 It has been suggested that the annals were first written by scribes in the court of Louis the Pious.There is no doubt that they were later continued as an independent narrative, eventually becoming somewhat emancipated from the Palace since the early 840s, first by Prudentius of Troyes (†861) and thereafter Hincmar of Reims (until 882), on whose lost manuscript their tradition is almost entirely dependent.Moreover, there are strong hints that the original text of the annals underwent at least minor changes under the latter's supervision.