Einhard
Frankish scholar and courtier (c. 775 - 840) · Germany · Writers · Lived 774 to 840 · aged 66
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Something wrong?A Frankish scholar who left the sharpest portrait we have of Charlemagne - written from the inside, by someone who served him.
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About this person
Einhard was born around 775 into a Frankish world that was being remade. He became a courtier and servant to Charlemagne, then stayed on under his son Louis the Pious. Somewhere in that span he sat down and wrote the Vita Karoli Magni, a biography of the emperor he'd known firsthand. The work survived as one of the early Middle Ages' most valuable literary inheritances - a rare window into the man who built an empire, rendered by someone who'd watched him do it.
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