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''Codex Balduini Trevirensis'' (also known as the ''Balduineum'', or as ''Codex Balduineus''), is an illustrated chronicle made for Baldwin of Luxemburg,
archbishop of Trier The Diocese of Trier (), in English historically also known as ''Treves'' () from French ''Trèves'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic church in Germany.Henry VII. It covers Henry's Italian campaign of 1310–1313, in which Baldwin himself had been a participant. In this campaign, Henry sought papal coronation as emperor. He successfully brought
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under imperial control and was crowned
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in Milan. He entered Rome by force, but as St Peter's Basilica remained in the hands of his enemies he was crowned emperor at the Lateran on 29 June 1312 by three cardinals of
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(who was himself in exile at
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). Henry died from malaria a year later, still on campaign. The codex consists of 37 parchment folia with large illustrations and short annotations describing the main events of Henry's campaign. It also contains the oldest illustration of the
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of
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. It is kept in the state archive of
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at
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(MS 1 C 1).


References

*Georg Irmer, ''Die Romfahrt Kaiser Heinrich's VII im Bildercyclus des Codex Balduini Trevirensis'' (1881)
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. * Wolfgang Schmid, ''Kaiser Heinrichs Romfahrt. Zur Inszenierung von Politik in einer Trierer Bilderhandschrift des 14. Jahrhunderts'', ''Mittelrheinische Hefte'' 21 (2000). * Michel Margue, Michel Pauly, Wolfgang Schmid (eds.) (2009),: ''Der Weg zur Kaiserkrone. Der Romzug Heinrichs VII. in der Darstellung Erzbischof Balduins von Trier'', ''Publications du CLUDEM'' 24,) Kliomedia, Trier (2009). 1340s books 14th-century manuscripts 14th-century history books Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines Medieval historical texts Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor Illustrated books {{manuscript-stub