Episcopal synod assembled at Frankfurt
The annals report that a large synod of bishops from Gaul, Germany, and Italy assembled at Frankfurt in the presence of Charlemagne and Pope Hadrian's envoys.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 264822. Frankfurt is established by the immediately preceding Franconofurt and ibique. The passage does not give the synod's exact date or identify its meeting as occurring on Easter itself.
- 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
- DCCXCIIII; following the Easter notice, before the Saxon expedition
- 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
arf.wikitext line 235 explicitly gives DCCXCIIII (794). Its Frankfurt Easter notice anchors the subsequent assembly in the spring-to-campaign sequence; line 237 then narrates the Saxon expedition and eventual Christmas return. Read neighboring annals 793–795, lines 233–241. No Christmas-year conversion or exact Easter date is inferred. Checked arf-edition.json and edition-response-la.json. Original quotation begins at line 235, character 50043.
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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)
ibique congregata est synodus magna episcoporum Galliarum, Germanorum, Italorum in praesentia iamfati principis et missorum domni apostolici Adriani, quorum nomina haec sunt, Theofilactus et Stephanus episcopi.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
And there a great synod of bishops of the Gauls, Germans, and Italians assembled in the presence of the aforementioned ruler and the envoys of the lord pope Hadrian, whose names are these: the bishops Theophylact and Stephen.
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Exact source version
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