In 849, the Frankish king Lothar commissioned a copy of the Gospels from the monks of St. Martin in Tours to commemorate reconciliation with his brother Charles.
Notes on verification
Core facts (date, patron, location, reconciliation context) are corroborated by Wikipedia, an academic paper, and Yale's library catalog. However, Charles was Lothar's half-brother, not full brother, and some recent scholarship dates production to c. 842 rather than strictly tying it to the 849 reconciliation, so the traditional framing is not universally accepted. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.875 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- The French Collection (July 24, 1995) (seed:culture_and_philosophy)
- https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/dfa9aa0b-40f7-4b88-91b2-fdd3ed79bfe9/10_36253_978-88-5518-623-0_03.pdf (corroboration)
- https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2218949 (corroboration)