In a little while, he became known among them by an Indian name, signifying "the bald chief." "A sobriquet," observes the captain, "for which I can find no parallel in history since the days of '
Charles the Bald.'"
In 876 his descendant,
Charles the Bald, gave the relic to the cathedral at Chartres where it is kept to this day in a golden reliquary beside the high altar.
By the by, the number 845 on the Tresor bottle is something to do with the year Charlemagne's grandson
Charles the Bald (insert one-liner) started growing the grape that became Chenin Blanc.
Byron examines American poet Pound's (1885-1972) interest in, research into, and use of ninth-century Irish theologian, scholar, and poet Johannes Scottus Eriugena, who came to prominence at the Carolingian court of
Charles the Bald. In particular, he analyzes two series of notes Pound wrote during his 1939-40 second phase of study, which drew from a Latin edition of Eriugena's complete work.
The chapter concludes with an analysis of the deployment of this imagery in the court of
Charles the Bald, including Flincmar of Rheims's treatise De regis persona et regio ministerio and Sedulius Scottus' Liber de rectoribus Christianis.
" These included an Anglo-Saxon penny of Cynethryth, struck in AD 787-792, a penny of Wulfred of Canterbury, struck around AD 810, ninth century Carolingian deniers of Louis the Pious and
Charles the Bald, and three lead weights of Viking type.
A case in point is the Antiphoner of
Charles the Bald (BnF lat.
Then he shifts to the nobility, going back to 1477 to look at the reaction to the death of
Charles the Bald, then discussing the position of the nobility at court.
It therefore comes as something of a surprise to read Celia Chazelle's magnificent exegesis of an ivory crucifixion scene originally made for
Charles the Bald (now the cover of the Pericopes of Henry II in Munich).
The appearance of the word in a letter of King
Charles the Bald may also suggest Eriugena's authorship of that letter.
Cardiff-based numismatist Edward Besley said: ``This is a fragment of a coin with the imprint of
Charles the Bald, who was the king of Aquitaine in France, between 848AD and 877AD.
Charles the Bald - as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)