It was. At the end of January 814, in the forty-seventh year of his reign, Charlemagne came down with a fever, accompanied by a pain in his side. He tried to cure himself with extreme fasting, but this made things worse. At nine o’clock in the morning on January 28 the emperor died, and was buried with great solemnity at Aachen. “The Franks, the Romans, all Christians are stung with worry and great mourning,”
