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See also:EINHARD (c. 770–840) , the friend and biographer of See also:Charlemagne; he is also called Einhartus, Ainhardus or Heinhardus, in some of the See also:early See also:manuscripts. About the loth See also:century the name was altered into Agenardus, and then to Eginhardus, or Eginhartus, but, although these See also:variations were largely used in the See also:English and See also:French See also:languages, the See also:form Einhardus, or Einhartus, is unquestionably the right one.
According to the statement of Walaf rid See also:Strabo, Einhard was See also:born in the See also:district which is watered by the See also:river See also:Main, and his See also:birth has been fixed at about 770. His parents were of See also:noble
EINHARD
birth, and were probably named Einhart and Engilfrit; and their son was educated in the monastery of See also:Fulda, where he was certainly residing in 788 and in 791. Owing to his intelligence and ability he was transferred, not later than 796, from Fulda to the See also:palace of Charlemagne by See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot Baugulf; and he soon became very intimate with the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king and his See also:family, and under-took various important duties, one writer calling him domesticus palatii regalis. He was a member of the See also:group of scholars who gathered around Charlemagne, and was entrusted with the See also:charge of the public buildings, receiving, according to a See also:fashion then prevalent, the scriptural name of Bezaleel (See also:Exodus xxxi. 2 and See also:xxxv. 30-35) owing to his See also:artistic skill. It has been supposed that he was responsible for the erection of the See also:basilica at See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, where he resided with the See also:emperor, and the other buildings mentioned in See also:chapter xvii. of his Vita Karoli Magni, but there is no See also:express statement to this effect. In 8o6 Charlemagne sent him to See also:Rome to obtain the See also:signature of See also:Pope See also:Leo III. to a will which he had made concerning the See also:division of his See also:empire; and it was possibly owing to Einhard's See also:influence that in 813, after the See also:death of his two See also:elder sons, the emperor made his remaining son, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, a partner with himself in the imperial dignity. When Louis became See also:sole emperor in 814 he retained his See also:father's See also:minister in his former position; then in 817 made him See also:tutor to his son, See also:Lothair, afterwards the emperor Lothair I.; and showed him many other marks of favour. Einhard married Emma, or Imma, a See also:sister of Bernharius, See also:bishop of See also:Worms, and a tradition of the 12th century represented this See also:lady as a daughter of Charlemagne, and invented a romantic See also:story with regard to the courtship which deserves to be noticed as it frequently appears in literature. Einhard is said to have visited the emperor's daughter regularly and secretly, and on one occasion a fall of See also:snow made it impossible for him to walk away without leaving footprints, which would See also:lead to his detection. This See also:risk, however, was obviated by the foresight of Emma, who carried her See also:lover across the courtyard of the palace; a See also:scene which was witnessed by Charlemagne, who next See also:morning narrated the occurrence to his counsellors, and asked for their See also:advice. Very severe punishments were suggested for the clandestine lover, but the emperor rewarded the devotion of the pair by consenting to their See also:marriage. This story is, of course, improbable, and is further discredited by the fact that Einhard does not mention Emma among the number of Charlemagne's See also:children. Moreover, a similar story has been told of a daughter of the emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. It is uncertain whether Einhard had any children. He addressed a See also:letter to a See also:person named Vussin, whom he calls fili and mi nate, but, as Vussin is not mentioned in documents in which his interests as Einhard's son would have been concerned, it is possible that he was only a See also:young See also:man in whom he took a See also:special See also:interest. In See also:January 815 the emperor Louis I. bestowed on Einhard and his wife the domains of Michelstadt and Mulinheim in the See also:Odenwald, and in the See also:charter conveying these lands he is called simply Einhardus, but, in a document dated the 2nd of See also:June of the same See also:year, he is referred to as abbot. After this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he is mentioned as See also:head of several monasteries: St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter, See also:Mount Blandin and St Bavon at See also:Ghent, St Servais at See also:Maastricht, St See also:Cloud near See also:Paris, and See also:Fontenelle near See also:Rouen, and he also had charge of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:John the Baptist at See also:Pavia.
