Einhard has also told us that: He had such care of the upbringing of his sons and daughters that he never dined without them when he was at home and never travelled without them.

His sons rode along with him and his daughters followed in the rear.

Some of his guards, chosen for this very purpose, watched the end of the line of march where his daughters travelled.

They were very beautiful and much beloved by their father, and, therefore, it is strange that he would give them in marriage to no one, either among his own people or of a foreign state.

But up to his death he kept them all at home saying he could not forgo their society.[20] Then, with luck, Bodo, quaking at the knees, might even behold a portent new to his experience, the emperor's elephant.