Pippin occupies the Avar ring
The annals report that a message reached Charlemagne in Saxony saying that Pippin and his army were occupying the Avar ring in Pannonia.
What this does and does not establish
Reported through a royal embassy; Pannonia is established by the preceding dispatch of Pippin. The passage supplies no precise site or month. The separately reported death of Pope Hadrian is not used as a chronological anchor.
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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
- DCCXCVI (796), campaigning season; month unspecified
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read arf.wikitext lines 239–257. DCCXCVI is pinned at line 243. Line 247 places the message within Charlemagne's Saxon expedition, after Pippin's dispatch to Pannonia and before his return to Aachen; line 249 then closes with Christmas and Easter. This bounded campaign episode belongs to Julian AD 796, independently of the potentially displaced papal death notice. Edition identity checked in arf-edition.json and edition-response-la.json. Original quotation begins at line 247, character 53478.
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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)
altera, quae dixit Pippino cum exercitu suo in hringo sedere.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The other, which said that Pippin was stationed in the ring with his army.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Annales regni Francorum https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=264822 Public-domain historical original. Wikisource contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Attribute the fixed transcription and share adapted excerpts alike. Project working translation.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. 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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