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A picture of Charlemagne embracing his nephew Roland, contained in the poem’s original document. Chanson d'Aspremont (or simply Aspremont, or Agolant [1]) is a 12th-century Old French chanson de geste (before 1190 [2]). The poem comprises 11, 376 verses (unusually long for a chanson de geste [3]), grouped into rhymed laisses.
The Frankish emperor Charlemagne took an intense interest in church music, and its propagation and adequate performance throughout his empire.He not only caused liturgical music to flourish in his own time, throughout his empire in Western Europe, but he laid the foundations for the subsequent musical culture of the region.
Charlemagne's tomb was opened in 1861 by scientists who reconstructed his skeleton and measured it at 1.92 metres (6 ft 4 in) in length, roughly equivalent to Einhard's seven feet. [359] A 2010 estimate of his height from an X-ray and CT scan of his tibia was 1.84 metres (6 ft 0 in); this puts him in the 99th percentile of height for his period ...
Successors of Charlemagne were crowned in Rome for several centuries, where they received the imperial crown in St. Peter's Basilica from the pope. The Iron Crown of Lombardy (with the title King of Italy or King of the Lombards) was conferred in the Church of St. Ambrose at Milan or at the cathedral of Monza, [N 2] that of Burgundy at Arles.
Contemporaneous depictions of Charlemagne and related rulers suggest he sported a mustache, but not a beard. [1] The motif of Charlemagne's beard appears in 11th-century chansons de geste and especially the Song of Roland, which has a verse describing Charlemagne: "Blanche ad la barbe et tut flurit le chef", which translates as "his beard is white, and all his hair is greying."
Behind Charlemagne, a child page holds the royal crown that he just took off to receive the imperial one. It is quite likely that the fresco refers to the Concordat of Bologna, negotiated between the Holy See and the kingdom of France in 1515, since Leo III is in fact a portrait of Leo X and Charlemagne a portrait of Francis I. [3]
The opening of Ystoria Carolo Magno: Rhamant Otfel (Jesus College, Oxford MS 111.), a translation into Middle Welsh of Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne. Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne (The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne) [1] is an Old French chanson de geste (epic poem) dealing with a fictional expedition by Charlemagne and his paladins.
At this time a similar but open crown, the one of the queen, existed too. One of them was melted down in 1590 by the Catholic League during the siege of Paris. The remaining crown was used up to the reign of King Louis XVI, who was crowned in 1775 in the Reims Cathedral. [1] The crown of Joan of Évreux was then used for the coronation of the ...