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THE HISTORICAL PAST OF ITALY.
titude; and many of his partisans emulated the gallantry
of the Paladins of Charlemagne, whilst following their
leader into the thickest of the fight. But the science
and steady gallantry of the French overmastered the
disorderly hosts of the Guelphs ; and the victory is still
considered as one of the most important to France.
Philip Augustus endowed a monastery with great wealth
at Senlis, in honour of this overwhelming victory; and
(as the Black Prince had not yet been born, to teach the
milder graces of courtesy to the vanquished) all the
prisoners of note were ignominiously bound by the same
cords they had provided for the captives they had hoped
to make.
After this utter defeat, Otho IV. lost all shadow of
power. He was, of course, deserted on all hands; and
on the 24th of June, 1215, Frederick made a triumphal
entry into Aix-la-Chapelle, and there received the “ silver
crown ” of Germany, as the avowed nominee of France
and of Rome. Next day he was consecrated, in due
form, in the Church of the Holy Virgin.
The See of Cologne being vacant, he was not crowned
in the royal chapel, as usual with his predecessors ; but
he assisted at mass, seated on the throne of Charlemagne,
a chair or seat of unpolished marble, which had been
removed from the tomb of the great Emperor by order of
Frederick Barbarossa, after having been buried since 814.
The Papal legate, the Archbishop of Mayence, sat on one
side, and the Archbishop of Treves on the other. After
the ceremonies of mass and of the litanies had been per-
formed, a series of questions were put, and answers
made, in Latin.
The Archbishop then asked the assembled multitude
if they freely accepted Frederick as Sovereign, and were
willing to pledge him their fealty. They assented with
ready cries. Frederick was then anointed with holy
oil, with which his forehead, arms, and shoulders were
touched; his feet were placed in the pure white royal
sandals ; a stole, shaped as a cross, was hung round his
neck; the sword of state, ring of office, mantle of
THE HISTORICAL PAST OF ITALY.
titude; and many of his partisans emulated the gallantry
of the Paladins of Charlemagne, whilst following their
leader into the thickest of the fight. But the science
and steady gallantry of the French overmastered the
disorderly hosts of the Guelphs ; and the victory is still
considered as one of the most important to France.
Philip Augustus endowed a monastery with great wealth
at Senlis, in honour of this overwhelming victory; and
(as the Black Prince had not yet been born, to teach the
milder graces of courtesy to the vanquished) all the
prisoners of note were ignominiously bound by the same
cords they had provided for the captives they had hoped
to make.
After this utter defeat, Otho IV. lost all shadow of
power. He was, of course, deserted on all hands; and
on the 24th of June, 1215, Frederick made a triumphal
entry into Aix-la-Chapelle, and there received the “ silver
crown ” of Germany, as the avowed nominee of France
and of Rome. Next day he was consecrated, in due
form, in the Church of the Holy Virgin.
The See of Cologne being vacant, he was not crowned
in the royal chapel, as usual with his predecessors ; but
he assisted at mass, seated on the throne of Charlemagne,
a chair or seat of unpolished marble, which had been
removed from the tomb of the great Emperor by order of
Frederick Barbarossa, after having been buried since 814.
The Papal legate, the Archbishop of Mayence, sat on one
side, and the Archbishop of Treves on the other. After
the ceremonies of mass and of the litanies had been per-
formed, a series of questions were put, and answers
made, in Latin.
The Archbishop then asked the assembled multitude
if they freely accepted Frederick as Sovereign, and were
willing to pledge him their fealty. They assented with
ready cries. Frederick was then anointed with holy
oil, with which his forehead, arms, and shoulders were
touched; his feet were placed in the pure white royal
sandals ; a stole, shaped as a cross, was hung round his
neck; the sword of state, ring of office, mantle of