Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard and the Monk of St Gall edited by Prof. A. J. Grant

by Einhard; Balbulus Notker

INDEX

[pg 177]

Aaron, King of Persia, [pg 28]_. See also Haroun.

Abodriti, [pg 23]_; reduced by Northmen, [pg 26]_.

Adalbert, [pg xxi]_.; [pg 104]_, [pg 106]_.

Adalgis, [pg 15]_.

Africans, envoys to Charles, [pg 121]_.

Aix, Charles’s palace at, [pg 38]_; cathedral at, [pg 42]_; buildings of, [pg 92]_.

Albinus. See Alcuin.

Alcuin of York, [pg xiii]_.; [pg 41]_, [pg 61]_; success of his pupils, [pg 71]_, [pg 72]_.

Aldefonsus of Gallæcia, [pg 28]_.

Aquitania, war in, [pg 13]_.

Aragis, Duke of Beneventum, [pg 21]_.

Ariosto, [pg xxiv]_.

Atto, [pg 157]_.

Avars, war against, [pg 24]_; seizure of their store, [pg 25]_, [pg 107]_; their rings, [pg 106]_.

Baugulfus, Abbot, [pg xii]_.

Bavarian war, [pg 22]_.

Beneventum, [pg 21]_.

Bertrada, mother of Charles, [pg 33]_.

Bishops, how appointed by Charles, [pg 64]_, [pg 66]_; luxury of, [pg 66]_; folly of, [pg 76]_; arrogance of, [pg 77]_; cleanliness rewarded, [pg 78]_; the bishop’s cheeses, [pg 79]_; pride rebuked, [pg 80]_; the adventure of the painted mouse, [pg 82]_; vanity reprimanded, [pg 83]_; preaching enjoined on, [pg 84]_; luxury of, [pg 86]_; churlishness in Greece, [pg 110]_.

Bobbio, monastery of, [pg 71]_.

Boniface, [pg xii]_.

Bretons, conquest of, [pg 20]_.

Carloman, brother of Pippin, [pg 10]_; retires to Monte Cassino, [pg 11]_.

Carloman, brother of Charles, [pg 11]_; dies, [pg 12]_.

Centumcellæ, [pg 31]_.

Chanting, Charles’s care for, [pg 72]_.

Charlemagne. See Charles the Great; the legend of his life, [pg xxiii]_.

Charles the Great, [pg xvii]_.; sole king, [pg 12]_; extent of his conquests, [pg 26]_; buildings, [pg 30]_; fleet, [pg 30]_; private life of, [pg 32]_, etc.; family of, [pg 33]_; treatment of his daughters, [pg 35]_; love of foreigners, [pg 37]_; personal appearance, [pg 37]_; dress, [pg 38]_; knowledge of Latin and Greek, [pg 41]_; fails to learn to write, [pg 41]_; reforms reading and singing, [pg 42]_; fondness for Rome, [pg 43]_; becomes Emperor, [pg 44]_, [pg 91]_; reforms the legal system of the Franks, [pg 44]_; changes the names of winds and months, [pg 45]_; death, [pg 47]_; burial, [pg 47]_ (see also [pg 169]_); will, [pg 50]_.

Charles, Martel, [pg 9]_.

Cicero, [pg 6]_.

[pg 178]

Clement the Scot, [pg 61]_, [pg 62]_.

Constantinople, Emperors of, [pg 29]_; embassy to, [pg 109]_; strange banqueting laws, [pg 111]_.

Dante, [pg xxiv]_.

Deacon “who followed the Italian custom,” strange death of, [pg 100]_.

Desiderius, King of the Lombards, [pg 12]_, [pg 15]_, [pg 22]_, [pg 144]_; alarm at the iron host of Charles, [pg 145]_.

Drogo, Bishop of Metz, [pg 75]_.

Eginhard, [pg xii]_.; career, [pg xiii]_.; writings, [pg xvi]_.; his life of Charlemagne, [pg xvi]_.; birth and education, [pg 1]_; motives for writing, [pg 4]_.

Eishere of Thurgau, [pg 136]_.

Eric, Duke of Friuli, [pg 25]_.

Fasting, Charles’s difficulty with, [pg 39]_, [pg 76]_.

Fastrada, wife of Charles, [pg 33]_; cruelty of, [pg 36]_.

Franks, national dress of, [pg 38]_, [pg 102]_.

Frisian garments, [pg 103]_.

Friuli, the Bishop of, [pg 148]_; hunting party at, [pg 149]_.

Gascons defeat Charles, [pg 19]_.

Gerold, Governor of Bavaria, [pg 25]_.

Godofrid the Dane, [pg 25]_; killed, [pg 26]_, [pg 48]_, [pg 137]_.

Gotefrid. See Godofrid.

Greek, knowledge of, [pg 41]_, [pg 75]_.

Greeks jealous of Charles, [pg 91]_; outwitted by Franks, [pg 111]_; envoys at Charles’s court, [pg 113]_; terror of, [pg 115]_; music of, [pg 115]_; envy of, [pg 141]_.

Grimald, Abbot of St Gall, [pg 71]_.

Hadrian, Pope, [pg 14]_, [pg 16]_; Charles’s sorrow at death of, [pg 35]_, [pg 39]_.

Haistulf, King of Lombards, [pg 14]_.

