Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart) (c. 775 - March 14, 840 in Seligenstadt, Germany) was a monk, Frankish historian and a dedicated servant of Charlemagne. He wrote a number works, the most famous of which was produced at the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious. Einhard wrote a biography of Charlemagne, the "Vita Karoli Magni" or "Life of Charlemagne" (c. 817-830), … Wikipedia
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"“[Charlemagne] died January twenty-eighth, the seventh day from the time that he took to his bed, at nine o'clock in the morning, after partaking of the Holy Communion, in the seventy-second year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign” "
