Bay 07 - The Legends of Charlemagne

Index to panels:
(Click captions below to open detailed view in this window or click the relevant panel on the diagrams to the left to open in a new window).

01 - Signature panel (A furrier selling a robe)

The (apocryphal) Jerusalem Crusade
03 - The Emperor dreams that Charlemagne will conquer Jerusalem
02 - Charlemagne receives an emissary from the Emperor
05 - Charlemagne defeating the Saracens in the Holy Land
04 - Constantine welcoming the victorious Charlemagne
06 - Charlemagne tells the Emperor he wants no reward except relics
07 - Charlemagne presenting his relics to the Church

The Spanish Crusades (from the Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin)
08 - Charlmagne quizzing his wise men about the Milky Way
09 - St James appears to Charlemagne in a dream
10 - The army setting out on the Spanish Crusade
11 - Charlemagne praying before the assault on Pamplona
12 - The taking of a city from the Moors
13 - Charlemagne overseeing the construction of a church

14 - A battle between the Crusaders and the Moors
15 - The Miracle of the Flowering Lances
16 - The fight between Roland and the Saracen King Marsile
17 - Roland killing the giant, Ferracutus, with a blow to his navel
18 - Ganelon persuades Charlemagne to return home
19 - Roland tries to break his sword and sounds the oliphant
20 - Baudouin is unable to find water for the injured Roland
21 - Baudouin carries the news of Roland's death to Charlemagne

The Mass of St Giles
22 - An angel hands the priest a scroll with the King's confession
23 and 24 - Censing Angels

For details on this window, in addition to all the usual sources, see Clark Maines' essay "The Charlemagne Window at Chartres Cathedral: New Considerations on Text and Image", in Speculum, Vol.52, No.4 (Oct., 1977), pp.801-23.