Royal expedition into Italy around Michaelmas
The Chronica regia Coloniensis places the king’s expedition into Italy around the feast of Saint Michael.
What this does and does not establish
OpenMGH bsb00000768, second parallel recension. This records an expedition occurring, rather than merely its proclamation. The first recension at lines 3768–3769 records its proclamation without the feast date. Both accounts subsequently extend into the Roman coronation narrative; that continuation does not supply the expedition’s year.
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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 Domini 1154, around Saint Michael’s feast
- 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
The actual preceding heading in this recension is cologne.txt line 3792, '3. Anno Domini 1154.' Michaelmas places the occurrence around 29 September, within Julian AD 1154; 'circa' precludes an exact day. Examined cologne.txt and cologne.xml lines 3767–3832, tracing both columns across the page break. Raw TEI locates the quotation at bsb00000768_00117_27–28. Original quotation begins at line 3793, character 203188.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronica regia Coloniensis
Chronica regia Coloniensis; critical edition, MGH
Quoted text (Latin)
Circa festum sancti Mychahelis expedicio regis facta est
in Italiam.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Around the feast of Saint Michael, the king’s expedition into Italy took place.
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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