The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 99 pages of information about The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century.

The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 99 pages of information about The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century.

[59:] It is difficult to find an English word which intelligently renders the various names for these freemen in their judicial capacity, used by the different nations, such as arimanni, rachinburgi, boni homines, etc.  Most English writers make use of the German word schoeppen.  I have taken the rendering “judicators” from Edward Cathcart, the translator of the first volume of Savigny’s Geschichte des Roemischen Rechts im Mittelalter.

[60:] Liutprandi:  Leg. 25, Lib.  IV., 7.

[61:] Rachis:  Leg.  No. 11.

[62:] Savigny:  Geschichte, etc., Vol.  I., p. 233, trans.

[63:] Preserved in the Archives of Farfa.  Published by:  Mabillon:  Annales Ord.  S. Benedicti, Tom.  II., p. 154. Muratori:  Script.  Rer.  Ital., Tom.  II., Pars II., p. 341.

[64:] We have confirmation of this from a document of the early part of the ninth century, which says:  “De Vicariis et Centenariis qui magis propter cupiditatem quam propter justitiam faciendam saepissime placita tenent, et exinde populum minus affligunt, ita teneatur ... ut videlicet in anno tria solummodo generalia placita observent et nullos eos amplius placita observare compellat.”  From Worms Capitulary of Lewis the Debonnair, a. 829, c. 5.  Also compare:  Capit.  V., anni 819, Art. 14.  Capit., Lib.  IV., c. 57. (Baluzii, 616 infr., 788 supr.) Caroli Magni, Leg.  Long. 69. (Canciani I., 157.)

[65:] Brunetti:  Cod.  Diplom.  Toscan.  Doc.  No. 18.

[66:] Bouquet:  Rerum Ghillicarum et Francicarum Scriptores.

[67:] Baluzii:  Capit.  Reg.  Franc. a. 789, Tom.  V., p. 746.

[68:] Capit.  I., Art. 13, anni 813. v. Baluzii:  Capit.  Reg.  Franc., Tom.  I., p. 509.

[69:] Muratori:  Ant.  Ital.  Diss.  X., Vol.  I., Pars I., p. 115.

[70:] Caroli Magni:  Leg.  Long.  No. 92.

[71:] Sismondi:  Rep.  Ital. du Moyen Age, Vol.  I., p. 268.

[72:] Capit.  II., anni 819, Art. 2. v. Baluzii:  Capit.  Reg.  Franc., Tom.  I., p. 605.

[73:] Loc. cit. sup.

[74:] Caroli Magni:  Leg.  Long.  No. 116.

[75:] Caroli Magni:  Cap.  Minora, anni 803, c. 20.

[76:] “Adjutores Comitum, qui meliores, et veraciores inveniri possunt.” Lothar I.:  Leg.  No. 49. v. Muratori:  Ant.  Ital.  Diss.  X., Vol.  I., Parte I., p. 112.

[77:] Caroli Magni:  Capit.  I., anni 809, Art. 22. v. Baluzii:  Capit.  Reg.  Franc.  I., 466 infr.

[78:] Lothar I.:  Capit. anni 873, Art. 9. v. Baluzii:  Capit.  Reg.  Franc.  Tom.  II., p. 232.  Leg.  No. 48. v. Muratori:  Diss.  X., Vol.  I., P. I., p. 112.

[79:] Muratori:  Ant.  Ital.  Diss.  LXXVII., Tom.  III., Parte II., p. 189.

[80:] Vid. Tommasio:  Historia sanese, Lib.  IV.; Ughelli:  Italia Sacra, Tom.  III., for this privilege.

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