Empress arrives in Rome
The Annales Hildesheimenses report that the empress arrived in Rome from Constantinople to join the younger Emperor Otto.
What this does and does not establish
OpenMGH bsb00000761 (22d4951a0b0fc66f). Both supplied representations agree. The selected passage explicitly records arrival at Rome; it does not name the empress or describe a marriage.
- 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
- 972, 18. Kal. Mai., octaba pascae
- 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 hild.txt and hild.xml, lines 1014–1048, including the 971, 972, and 973 headings. Inclusive Roman reckoning converts 18. Kal. Mai. to 14 April. The entry explicitly places this at the Easter octave under 972, after Christmas and Easter, yielding Julian 14 April 972 without a Christmas-year adjustment. Original quotation begins at line 1028, character 50989.
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
Line and character numbers under “Location” refer to the project’s retained copy of the source. For database rows, “Edition” names the batch of rows that was fetched together.
Source 1 · Supports the statement
Annales Hildesheimenses
Hildesheim annalists
Quoted text (Latin)
Ottoni imperatori iuniori venit imperatrix Romam
de Constantinopoli 18. Kal. Mai. octaba pascae.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The empress came from Constantinople to Rome to the younger Emperor Otto on the eighteenth day before the Kalends of May, the octave of Easter.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Annales Hildesheimenses. OpenMGH, MGH and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CC BY 4.0. https://www.mgh.de/en/digital-mgh/openmgh Latin TEI markup removed for citation. Project translation.
Exact source version
41675467891565dbbc1cf8f653deaf2725f28d61f1e5b249780e3392f07eb080Checks and changes
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.
Revision s901_hild_934_972_1
Exact revision fingerprint
410a94fad77a0865150e87c17a31cdc9c7759b79d6cd069ac9817bcc3661c47d