Charles takes Pavia
The Royal Frankish Annals report that Charles returned from Rome and took Pavia and King Desiderius.
What this does and does not establish
The passage describes the capture of the city and its king. No particular terms of capture are specified.
- 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
- DCCLXXIIII
- How we use it
- Year only.
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Dating notes from the research record
The original Latin additive numeral explicitly identifies the AD 774 annual entry. The preceding entry describes the siege beginning; the capture belongs to the new heading. Passage at line 121, character range [18178,18345).
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Annales regni Francorum
Frankish court annalists
Quoted text (Latin)
Et revertente domno Carolo rege a Roma, et iterum ad Papiam pervenit, ipsam civitatem coepit et Desiderium regem cum uxore et filia vel cum omni thesauro eius palatii.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
And upon his return from Rome, King Charles again reached Pavia and took the city itself and King Desiderius with his wife and daughter and all the treasure of his palace.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Annales regni Francorum https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=264822 Public-domain historical original. Wikisource contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Attribute the fixed transcription and share adapted excerpts alike. Project working translation.
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
This is a corrected version of this record. During research, before this release, an earlier version was withdrawn after independent review and replaced by this one.
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