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Title: Montecassino, Archivio Abbaziale, Reg. 3 (Martin et al., Registrum Petri Diaconi, II, n. 208, p. 636)
Document number: 1205
Author(s): Antonio Tagliente (file creation on 2021-05-07); Antonio Tagliente (last change on 2022-04-12)
Record source: Critical edition
Document type: Marquis’/ducal/princely diploma
Document tradition: Copy
Fiscal property: Uncertain

Date: 943 January

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NNos Atenulfusprinceps divina ordinante providentia Langobardorum gentis princepsprinceps, per rogumintercessory Baldoinintercessory, abbots venerabili abbatiabbots karissimo patri nostro, concessimus in aecclesiachurches sancti Benedictichurches, cells/hermitages, que est cellacells/hermitages in locoother administrative unit Caudi,monasteries, cells/hermitages, monks hos homines libertiswork and workers, freedman: Leonemfreedman, Bernardumfreedman, Lupumfreedman, Carrarumfreedman, Iohannemfreedman, Silbumfreedman, Iohannem, Stefanumfreedman, commorantes in pertinentiaconfinia de predicta caella. In ea videlicet ratione illos in predicta cella iam dictos homines concessimus, ut nec comes, nec gastaldeus, nec iudex, nec ullus nostri principatus subiciens illos tangere aut molestare in aliquo presumat, aut in angariam, aut in hoste, aut in quocumque servitio publicooperae, work and workers illos minare audeat, et nec censum, nec dationes, nec pensiones, nec ullum servitium ab eis existere querat, sed ab omni exactione publicapublic exactions securi et quieti maneant amodo et deinceps perpetuis temporibus, et quanti homines extraneinatio qui non sunt de nostris finibusfines in pertinentia de predicta caella venerint ad habitandum, similiter sub ista defensionetuitio/bannum/mundeburdium. Ex iussione predicte potestati scripsi ego Ursusprofessional writer, clergy/religious persons clericusclergy/religious persons et scribaprofessional writer in anno decimo principatus eius, mense Ianuario, indictione prima. Maielpotusabbots abbasabbots XX(s) VI(s). Hic recepit a predicto principe preceptummarquis’/ducal/princely diploma in hunc modum continentem.

Keywords: abbots, cells/hermitages, churches, clergy/religious persons, confinia, fines, freedman, intercessory, marquis’/ducal/princely diploma, natio, operae, other administrative unit, princeps, professional writer, public exactions, tuitio/bannum/mundeburdium, work and workers.

Editions and document summaries: Voigt 1902, n. 139.

Bibliography: Bloch 1986, pp. 863, 1347.

Commentary

Il principe Atenolfo III, a richiesta di Baldovino abate di Montecassino, offre alla cella di S. Benedetto di Caudi sette liberti, esenti da ogni servizio pubblico, come i forestieri che si insedieranno sulle terre della cella. Riassunto in CMC, I, 58.