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.[1]
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.[2] The Salzburg annals are also the only source for an assassination attempt on Carloman by the Bavarians in 878.[3]
Sources
Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991.
