Note 68 — BOOK I CONCERNING THE PIETY OF CHARLES AND HIS CARE OF THE CHURCH
A. J. (Arthur James) Grant translation
This celebrated coronation took place on Christmas Day of the year 800, and marks the foundation of the Mediæval Empire. Charles is known to have expressed regret either at the fact or the manner of the presentation of the imperial crown; and the Monk of St Gall is not so wide of the point as usual in the account he gives of the causes of his hesitation.