CHARLES LE CHAUVE son of Louis the Pious, grandson of Charle - Lot 284

CHARLES LE CHAUVE son of Louis the Pious, grandson of Charlemagne Abbot of Saint Denis June 20, 840 - October 6, 877 + GRATIA D (dash) I R (four dots) EX. Carolingian monogram KAROLVS within a grenetis. R/. SCI ΔIONVSI (dot) I M (dotted). Cross within a grenetis. ♦ Depeyrot 896; Prou 342 Silver denarius Monastère de SAINT DENIS (Seine). (1,54 g) Rare workshop. Very fine. Exemplary Étienne Regnard Collection (2023) n°150 Charles was nicknamed le Chauve (the Bald) in the following circumstances: as early as 867, he was lay abbot of Saint-Denis. On May 5, 877, the day of the consecration by Pope John VIII of the collegiate church of Sainte-Marie, future abbey of Saint-Corneille de Compiègne, he is said to have shaved his head as a sign of submission to the Church, despite Frankish custom requiring a king to have long hair.