Charlemagne dies at Aachen
The Annales regni Francorum state that Charlemagne died while wintering at Aachen on 28 January 814.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource raw revision 264822. The annal's approximate age and regnal counts are not needed to establish the event's calendar year. No independent variant was supplied.
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- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- DCCCXIIII, V. Kal. Febr.
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read arf.wikitext lines 449–469, including the preceding 813 annal, heading and excerpt at line 459, and the following succession account at line 461. Original DCCCXIIII means AD 814; V. Kal. Febr., counted inclusively backward from 1 February, is 28 January in the Julian calendar. The explicit January date fixes the event in AD 814; the preceding spring-led 813 sequence supplies boundary context. Original quotation begins at line 459, character 95888.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Annales regni Francorum
Frankish court annalists
Quoted text (Latin)
Domnus Karolus imperator, dum Aquisgrani hiemaret, anno aetatis circiter septuagesimo primo, regni autem quadragesimo septimo subactaeque Italiae quadragesimo tertio, ex quo vero imperator et augustus appellatus est, anno XIIII., V. Kal. Febr. rebus humanis excessit.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The lord emperor Charles, while wintering at Aachen, in approximately the seventy-first year of his life, the forty-seventh of his reign and the forty-third since Italy had been subdued, and in the fourteenth year since he had been called emperor and Augustus, departed this life on the fifth day before the Kalends of February.
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