Lothair crowned at Aachen
The Annales regni Francorum states that the emperor crowned his eldest son Lothair at an assembly in Aachen and made him a partner in his imperial title and rule.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource raw revision 264822. This is Lothair's coronation; the supplied passage offers no contradictory account or alternative date.
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- 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
- DCCCXVII; after Maundy Thursday and the subsequent hunting visit
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Examined arf.wikitext, lines 480–514. The 817 heading is at line 489; the excerpt is at line 499. Line 497 places the preceding accident on Maundy Thursday and the departure for Nijmegen twenty days afterward; line 499 follows that visit and precedes the Vosges hunting journey. The next year begins at line 505. Thus this episode falls within Julian AD 817, away from Christmas rollover; no exact coronation day is supplied. Original quotation begins at line 499, character 105984.
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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)
Unde reversus generalem populi sui conventum Aquisgrani more solito habuit, in quo filium suum primogenitum Hlotharium coronavit et nominis atque imperii sui socium sibi constituitAI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Having returned from there, he held the customary general assembly of his people at Aachen, at which he crowned his firstborn son Lothair and made him his partner in his title and imperial rule.
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