| Keywords |
- Name: Adelchis, [wurzel: ]
- Ethnonym: Beneventani, [wurzel: Beventan]
- Region: Beneventum (Benevento), [wurzel: benevent*]
- Name: Hludowicus, [wurzel: ]
- Region: Italia, [wurzel: Itali]
- Name: Karolus III, [wurzel: ]
- Region: Vesontio, [wurzel: ]
- Keyword: episcopus, [wurzel: episcop]
- Keyword: imperator, [wurzel: imperator]
- Keyword: terra, [wurzel: ]
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| ID |
5570 |
| Text |
Annales Bertiniani (862 - 882) Hincmar of Reims |
| Quotation |
Dum autem Karolus in Vesontio moraretur, missi sui, quod in Italiam praemiserat nunciaverunt ei, quod ipse imperator Hludowicus viveret et sanus corpore esset. Nam Adalgisus cum aliis Beneventanis adversus ipsum imperatorem conspiravit, quoniam idem imperatir factione uxoris suae eum in perpetuum exilium deducere disponebat. Et cum idem Adalgisus noctu super ipsum imperatorem irruere disposuisset, isdem cum uxore sua et cum eis quos secum habebat quandam turrem altam valde munitissimam ascendit et ibi per tres dies cum suis de defendit. Tandem episcopus ipsius civitatis obtinuit apud Beneventanos, ut, acceptis ab eodem imperatore sacramentis, illum vivum et sanum abscedere permitterent. Iuravit autem pise et uxor eius et filia eius ac omnes qui quos secum habebat, quia numquam vel nusquam pro eadem causa ullam vindictam aut per se aut per quemcumque de ipsa causa erga se perpetrata requireret et numquam cum hoste in Beneventanam terram intraret. |
| Translation |
trans. Nelson, a. 871, pp. 175-176. Charles was still at Besançon when the envoys he had sent on ahead to Italy came back with the news that the Emperor Louis was alive after all and in good health. This is what had happened: Adalgis had conspired with other Beneventans against the emperor, because the emperor at his wife’s instigation had been planning to sent (!) Adalgis into permanent eile. Adalgis in turn had planned a night-attack on him, but the emperor along with his wife and those of his men he had with him went up into a high and very-well fortified tower, where he and his men defended themselves for three whole days. Finally the bishop of Benevento got the Beneventans to agree to terms: the emperor was to give them solemn oaths, and in return they would let him go, safe and sound. The emperor, his wife and daughter, and all the men he had with him then swore that they would never in any way seek any vengeance at all for what had just happened not take any reprisal, whether in person or through anyone else, for the crime committed against him; nor would the emperor ever enter Beneventan territory with an army. |
| Summary |
Charles the Fat, while at Besancon, learns that Louis II is not dead, but was besieged by Prince Adelchis and a group of Beneventans for just three days. Thanks to the mediation of Bishop Aio of Benevento, Louis and his family are set free after making an oath not to take revenge and not to return to return to Benevento with an army. The conspiracy itself is explained as the result of a purported scheme to exile Adelchis, instigated by the empress Angilberga. |
| Quotation source |
a. 871, pp. 117-118 |
| Temporal Coverage |
871 - 871 |
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