Annales Iuvavenses

The "Annales Iuvavenses" or Annals of Salzburg were a series of annals written in the 9th and 10th centuries from Salzburg. They are a useful source for southeastern Germany (Bavaria) and Austria where they exist, but they only survive in fragments copied in the 12th century. [Reuter, 138–139.]

According to the "Annales Iuvavenses", in 920 "Baiuarii sponte se reddiderunt Arnolfo duci et regnare eum fecerunt in regno Teutonicorum": "the Bavarians, with some other East Franks, elected Arnulf king in opposition to Henry" (actually in 919). This provides some of the only evidence for the concept of a "German kingdom" before the late 11th century, but it may be a 12th-century interpolation, as most scholars perceive it to be. [Ibid.] The Salzburg annals are also the only source for an assassination attempt on Carloman by the Bavarians in 878. [Ibid, 116.]

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*Reuter, Timothy. "Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056". New York: Longman, 1991.

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