Louis associated with imperial rule at Aachen
The Annales regni Francorum state that Charlemagne crowned his son Louis at Aachen and associated him with the imperial title.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource raw revision 264822. This is Louis's elevation, not Charlemagne's coronation in 800. No contradictory account of this episode occurs in the supplied surrounding passages; no independent source was supplied.
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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
- DCCCXIII; after the opening spring notice
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read arf.wikitext lines 430–469. The original numeral DCCCXIII at heading line 449 denotes AD 813. Line 449 proceeds from winter to the beginning of spring; the selected episode follows with 'Ac deinde' at line 451. The next annal begins DCCCXIIII at line 459, with Charlemagne's death on 28 January. This places Louis's elevation within Julian AD 813, after the spring notice, without relying on a Christmas-year boundary or assigning an unsupported day. Original quotation begins at line 451, character 93116.
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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)
Ac deinde habito generali conventu, evocatum ad se apud Aquasgrani filium suum Hludowicum Aquitaniae regem, coronam illi inposuit et imperialis nominis sibi consortem fecit;AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
And then, having held a general assembly and summoned to himself at Aachen his son Louis, king of Aquitaine, he placed a crown upon him and made him his associate in the imperial title;
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