Note 56 — BOOK I CONCERNING THE PIETY OF CHARLES AND HIS CARE OF THE CHURCH
A. J. (Arthur James) Grant translation
The visit of Albinus (or Alcuin) of York to the court of King Charles is alluded to in Eginhard’s Life of Charles, Ch. xxv. His arrival in Frankland occurred in 781, and was of the utmost importance in stimulating and guiding the intellectual renascence of Charles’s reign.