Otto consecrated and enthroned at Aachen
The Chronica regia Coloniensis reports that Otto entered Aachen and was consecrated and enthroned by Archbishop Adolf of Cologne.
What this does and does not establish
Aachen is explicitly identified at line 6526; Otto is identified in the preceding election narrative. This passage follows the parallel accounts in a common printed text. The excerpt supplies no month or day. The later placement of Richard of England's death before the next annual heading cautions against treating the entire annual section as chronologically uniform.
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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
- Anno dominicae incarnationis 1198; month and day unspecified
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
The actual preceding heading for the first account is cologne.txt line 6434, explicitly 1198; the parallel account has its own 1198 heading at 6453. The election-to-Aachen sequence places this occurrence in Julian AD 1198; no narrower date is inferred. Examined cologne.txt lines 6420–6588 and cologne.xml lines 6430–6615, checking parallel variants, column boundaries, and the subsequent 1199 headings. Exact quotation locator: bsb00000768_00190_27–28. The precisely dated entry at 11685–11687 was excluded because it belongs to the separate Annales Sancti Gereonis. Original quotation begins at line 6530, character 357917.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronica regia Coloniensis
Chronica regia Coloniensis; critical edition, MGH
Quoted text (Latin)
et ingressus, ab Adolfo Coloniensi
archiepiscopo consecratus intronizatur.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
and having entered, he is consecrated by Adolf, archbishop of Cologne, and enthroned.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Chronica regia Coloniensis. OpenMGH, MGH and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CC BY 4.0. https://www.mgh.de/en/digital-mgh/openmgh Markup stripped with original line boundaries; project translation.
Exact source version
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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
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