Vita Karoli Magni (Life of Charlemagne) is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, written by Einhard. The Life of Charlemagne...

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"...

against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution...

(Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as Karolus (as in Vita Karoli Magni), later also as Carolus. The name's etymology is a Common Germanic...

Carolingian Annales regni Francorum, and he is mentioned in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni. However, no references to the gift or to interactions with Charlemagne...

and inspiration for, medieval writers after his death. Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, according to Johannes Fired, "can be said to have revived the defunct...

biography of Charlemagne, the Gesta Karoli Magni. His other works include a biography of Saint Gall known as the Vita Sancti Galli and a martyrology, among...

figureheads and the 'do nothing kings' that Einhard prefaced in the Vita Karoli Magni. Due to his vast military conquests, Charles often reallocated existing...

against the king's life." We can find confirmation of this in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni: "It is supposed that the cruelty of Queen Fastrada was the primary...

Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his Vita Karoli Magni a fatal event involving Vasconian raiders who laid an ambush by hiding...

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 month; and St Mark's Eve...

late 10th century, they were continued by the Lutici. In Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, the Wilzi are said to refer to themselves as Welatabians. Wikisource...

of herbist-mānod, the Old High German name of November recorded in Vita Karoli Magni, ch. 29. Neata, Emil. "The Hunter's Moon". Night Sky Info. Archived...

Roncesvalles is not supported by history. According to Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni from the late eighth century, the attackers were Basques seeking revenge...

Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland. The Vita Karoli Magni written after Charlemagne's death by his servant Einhard has served...

somewhere around the headwaters of the Ebro river. Equally Einhart's Vita Karoli Magni pinpoints the source of the Ebro in the land of the Navarrese. However...

far the most numerous. These are often found paired with Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, and it is partially from this that they are sometimes believed to...

appellation goes back to Einhard, who is most notably the author of Vita Karoli Magni, the biographer of Charlemagne; he described the later Merovingian...

after Yule-month, or be a name for January or February. From Ch. 29, Vita Karoli Magni  Mensibus etiam iuxta propriam linguam vocabula imposuit, cum ante...

by Giuseppe Albertoni, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, p. 8. Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni, ch. 20 Joseph-Épiphane Darras, Histoire Générale de l'Église, Tome...

Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne"). He quotes from Gregory the Great's Regula...

Paeshuys ('Easter-house'). Frankish historian Einhard also writes in his Vita Karoli Magni (early 9th century CE) that after Charlemagne defeated and converted...

created the Sorbian March to defend against the Sorbs. Einhard in Vita Karoli Magni describes an expedition into Slavic territory led by Charlemagne himself...

Charlemagne on coins as well as with the description by Einhard in his Vita Karoli Magni, and the statuette is usually referred to as the "statuette of Charlemagne"...

Francorum as compiled under Einhard, and biographic works, like Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni; he composed his poem between 888 and 891, during the reign of Arnulf...

dedicated to Louis the Pious, when king of Aquitania. Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni (c. 814) which promotes Charlemagne's reign as something for other...

ultimately pardoned to monastic imprisonment by Charlemagne). In his Vita Karoli Magni Einhard counts the palace of Ingelheim, alongside that of Nijmegen...

for cruelty, although this is reported by chronicler Einhard in his Vita Karoli Magni, who had not arrived at Charlemagne's court while she was still alive...

Sonderegger 1980, p. 571. Wells 1987, p. 432. Hutterer 1999, pp. 336–341. Vita Karoli Magni, 29: "He also had the old rude songs that celebrate the deeds and...

for the building for his Palatine chapel, according to Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni (ch.26). In that case, he would have been buried in the sarcophagus...