Louis performs public penance at Attigny
The annals state that Emperor Louis performed public confession and penance at the assembly at Attigny in August.
What this does and does not establish
Annales regni Francorum, pinned Wikisource raw revision 264822. The preceding portion of line 567 identifies the emperor and connects the penance with his treatment of his brothers, Bernard, Adalhard and Wala. The record concerns the August penance, not the earlier actions confessed.
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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
- 822, August
- 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 545–603. The original DCCCXXII marker is at line 563; the excerpt at line 567 explicitly says 'in August of the same year.' The subsequent itinerary at line 575 moves from the Attigny assembly through autumn hunting to winter quarters, before the DCCCXXIII marker at line 581. Thus this August event maps to Julian AD 822 without winter-boundary ambiguity. Original quotation begins at line 567, character 124505.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Annales regni Francorum
Frankish court annalists
Quoted text (Latin)
publicam confessionem fecit et paenitentiam egit. Quod tamen in eo conventu, quem eodem anno mense Augusto Attiniaci habuit, in praesentia totius populi sui peregit;AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
He made a public confession and performed penance. This, however, he carried out in the presence of all his people at the assembly which he held at Attigny in August of the same year;
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Exact source version
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