Editing Duke of Aquitaine (section)

==Coronation==
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The Merovingian kings and dukes of Aquitaine used [[Toulouse]] as their capital.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} The Carolingian kings used different capitals situated farther north. In 765, [[Pepin the Short]] bestowed the captured golden banner of the Aquitainian duke, [[Waifer of Aquitaine|Waiffre]], on the [[Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges|Abbey of Saint Martial]] in Limoges.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} [[Pepin I of Aquitaine]] was buried in [[Poitiers]]. [[Charles the Child]] was crowned at [[Limoges]] and buried at [[Bourges]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} When Aquitaine briefly asserted its independence after the death of [[Charles the Fat]], it was [[Ranulf II of Aquitaine|Ranulf II of Poitou]] who took the royal title.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} In the late tenth century, [[Louis V of France|Louis the Indolent]] was crowned at [[Brioude]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

The Aquitainian ducal coronation procedure is preserved in a late twelfth-century ''ordo'' (formula) from [[Saint-Étienne]] in [[Limoges]], based on an earlier [[Holy Roman Empire|Romano-German]] ''ordo''. In the early thirteenth century a commentary was added to this ''ordo'', which emphasised Limoges as the capital of Aquitaine. The ''ordo'' indicated that the duke received a silk mantle, coronet, banner, sword, spurs, and the ring of [[Valerie of Limoges|Saint Valerie]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}
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A contemporary account of the coronation of [[Richard the Lion-hearted]] in June 1172 survives from [[Geoffrey of Vigeois]]:

{{bquote|{{lang|la|Tempore illo Rex Henricus senior filio Richardo ex voluntate matris Aquitanorum tradidit Ducatum. Post haec apud S. Hilarium Pictavis Dominica post Pentecostem, juxta consuetudinem, in Abbatis sedem elevatur: sed a Bertramno Burdegalensi et Joanne Pictavensi Praesulibus lancea ei cum vexilla praebetur.... Procedenti tempore Richardus Lemovicas veniens, in urbe cum processione suscipitur, annulo S. Valeriae decoratur, novusque Dux ab omnibus proclamatus.}}}}-->