1040_EM

Era
Vol. 2: A 804 usque ad 1077
Date
January 8, 1040
Place
Regestum

Henry III, King of the Romans, donates properties in the March of Carniola and the County of Margrave Eberhard to the Church of Aquileia.

Source
T = Venice, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Pacta e aggregati, Codex Trevisaneus, fol. 168r (149 according to older pagination); late 15th-/early 16th-century simple copy ex quodam instrumento pergameno autentico.
C = Udine, Archivio di Stato di Udine, Patriarcato di Aquileia, ms. 1: Thesauri claritas, fol. 22r; early 15th-century copy of a late 14th-century inventory in which this charter is recorded as a regestum; this regestum, brief as it is, has a correct passage of the dispositio that is erroneously copied in T – “in Circhinitz” instead of “id est villas circumcirca” in T.
Previous Editions
Harry Bresslau and Paul Fridolin Kehr (eds.), Heinrici III. diplomata / Die Urkunden Heinrichs III., Monumenta Germaniae historica, Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae 5 (Berlin 1931), doc. 19, pp. 25–26; critical edition based on CT and a later copy of C recorded in 18th century by Giusto Fontanini, deriving from T.
Giuseppe Bianchi, Thesaurus ecclesiae Aquileiensis (Udine 1847), p. 19; based on C.
FIM Edition
Collated edition based on CT; Fontanini’s copy is ignored as stemming from T and suffering from the copyist’s emendations. Bresslau and Kehr’s emendations are reported in the critical apparatus.
Transcription

In nomine sancte et individue Trinitatis.

Henricus divina favente clementia rexa.

Divinę maiestatis dispositio, quae post excessum divę memorię regum et imperatorum sollicitudinis scilicet regalis potentię non ignara misericorditer respexit, monet et instigat ecclesiis Dei in Regno nostro circumquaque constructis tanto vigilantius prudentię nostrę curam impendere, quanto constat in nostri ordinis promotione celestis gratiae beneficia indulgentius nos percepisse. Ex hoc enim lucri potissimum pręmium apud conditorem omnium Deum procul dubio promereri confidimus, si venerabilia loca oportuno tempore ad meliorem fuerint statum Deo iuvante nostraque potentia cooperante productab.

Quapropter noverint omnes Christi nostrique fideles, tam futuri quam presentes, qualiter nos, pro piissimi genitoris nostric felicis memorię Conradi Romanorum imperatoris augusti nostrique anime remedio simulque ob fidele servitium Popponis patriarchę Aquileiensi ecclesię, cui idem pręsidet, in honorem scilicet sanctorum Hermachorę et Fortunati constructę, quinquaginta regales mansosd in villa Circhinitze cum cęteris villis inibi adiacentibus ad explendos tot prescriptos regales mansos in Marchia Creina in Comitatu Eberardi marchionis sitosf cum omni pertinentia in proprium tradidimus cumg ecclesiis, areis, edificiis, agris, terris cultis et incultis, pratis, pascuis, campis, silvis, venationibus, aquis aquarumve decursibus, mollis, mollendinis, piscationibus, viis et inviis, ex[i]tibush et peditibusi, quesitis et inquirendis, seu cum omni utilitate quae ullo modo inde poterit provenire.

Ea videlicet ratione, ut prescriptus Poppo patriarcha suique successores de pretitulatis L regalibus mansis liberam deinceps habeant potestatem tenendi, commitendij vel quicquid sibi ad utilitatem pręlibatę ecclesię placuerit inde faciendi.

Et ut haec nostrę traditionis auctoritas stabilis et inconvulsa per futura annorum curricula permaneat, hoc preceptum inde conscriptum subtusk manu propria confirmatum sigilli nostri iussimus impressione insigniri.

Signum domni Henrici tertii (SM) regis invictissimi.

Theodericus cancellarius vice Bordonisl arcicapellanim recognovit.

Data VI idus ianuarii, indictione 8a, anno Dominice incarnationis M quadragesimo, anno autem domni Enricin tertii ordinationis XII, regni vero Io.

Actum Augustę.

Feliciter, amen.

