Note 1115 — Chapter VIII · HENRY DUKE OF THE NORMANS. 1149–1154.

Perhaps the most striking indication of the importance of the duke of Aquitaine is the ceremony of the ducal crowning, which Louis, as husband of the duchess, underwent at Poitiers immediately after his marriage; Ord. Vit. (Duchesne, Hist. Norm. Scriptt.), p. 911. There was a special “Ordo ad benedicendum ducem Aquitaniæ” (printed in Besly, Comtes de Poitou, preuves, pp. 183 et seq., and Rer. Gall. Scriptt., vol. xii. pp. 451–453), nearly as solemn as the office for the crowning of a king.