Henry III, King of the Romans, donates properties in the March of Carniola and the County of Margrave Eberhard to the Church of Aquileia.
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.
a) add. sup. l. et ex regis corr. T. b) perducta em. Bresslau et Kehr. c) seq. 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. g) seq. exilasis canc. T. h) extibus et subsignavit T; man. recentior in marg. sin. in equitibus corr. ; exitibus ed. Bresslau et Kehr. i) sic T: pro reditibus, sicut em. Bresslau et Kehr. j) sic T: pro commutandi, sicut em. Bresslau et Kehr. k) subtusque em. Bresslau et Kehr. l) ex Pordonis corr. T; Berdonis em. Bresslau et Kehr. m) sic T; archicapellani em. Bresslau et Kehr. n) sic T; Henrici em. Bresslau et Kehr.
“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.
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).
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