THE ADDENDA
I have appended four Addenda. Addendum I, the Emperor Louis's charter of immunities (29 January 815), confirms
that issued by Charlemagne (16 March 769) to Abbot Hado of Corbie,[37]
as Charlemagne had confirmed the immunities
granted by the Merovingian kings and his father Pepin before him. The editor Levillain has persuasively but not irrefutably
argued that this charter was presented to the second Adalhard ("the Younger") rather than to our author; however,
any doubt about who received it does not affect the precision of its contents, which clearly indicate the legal status of all
Corbie property alluded to in the Directives. Addendum II, a document contemporary with the Directives, was issued
at the abbey of St. Wandrille[38]
(Fontanella), about seventy-five air miles southwest of Corbie on the lower Seine River.
Fontanella and Corbie were of comparable size. Addendum III indicates by genealogy the relationship of Bernhard's
family, including our Adalhard and his brother Wala who succeeded him to the abbacy, to the royal Carolingians.
Addendum IV, an epitaph commemorating Adalhard's death, was written shortly after that event by Paschasius Ratpertus,
monk of Corbie and later its abbot.
