Death of the emperor
The Chronica regia Coloniensis reports that the emperor died on December 4 while returning from Italy.
What this does and does not establish
OpenMGH bsb00000768, recension 1. The subject and return journey appear at lines 3174–3175. Recension 2 independently repeats the same Roman date at lines 3194–3196. The short quotation begins within the sentence, after its description of age and illness.
- 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
- AD 1137, 2 Nonas Decembris
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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
Read cologne.txt at lines 3130–3212 and cologne.xml at lines 3130–3213. Recension 1's governing heading is 'Anno Domini 1137.' at line 3130; the exact quotation is within TEI locator bsb00000768_00100_10 at line 3176. Recension 2's heading is at line 3152. December's Nones are December 5; inclusive Roman reckoning makes 2 Nonas December 4, Julian AD 1137. Original quotation begins at line 3176, character 169757.
File names and line numbers in these notes, and in the limits above, refer to the project’s retained copies of the cited sources. Names such as calendar_headers are the project’s calendar look-ups, and “the investigator” is the research step that prepared the record.
Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronica regia Coloniensis
Chronica regia Coloniensis; critical edition, MGH
Quoted text (Latin)
2. Nonas Decembris obiit.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
He died on the second day before the Nones of December.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Chronica regia Coloniensis. OpenMGH, MGH and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CC BY 4.0. https://www.mgh.de/en/digital-mgh/openmgh Markup stripped with original line boundaries; project translation.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-06. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
No correction has been made to this record’s statement or limits.
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