# Later annals and Einhard print Charles’s death at Aachen on 28 January 814

Date: 1880

## The fact

Einhard and annals as later English date the death to 28 January 814 at Aachen. The dated public carrier includes that later narrative plus the cathedral’s memory. A shared death-date is a modest cohesion calendar, not a welfare miracle.

## Context

High confidence on the received date as later told.

[Charlemagne](/people/charlemagne) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, Vatican-adjacent, or annalistic edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10855; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A 814 death notice is not an 800 crown.

A 814 death notice is not an 800 crown.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Charlemagne: https://factrail.ai/people/charlemagne

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.aachenerdom.de/en/
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10855

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-814-death-as-later