[2] At his subsequent trial for treason, Charles reminded the assembled bishops how a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father ... and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor.
[5] Wenilo was also the recipient of the Epistola tractoria ad Wenilonem by Prudentius of Troyes, whom he knew from the court of Louis the Pious in the 830s.
[6] On 25 March 848, while celebrating Easter in Limoges, the magnates and prelates of the Kingdom of Aquitaine formally elected Charles the Bald as their king.
[8] The initiative in this ceremony perhaps came from Hincmar of Reims, who had been consecrated by Wenilo, and who composed several liturgies for coronations and anointings.
[11] Shortly after that,[d] Louis the German invaded Charles's kingdom and moved on Sens to "receive those Aquitainians, Neustrians and also Bretons who had pledged to come over to him".
[16] A published account of Charles's denunciation, A Proclamation against Wenilo, which appears to be heavily influenced by the ideology of Hincmar of Reims, has survived.
[18] Charles specifically credits the other bishops (and implicitly their "solaces") with helping him recover his position after Wenilo's treachery.
[19] Scholars agree that Wenilo is the historical basis for the character of the traitor Ganelon (Guenelon) in the late 11th-century Chanson de Roland.