Pippin besieges Pavia again
The annals report that Pippin returned to Italy, besieged Pavia, and confined Aistulf.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource raw revision 264822. Pavia is an actual siege location. The excerpt reports a siege and confinement, without asserting the city's capture.
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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
- DCCLVI (756); month 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
Read arf.wikitext, lines 39–49. The sentence names Pippin as its subject and places this renewed expedition under DCCLVI (756), after the earlier expedition under DCCLV (755) and before the DCCLVII (757) entry. No boundary-season date conversion is required by the narrative. Original quotation begins at line 43, character 4909.
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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)
iterum iter peragens in Italiam Papiam obsedit, Haistulfum inclusitAI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Making another journey into Italy, he besieged Pavia and confined Aistulf.
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