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This peace was to last until the end of
Salomon's life. Charles rewarded his now faithful vassal with a gift of regalia in 868, including a golden, jewelled crown. It is also likely that Salomon's two-year-old son Wigo was baptised on this occasion and that Charles acted as godfather to him, thus
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Vikings quite so readily, however. In 865 and 866, the Vikings and Bretons ravaged the vicinity of Le Mans and Robert was killed in the
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Salomon was called king, not because it was true in fact, but because he wore a gold coronet and purple robes by a grant of the
Emperor Charles, and for this reason was designated by this name.
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Salomon and Charles linked by "blood" as co-fathers. Though Salomon thereafter began to call himself king, he was not king in any official capacity, as an eleventh-century historian at
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Charles the Bald, though he had not made war on the king himself since 860. In that year he hired the services of a band of
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923:Alan (III)
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