Charles dies at the palace estate of Quierzy
The continuation of the Chronicle attributed to Fredegar records that Charles died at the palace estate of Quierzy on the Oise after suffering a severe fever.
What this does and does not establish
The notice distinguishes the palace estate reached before the death from the subsequent burial at Saint-Denis. The Royal Frankish Annals separately place the death in their entry for 741 but do not name the death site. Both texts belong to Frankish historical traditions.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- 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
- AN. DCCXLI; undecimo Kal. Novembris
- How we use it
- Year only.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
The continuation places the death after its AN. DCCXLI heading at line 250. Line 252 gives a Roman day reckoned back from the Kalends of November, clear of the winter year boundary; the text does not require a Julian-day assignment here. Royal Frankish Annals line 13 confirms the year numeral DCCXLI. Passage at line 252, character range [136417,136549).
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronicum (Fredegarius)
Fredegar chronicle
Quoted text (Latin)
veniensque Carisiacum villam palatii super Issaram fluvium, valida febre correptus obiit in pace, cunctis in gyro regnis acquisitis.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
And on coming to Quierzy, a palace estate on the river Oise, he was seized by a severe fever and died in peace, all the kingdoms around having been acquired.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Chronicum (Fredegarius), Latin Wikisource revision 228977; project English working translation. Medieval Latin original. Wikisource contributors; CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Attribute fixed revision and English adaptation, share alike. https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=228977
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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