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As regards Suger's "Hi-Toned and grandiose ideas" about the French
dynasty, he failed once more:
As Louis the Fat had been crowned in Orleans - an extraordinary event -,
Suger hoped for a while that the king would omit Reims as crowning
place.
So the Dionysian planned to "re-establish" Saint-Denis as crowning place
of the French kings - by a forged charter of Charlemagne: D 286 - MGH D.
Kar. 286. He didn't have success. After the rediscovery of the
Sainte-Ampoule (the heavenly oil of Clovis) in the Reims cathedral
(after 1108? surely before 1130), Reims was incontestably the one and
only crowning place in France. Louis' son Philip was crowned in Reims,
in 1129. BTW: Louis VI was very familiar with Rainald, archbishop of
Reims, too.
And what's about Louis VII?
He died in Paris after having been paralysed by stroke for a year. But
he was a clever guy and avoided the embarassing aristocratic crypts: His
body passed Saint-Denis nearby, evaded his brothers (Henry) former
"royal" abbeys - approx. half a dozen - and his mother's convent in
Montmartre and - preferred a "young and lively" Cistercian abbey "en
plein air" as burial place. What an posthumous anti-aristocratic irony
and likeable gesture!
Kind regards
Werner Robl
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