纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 053洛泰尔一世水晶雕刻（1）（在线收听）

053：EPISODE 53 - The Lothair Crystal 洛泰尔一世水晶雕刻

The Lothair Crystal, depicting Susannah and the Elders (855 - 869 AD), probably from Germany

Royal divorces generally mean political trouble. The marital problems of Henry VIII plunged England into decades of religious strife and, as we all know, when Edward VIII wanted to marry a divorced woman there was a constitutional crisis that cost him his throne. The object in this programme is associated with a king whose protracted attempts to divorce his queen were, on the contrary, intended to safeguard the kingdom. His failure to do so probably killed him and it certainly led to the termination not only of his line but of his kingdom as well. The object, an engraved rock crystal, tells us his name. Written in Latin, it reads: "Lothair, King of the Franks, caused me to be made".

王室成员的离婚通常会引发政治纷争。亨利八世的婚姻问题曾让英格兰数十年陷于宗教冲突I爱德华八世想迎娶一位离过婚的女士，导致宪制危机，并付出退位的代价。本节的这件物品也与一位国王的婚姻有关，他以延续王国为名处心积虑地想和妻子离婚，最终失败。这件事很可能最终要了他的命，他的血脉与王国也都因此终结。这件水晶雕刻上的拉丁文铭文中有他的名字：“奉法兰克国王洛泰尔之命制作。”