In 785-786, at Charlemagne's request, Pope Adrian I sent a papal sacramentary with Roman chants to the Carolingian court.

Indeed, this marriage to Louis marks the beginning of her rise as an influential figure in the Carolingian court.

The keynote for the last years of Offa, however, is sounded by an event much closer to home than the Carolingian court.

In this period as well, Carolingian courts and Gothic law were still in effect in Besalú, as late as 1031.

As a secular title, praepositus is also very old, dating to the praepositus sacri cubiculi of the late Roman Empire, and the praepositus palatii of the Carolingian court.

Archaeologists have come up with data at Dorestad, the trading emporium through which the Carolingian court had been supplied, showing protracted decline with, allegedly, a sharp downturn c. 830.

In a Carolingian court, a post like Adalard's (the seneschal organised the feeding and accommodation of the royal household) gave access to the king and also control over others' access.

This work was based upon a "Mensuratio orbis" prepared by order of Theodosius II (435), a manuscript copy of which had found its way to the Carolingian court.

At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s.

Some regard it as the sole textual example of the otherwise little known West Franconian dialect, which is assumed to have been the language of the Carolingian court.