Often on this blog, I translate primary sources for 9th-11th century France and its neighbours into English, and it occured to me that it might be useful if I put them all together. So here they are, in chronological order of production:
800, very approximately: an early medieval love letter.
819, March 7th: a charter of Einhard freeing a slave and making him a Roman citizen.
829: the canons of the Council of Paris about kingship.
859, June 14th: Charles the Bald’s accusations of treachery against Archbishop Wanilo of Sens.
860, circa: a mass from Saint-Martin of Tours praying for God’s help against barbarian persecution.
869, April 17th: a charter of King Salomon of Brittany in favour of the abbey of Plélan.
877: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims’ Ordo to crown King Louis the Stammerer.
877, January 6th: a diploma of Charles the Bald in favour of Saint-Bénigne of Dijon.
877, 5th May: a diploma of Charles the Bald endowing the abbey of Notre-Dame of Carlopolis.
878, 18th August: an interpolated (perhaps forged) papal diploma of John VIII in favour of the abbey of Saint-Gilles, issued at the Synod of Troyes.
879, July 25th: a charter of Boso of Provence in favour of the abbey of Montiéramey.
879, October 15th: the records of the Convention of Mantaille, electing Boso of Provence as king.
879, November 8th: a diploma of Boso of Provence in favour of the church of Autun.
880, November 30th: a diploma of Carloman II in favour of the church of Autun.
881, June 5th: a diploma of Carloman II in favour of Saint-Gondon-sur-Loire, a cell of the community of Saint-Florent.
882, August 8th: a diploma of Carloman II in favour of Archdeacon Otbert of Langres.
882, November 4th: a diploma of Charles the Fat confirming an exchange made between Archdeacon Otbert of Langres and Guy of Spoleto.
883, January 23rd: a diploma of Carloman II in favour of the abbey of Alfa.
884, March: the last-ever Carolingian capitulary, issued by Carloman II at Ver, and targetted at thieves.
884, March 13th: a diploma of Carloman II in favour of the church of Châlons-sur-Marne.
885, May 20th: a diploma of Charles the Fat in favour of the church of Langres.
885, December 3rd: a charter of Hugh the Abbot freeing a slave and making him a Roman citizen.
886, October 27th: a diploma of Charles the Fat confirming an exchange between Saint-Aignan of Orléans and the brothers Archbishop Adalald of Tours and Bishop Raino of Angers.
887, May 18th: a charter from the synod of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon in favour of the church of Langres.
888: the Ordo to crown the first non-Carolingian West Frankish king, Odo.
900, circa: the Erdmann Ordo, a late Carolingian king-making liturgy.
913, August 13th: a royal diploma of Charles the Simple granting the cathedral of Trier the right to freely elect their archbishops.
928, November: a royal diploma of Hugh of Arles in favour of the abbey of Saint-Oyen-de-Joux.
935, circa: the Ordo of Seven Forms, a liturgy for king making from the earlier part of the tenth century.
935, circa: a fragment of a lost history about Duke Arnulf the Bad of Bavaria.
936, June 24th: a royal diploma of Hugh of Arles grating 700 manses to his nephew Hugh the Cisalpine.
936, July 21st: a royal diploma of Louis IV in favour of the cathedral of Autun.
959, September: a charter describing a judgement of Bishop Stephen II of Clermont.
960, circa: the so-called ‘Romano-German Pontifical”s coronation liturgy.
962, circa: a genealogy of Count Arnulf the Great of Flanders written by Witger the priest.
979, August 6th: a charter of Liutgard of Chartres and her friend Godeleva granting land to the abbey of Saint-Père de Chartres.
980, circa: the Ratold Ordo, an Anglo-Saxon influenced liturgy for making a king.
989, June 1st: the acts of the Council of Charroux forbidding violence against churches, the poor, and unarmed clergy.
1001, circa: a charter of Bishop Rainald of Angers defending himself against an accusation of simony.
1058, May 23rd: a notice describing the coronation of King Philip I.
1091: a charter describing how Odo, lord of Péronne, restored land to the abbey at Compiègne.
