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Charlemagne’s Courtier: The Complete Einhard
Edited and Translated by: Paul Edward Dutton

Number of quotes: 3


Book ID: 52 Page: 16

Section: 3A2A

I. The family of the Merovingians, from which the Franks used to make their kings, is thought to have lasted down to King Childeric III, whom Pope Stephen II ordered deposed. His long hair was shorn and he was forced into a monastery.

Quote ID: 1156

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 52 Page: 133/134

Section: 2A3

7 (Hampe 47). To Count Poppo 828-840

Einhard [wishes] salvation in the Lord to a magnificent, honorable, and illustrious man, the gracious Count Poppo.

Two poor people have fled to the church of Christ’s blessed martyrs, Marcellinus and Peter [in Seligenstadt], and have confessed that they are guilty. In your presence they were found guilty of robbery, which they committed when they stole wild animals in the lord’s forest. They have already paid of the fine, and should still pay the rest. But they claim that they do not have the means to pay [at present] because of their poverty. Therefore, I beg your Kindness to consider sparing them, as far as it is possible, out of love for the martyrs of Christ, to whom they fled, so that they may not be completely ruined by a crime of this kind, but rather may realize that, in your eyes, it helped them that they fled to the tombs of the holy martyrs.

I hope that you may always prosper in the Lord.

Quote ID: 1157

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 52 Page: 171

Section: 3D1

In the complete run of the Gospels no mention is ever made that our Lord Jesus Christ had taught or commanded prayer to himself, but rather, since he speaks most often of prayer that should be made to God, he advises us to pray to the Father, to ask the Father, to entreat the Father, and to beg him for help in all our times of need. For himself and likewise for others, he decrees, as if he could provide nothing through himself, that the Father should be prayed to. But our faith holds this most firmly, that just as the divinity and substance of the Father and Son is one, so is their power one and the same, and that the prayer, which the one God gave and taught, both should hear together, since both together wanted it to be given and taught.

Quote ID: 1158

Time Periods: 7



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