Royal Frankish Annals
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The Royal Frankish Annals, also called the Annales Laurissenses maiores, are a series of annals composed in Latin in Carolingian Francia, recording year-by-year the state of the monarchy from 741 to 8
Annales regni Francorum, entry for AD 814
The coronation in 752 of Pépin the Short by Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz.
Louis the Pious giving penance at Attigny in 822.
"The destruction of Irminsul by Charlemagne" (1882) by Heinrich Leutemann.
Einhard
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Einhard 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
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…relics of saints play an important role as well, with mention of Hilduin's translation of the relics of St. Sebastian to the Abbey 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 relics exists in his…
Einhard as scribe. Manuscript depiction from 1050
Einhard memorial in the German city of Eschweiler