During the quarrels which took See also:place between Louis I. and his sons, in consequence of the emperor's second marriage, Einhard's efforts were directed to making See also:peace, but after a time he See also:grew tired of the troubles and intrigues of See also:court See also:life. In 818 he had given his See also:estate at Michelstadt to the See also:abbey of Lorsch, but he retained Mulinheim, where about 827 he founded an abbey and erected a church, to which he transported some See also:relics of St Peter and St See also:Marcellinus, which he had procured from Rome. To Mulinheim, which was afterwards called Seligenstadt, he finally retired in 83o. His wife, who had been his See also:constant helper, and whom he had not put away on becoming an abbot, died in 836, and after receiving a visit from the emperor, Einhard died on the 14th of See also:March 84o. He was buried at Seligenstadt, and his See also:epitaph was written by Hrabanus Maurus. Einhard
was a man of very See also:short stature, a feature on which See also:Alcuin wrote an See also:epigram. Consequently he was called Nardulus, a diminutive form of Einhardus, and his See also:great See also:industry and activity caused him to be likened to an See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant. He was also a man of learning and culture. See also:Reaping the benefits of the revival of learning brought about by Charlemagne, he was on intimate terms with Alcuin, was well versed in Latin literature, and knew some See also:Greek. His most famous See also:work is his Vita Karoli Magni, to which a See also:prologue was added by Walafrid Strabo. Written in See also:imitation of the De vitis Caesarum of Suetonius, this is the best contemporary See also:account of the life of Charlemagne, and could only have been written by one who was very intimate with the emperor and his court. It is, moreover, a work of some artistic merit, although not See also:free from inaccuracies. It was written before 821, and having been very popular during the See also:middle ages, was first printed at See also:Cologne in 1521. G.
H. See also:Pertz collated more than sixty manuscripts for his edition of 1829, and others have since come to See also:light. Other See also:works by Einhard are: Epistolae, which are of considerable importance for the See also:history of the times; Historia See also:translations beatorum Christi martyrum Marcellini et Petri, which gives a curious account of how the bones of these martyrs were stolen and conveyed to Seligenstadt, and what miracles they wrought; and De adoranda truce, a See also:treatise which has only recently come to light, and which has been published by E. See also:Dummler in the Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft See also:fur dltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, See also:Band xi. (See also:Hanover, 1886). It has been asserted that Einhard was the author of some of the Frankish See also:annals, and especially of See also:part of the annals of Lorsch (Annales Laurissenses majores), and part of the annals of Fulda (Annales Fuldenses). Much discussion has taken place on this question, and several of the most eminent of See also:German historians, See also:Ranke among them, have taken part therein, but no certain decision has been reached.
The literature on Einhard is very extensive, as nearly all those who See also:deal with Charlemagne, early German and early French literature, treat of him. See also:Editions of his works are by A. Teulet, Einhardi amnia quae extant See also:opera (Paris, 1840-1843), with a French See also:translation; P. Jaffe, in the Bibliotheca rerum Germanicarum, Band iv. (See also:Berlin, 1867); G. H. Pertz in the Monumenta Germaniae historica, Bande i. and ii. (Hanover, 1826-1829), and J. P. See also:Migne in the Patrologia See also:Latina, tones 97 and 104 (Paris, 1866). The Vita Karoli Magni, edited by G. H. Pertz and G. See also:Waitz, has been published separately (Hanover, 1880). Among the various translations of the Vita may be mentioned an English one by W. Glaister (See also:London, 1877) and a German one by 0. See also:Abel (See also:Leipzig, 1893). For a See also:complete bibliography of Einhard, see A. See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca historica, pp. 394-397 (Berlin, 1896), and W. See also:Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band i. (Berlin, 1904). A. W.
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