Haroun al Raschid, [pg 28]_; cedes the holy places to Charles, [pg 29]_, [pg 121]_; Charles’s presents to, [pg 122]_; praises Charles, [pg 123]_; gives the Holy Land to Charles, [pg 124]_.

Hartmuth, Abbot of St Gall, [pg 127]_.

Hasa, battle of, [pg 18]_.

Heitto, Bishop, [pg 114]_.

Hilderich the Merovingian, [pg 8]_, [pg 72]_.

Hildigard, [pg 32]_, [pg 64]_, [pg 77]_, [pg 82]_, [pg 119]_.

Holy places, the, given to Charles, [pg 29]_, [pg 124]_.

Hugo, Duke, [pg 112]_.

Hunold, [pg 13]_.

Huns, war against, [pg 24]_. See Avars.

Imperial title assumed by Charles, [pg 29]_, [pg 44]_, [pg 91]_.

Isambard, [pg 119]_, [pg 120]_.

Julian, [pg 105]_.

Kerold, [pg xxi]_.; [pg 108]_.

Leo, Pope, [pg 39]_; outrage upon, [pg 44]_, [pg 88]_, [pg 74]_.

Lewis of Bavaria, [pg 125]_, [pg 126]_; reprimands luxury, [pg 151]_.

Lewis the Pious, [pg 2]_; declared Emperor by Charles, [pg 46]_, [pg 56]_, [pg 126]_, [pg 128]_; his conversion of the Northmen, [pg 153]_, [pg 155]_; his care for the poor, [pg 156]_; his universal charity, [pg 156]_.

Liutfrid, the knavish steward, [pg 97]_. Liutgard, wife of Charles, [pg 33]_. Lombards, war with, [pg 14]_.

Lupus, Duke of the Gascons, [pg 13]_.

Mainz, the great bridge of, [pg 48]_, [pg 96]_.

Mayors of the Palace, [pg 8]_.

Merovingian kings, [pg 8]_.

Michael, Emperor of Constantinople, [pg 89]_.

Miracles, [pg 98]_, [pg 100]_, [pg 102]_, [pg 142]_.

[pg 179]

Monks, ignorance of, [pg 70]_.

Moors, precautions against, [pg 31]_.

Mulinheim, [pg xv]_.

Northmen, [pg 23]_, [pg 25]_; Charles’s measures against, [pg 30]_; rigorous punishment of, [pg 131]_; Charles’s prophesies concerning them, [pg 139]_; they send envoys to Lewis of Bavaria, [pg 152]_; accept conversion from Lewis the Pious, [pg 153]_; their deceit, [pg 154]_.

Organ, the Greek, [pg 116]_.

Osning, battle of, [pg 18]_.

Otker at Pavia, [pg 144]_, [pg 146]_.

Paris, Gaston, [pg xxiii]_.

Pavia, siege of, [pg 144]_, [pg 147]_, [pg 148]_.

Persians, envoys of, [pg 116]_; hunting party provided for them, [pg 118]_.

Peter of Pisa, [pg 41]_.

Pippin the younger, [pg 9]_; death, [pg 11]_; war against Lombards, [pg 14]_; legend of his march on Rome, [pg 140]_; slays a bull and a lion, [pg 141]_; his encounter with the devil, [pg 142]_.

Pippin, son of Charles, [pg 15]_; fights against Avars, [pg 24]_, [pg 32]_.

Pippin, Charles’s illegitimate son, conspires against him, [pg 36]_, [pg 132]_; sent to the monastery of St Gall, [pg 133]_; gives advice to Charles, [pg 134]_; moves to another monastery, [pg 135]_.

Pluralists, Charles’s dislike of, [pg 77]_.

Portents foretelling Charles’s death, [pg 48]_.

Prumia, monastery of, [pg 36]_.

Reading, how practised at Charles’s court, [pg 69]_.

Regensburg, Lewis’s buildings at, [pg 129]_.

Roland, Præfect of the Breton frontier, [pg 20]_.

Rome, Charles’s fondness for, [pg 43]_; Roman jealousy of the Franks, [pg 73]_.

St Augustine, [pg 40]_.

St Columban, [pg xx]_.

St Gall, [pg xx]_.

St Gall, Monk of, xix.; character of his narrative, [pg xxii]_.

St Gall, monastery of, [pg 75]_, [pg 127]_.

St Pancras, [pg 90]_ (and note).

St Peter of Ghent, [pg xv]_.

St Wandrille, [pg xv]_.

Saxons, war with, [pg 16]_, [pg 108]_; perfidy of, [pg 17]_; transplantation of, [pg 18]_; end of war, [pg 18]_; opinion of the Emperor of Constantinople, [pg 110]_.

Scotch and Charles, [pg 28]_; visit Frankland, [pg 59]_.

Slavs, war with, [pg 23]_.

Spain, expedition to, [pg 19]_.

Stephen, Pope, [pg 8]_, [pg 72]_.

Stracholf of St Gall, [pg 158]_.

Tancho, the bell-founder, [pg 94]_.

Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, [pg 22]_.

Tours, [pg 61]_.

Waifar, Duke of Aquitania, [pg 11]_.

Walafrid, [pg 1]_.

Welatabi, [pg 23]_.

Werinbert, [pg xxi]_.; [pg 104]_.

Wilzi, [pg 23]_.

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