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Charles's Cross
In the Middle Ages, Charles's Cross ((ラテン語:Crux Caroli Regis)), high in the Pyrenees, marked the frontier between the Kingdom of Navarre and the Duchy of Gascony, specifically the boundary between the Diocese of Bayonne and the Diocese of Pamplona. It was located in the ''Col de Cize'' just north of Roncesvalles on the Way of Saint James.〔John Gillingham (1980), "Richard I and Berengaria of Navarre," ''Historical Research'', 53(128), 163.〕
==History==
According to legend, owing primarily to the ''Liber peregrinationis'' of Aymeric Picaud,〔Book V of the Codex Calixtinus.〕 the cross was planted by Charlemagne when he first crossed the Pyrenees on his way to Zaragoza in 778.〔Carlos Viñas-Valle, ("La Crux Caroli de Roncesvalles es cruz legendaria," ) ''Euskonews''. Accessed 20 October 2008.〕 He reportedly said a prayer to Saint James at the site, thus inaugurating the cult of James in Spain some thirty six years before his relics were rediscovered. The first reference to a cross named after Charles is in an episcopal charter of Bayonne, dated 980.〔Edward Fry (1905), "Roncesvalles," ''The English Historical Review'', 20(77), 31, citing Gaston Paris, ''Poèmes et légendes du moyen âge'' (Paris), 246. Fry considers it a very early reference associating Charlemagne's legendary defeat at Roncesvalles with this pass.〕 A bull of Pope Paschal II in 1106 refers to the limits of the French kingdom as the ''vallis que Cirsia dicitur usque Caroli crucem'' (valley called Cizes as far as Charles's cross). José María Lacarra (1907–1987) affirmed that the cross was originally only a diocesan boundary, of Carolingian provenance, and was associated with the Way of Saint James.〔 The famous Spanish historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal argued that the cross was an important stage in the pilgrim's journey because it marked their entrance into Spain.〔Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. (1969), "The Interaction of Life and Literature in the ''Peregrinationes ad Loca Sancta'' and the ''Chansons de Geste''," ''Speculum'', 44(1), 67; ibid. (1969), "Poetic Reality and Historical Illusion in the Old French Epic," ''The French Review'', 43(1), 27.〕
The cross named after Charles was in fact only one of many crosses, known as the ''croix bornales'', that once marked the diocesan (and international) boundary in the Pyrenees between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Crosses sited near settlements were usually of stone. Those located further up in the mountains were usually of iron, because they were easier to transport and cheaper to manufacture. The ferrous landmarks explain the Basque toponym ''gurutzgorris'' and the Spanish ''cruces rojas'', both meaning "red crosses".〔
In 1160 the ''Vézelay Chronicle'' recorded the cross as the southern boundary of the domain of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married Louis VII of France. The twelfth-century ''Liber'' mentions not only the cross, but also the hospice called ''Rotolandus'', Charlemagne's chapel, and the rock split by Durendal, the sword of Roland, and his tomb at Blaye.〔 The cross is mentioned in Ralph of Diceto, who says that as a result of Richard I's campaigns in 1194 "from the castle of Verneuil until one arrives at Charles's Cross no rebels exist" (''a castello Vernolii quousque veniatur ad crucem Karoli nullus ei rebellis existat'').〔Daniel Power (2004), ''The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 16n.〕〔Ralph of Diceto, ''The Historical Writings of Ralph of Diceto'', ed. William Stubbs (London, 1876), (vol. II ), 192.〕 The ''Annales sancti Albini andegavensis'' (or ''Annales de Saint- Aubin'')〔These annals are untitled in the manuscripts.〕 record that when John became King of England in 1199 he "acquired all the kingdom which was his father's as far as the cross of King Charles" (''adquisivit totum regnum quod erat patris sui usque ad crucem Caroli regis'').〔Louis Halphen, ed. ''Recueil d'annales angevines et vendômoises'' (Paris, 1903), 19–20.〕

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