Apparato critico

aadd. sup. l. et ex regis corr. T.  b) perducta em. Bresslau et Kehr.  cseq. fedelis canc. T.  d) subsignavit T.  e) in villa Circhinitz] in Circhinitz C; id est in villas circumcirca T; in villa Circhinitz ed. Bresslau et Kehr.  f) in Marchia—marchionis sitos] subsignavit T.  gseq. exilasis canc. T.  h) extibus et subsignavit T; man. recentior in marg. sin. in equitibus corr. ; exitibus ed. Bresslau et Kehr.  isic T: pro reditibus, sicut em. Bresslau et Kehr.  jsic T: pro commutandi, sicut em. Bresslau et Kehr.  k) subtusque em. Bresslau et Kehr.  lex Pordonis corr. T; Berdonis em. Bresslau et Kehr.  msic T; archicapellani em. Bresslau et Kehr.  nsic T; Henrici em. Bresslau et Kehr.

Medieval Recollections

“In [scrineo] quinto decimo: Privilegia imperialia et regalia [om.], et de mansis quinquaginta datis in Circhinitz et certis villis circumiacentibus […]” – Thesuari claritas, ed. Giuseppe Bianchi (Udine 1847), p. 19.

Selected Bibliography
Günther Flohrschütz, Der Adel des Ebersberger Raumes im Hochmittelalter (Munich 1989), p. 58.
Giuseppe Albertoni, “Inter duos fluvios: Il praedium Ueldes e le origini della signoria territoriale dei vescovi di Bressanone a Bled, nella marca Creina,” in Reti Medievali 7: Distinguere, separare, condividere: Confini nelle campagne dell’Italia medievale, ed. Paola Guglielmotti (2006): pp. 47–62.
Roman Deutinger, “Von den Liutpoldingern zu den Welfen,” in Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte, vol. 1: Das alte Bayern, ed. Alois Schmid (Munich 2017), p. 300.
Josip Banić, “Marchionatus Istrie origo mythosque Wodalrici marchionis: (Re)interpreting the Genesis of the March of Istria and the Socio-Genealogical Background of its First Margraves (c. 1060 – c. 1100),” in Mens acris in corpore commodo: Festschrift in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Ivan Matejčić, ed. Marijan Bradanović and Miljenko Jurković (Zagreb 2021), pp. 192, 204–205.
Editor's Notes

Eberhard II of Sempt-Ebersberg is believed to have inherited the March of Carniola from his father Ulrich I. This Ulrich, though, never appeares in the primary sources as a margrave, only as a count (see the edition of the source here).

Eberhard had five siblings out of which three are known: brother Adalbero II, sister Judith and sister Wiliburga II who married Werihen, count of Friuli (see the source attesting to this here). Eberhard II married Richarda of Eppenstein, but had no surviving heirs when he died, somewhere between 1041 and 1044 (see the source attesting to this here). The next documented margrave of Carniola is Ulrich, in the year 1058 (see the edition of the source here). On all of this, and on a detailed rejection of Landi’s thesis (who argued that Eberhard II had surviving male heirs upon his death), see Josip Banić, cited above, pp. 192–199.

There is still debate in historiography whether Eberhard’s March of Carniola included the March of Savinja and the County of Istria as well, the “supermarch” that the next margrave of Carniola, Ulrich I of Weimar, would govern. True, Ulrich I Weimar is the first documented margrave of this supermarch, but since the majority of the wars against the Hungarians took place precisely during Eberhard II’s years, it could very well be that the original “supermarch” was constituted during Eberhard’s lifetime and that Ulrich I of Weimar simply inherited it (see Deutinger’s and Banić’s account cited above).

How to Cite
First citation: Josip Banić (ed.), Fontes Istrie medievalis, vol. 2: A 804 usque ad 1077, doc. 1040_EM, fontesistrie.eu/1040_EM (last access: date).
Subsequent citations: FIM, 2: doc. 1040_EM.
Facsimile
Image Source and Info

The publication of the facsimile of T (Venice, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Pacta e aggregati, Codex Trevisaneus, fol. 168r) is granted free of charge by Archivio di Stato di Venezia by way of the “simplified procedure” of publishing archival facsimiles (La circolare della Direzione generale archivi n. 39 del 29 settembre 2017: procedura semplificata: pubblicazioni online che perseguano finalità scientifiche o pedagogiche, non beneficino di inserzioni pubblicitarie o commerciali e non siano soggette ad accesso a pagamento).

The digital facsimile remains under the exclusive copyright of Archivio di Stato di Venezia.