them, and made his son Pepin, King of the whole of Italy which he had conquered in this war.In Notkers account, once Pepin the Short was dead, the Longobards began to harass the Romans. Charlemagne then marched into Italy and without a battle or any bloodshed intimidated the Longobards into surrendering to him.After the campaign at Longobard, Einhard states that Charlemagne put down a revolt of the Duke of Fruili yet Notker mentions only that Charlemagne visited a dying bishop in the city of Fruili. In the war with the Avars or Huns, Einhard and Notker support each other in the amount of time in took for Charlemagne to completely demolish the Huns and the degree to which the devastation was complete. Both stressed the amount of gold, silver and precious booty taken from the Huns during their own campaigns against other nations. Notker elaborated on the rings or barriers, which the Huns had erected to protect them against enemies, but it wasnt enough to stop Charlemagne.In another discrepancy between the two lives of Charlemagne, Einhard tells of a King Godefrid who planned to invade the palace itself but was killed by one of his followers before he could act. Notker on the other hand states that King Godefrid invaded and settled in the Frankish kingdom of Moselle. His death, according to Notker, was at the hands of his own son who killed him because he had just repudiated his mother and was about to marry another woman.Charlemagne was on the best of terms with Harun-al-Rachid, the King of the Persians and was the recipient of elaborate gifts from the Orient. Notker tells a story that Charlemagne wouldnt see the envoys from the Persians for a long time but did eventually receive them and treat them well. He states that the envoys brought monkeys, balsam, nard, and unguents and medications.Einhard describes the many outstanding projects built by Charlemagne including the remarkable construction of the church of the Holy Mother of God at...
