many of the Slavic tribes became dependencies of the Carolingian Empire and the Franks created the Sorbian March to defend against the Sorbs. Einhard in Vita Karoli Magni describe expedition into Slavic territory led by Charlemagne himself, in 798.
In recognition of his great merit as confidant at Charlemagne ’ s court, Einhard acquired the main town and all land within two leagues ( roughly 15 km ) from Charlemagne ’ s son, Louis the Pious, as a freehold.
These texts were not just copied but also known at the court of Charlemagne, since his historian, the bishop Einhard, asked for explanations of some technical terms at the visiting English churchman Alcuin.
Einhard made these claims in " Vita Karoli Magni " ( Life of Charles the Great ), a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks.

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Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.

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After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

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Adam based his works in part on Einhard, Cassiodorus, and other earlier historians, as he had the whole library of the church of Bremen at his fingertips.
Eventually two dukedoms were formed — Duchy of Pannonia and Duchy of Dalmatia, ruled by Ljudevit Posavski and Borna, as attested by chronicles of Einhard starting in the year 818.
In 814, on Charlemagne's death his son Louis the Pious made Einhard his private secretary.
Einhard retired from court during the time of the disputes between Louis and his sons in the spring of 830.
Their marriage also appears to have been exceptionally liberal for the period, with Emma being as active as Einhard, if not more so, in the handling of their property.
It is said that in the later years of their marriage Emma and Einhard abstained from sexual relations, choosing instead to focus their attentions on their many religious commitments.
Einhard made numerous references to himself as a " sinner ", a description of himself that shows his Augustinian influenced world view.
Although unsure as to why these saints should choose such a " sinner " as their patron, Einhard nonetheless set about ensuring they continued to receive a resting place fitting of their honour.
Local lore from Seligenstadt portrays Einhard as the lover of Emma, one of Charlemagne's daughters, and has the couple elope from court.

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Someone evidently was on duty there.
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
Gorton evidently still had plenty to learn about Massachusetts, but he was learning fast.
Peters insisted that this impression was a great misunderstanding, and evidently, from the quarrel, obtained an unfavorable impression of Morgan's judgment.
Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.
The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.
The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.
Angilbert's non-sacramental relationship with Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne, was evidently recognized by the court – if she had not been the daughter of the King, historians might refer to her as his concubine.
It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.
It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught ( possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante ) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the ' costruzione legittima ' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.
According to Eusebius, the Jerusalem church was scattered twice, in AD70 and AD135, with the difference that from 70-130 the bishops of Jerusalem have evidently Jewish names, whereas after 135 the bishops of Aelia Capitolina appear to be Greeks.
He was evidently a man of unusual magnetic force.
This motion was evidently not due to parallax, for the reasons given in the discussion of Figure 2, and neither was it due to observational errors.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
The Persian infantry was evidently lightly armoured, and no match for hoplites in a head-on confrontation ( as would be demonstrated at the later battles of Thermopylae and Plataea.
All this was evidently much to the surprise of the Persians ; "... in their minds they charged the Athenians with madness which must be fatal, seeing that they were few and yet were pressing forwards at a run, having neither cavalry nor archers ".
Either way, the Athenians evidently realised that their city was still under threat, and marched as quickly as possible back to Athens.
The word " Chicano " in the US was evidently not affected by this change.

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