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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2013
In a previous article I referred to the documents given below, to establish the abeyance of the office of master constable and master justiciar of Apulia et Terra Laboris following Henry VI's conquest of the Sicilian kingdom in 1194, and to prove that Count Berard of Lesina had been entirely successful in switching his allegiance from the royal to the imperial side. I then undertook to print the full texts, and I am most grateful to the British School at Rome for giving me the opportunity of doing it.
1 ‘An administrative document from Apulia,’ in Studies in Italian Medieval History presented to Miss E. M. Jamison (Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. xxiv, 1956), p. 102, ffGoogle Scholar.
2 Mercogliano, province of Avellino.
3 S. Angelo a Scala, province of Avellino.
4 Written ‘Fegulie,’ and the ‘I’ has an abbrev. sign.
5 PBSR, art. cit., p. 102.
6 Loreto province of Avellino.
7 The reading seems to be clear.
8 The word nonagesimo is missing in the text.
9 The day of the month ought to be before 25 December, when Henry's third regnal year for Sicily began.
10 In transcribing and interpreting this document and the next I have received invaluable assistance from Miss E. M. Jamison and Professor Zazo.
11 Son of Thomas de Fenuculo, Catalogus baronum, ed Fimiani, G., Commentariolus de subfeudis ex iure longobardico et neapolitano …, Naples, 1787Google Scholar, and forthcoming publication by the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, ed. E. M. Jamison, § 982. Fenuculo is Finocchio on the Calore, province of Benevento. The ruins of its castle are visible from the railway after passing Vitulano heading towards Naples, Meomartini, v. A., I comuni della provinda di Benevento, Benevento, 1907, p. 222Google Scholar; and v. E. M. Jamison, Cat. Bar. 981.* It was held in baroniam. Frederick II, 1223 July (printed Winkelmann, E., Acta imperii inedita saeculi XIII et XIV, Innsbruck, 1885, no. 257Google Scholar) shows that the barony too was granted to S. Sofia by Henry VI as part of the compensation for losses sustained in his service.
12 Abbot William, Bartholmew's predecessor, was with the emperor during the siege of Naples in 1191, Clementi, v. D., ‘Calendar of the diplomas of the Hohenstaufen emperor Henry VI concerning the kingdom of Sicily’ (in Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, XXXV, Tübingen, 1955), nos. 8, 13. 18Google Scholar.
13 Daughter of Gentilis de Caniano, v. Archivio Storico Provinciale di Benevento, Fondo S. Sofia, vol. 10, no. 28.
14 Cagnano, province of Foggia, and Santo Chirico now a group of houses c. 2 km. from the junction of the Torrente Celone with the Torrente Candelaro. Both places are near Rignano. For Cagnano and Adelisia's father Gentilis de Caniano, Jamison, v. E. M., ‘La camera del logotheta Riccardo di Taranto’ … in Atti del II Congresso Storico Pugliese e del Congresso Internationale di Studi Salentini, Bari, 1952, pp. 7(20), 23Google Scholar.
15 A document, dated S. Quirico 1196 December, Archivio Storico Provinciale di Benevento, Fondo S. Sofia, vol. 10, no. 28, records an agreement between Adelisia and Abbot Bartholomew, to which Hugh in his capacity of his wife's munduald gave his consent. Under this agreement Adelisia gave her patrimonium, consisting of the above two castles, to S. Sofia on the same terms as Hugh had given his; the census for them to be comprised in the sum agreed with Hugh. In return, in the event of her husband's death taking place before hers, she obtained the right to keep both his patrimonium and hers, before these lands passed to their heirs or devolved to the monastery, always provided the census was duly paid.
16 To pay a census v. infra: curtiagio vel solutione census.
17 The chapel of Madonna di Cristo, Rignano, province of Foggia.
18 Supra, p. 171, n. 9.
19 Supra, p. 172, n. 11.
19a For an explanation of the technical meaning of libere v. D. Clementi, ‘Sulle concessioni de terre dell’ imperatore Enrico VI nel Regno di Sicilia' in Atti dell II° Congresso Storico della Società di Storia Patria per la Puglia, 1959, forthcoming publication
20 Clementi, Calendar, no. 130.
21 ‘Das Gesetz Kaiser Friederich's II. ‘De resignandis privilegiis,’ Sitzungsberichte der k. preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Berlin, 1900, p. 136.
22 Cf. text of charter, which at this point is badly damaged.
23 The double brackets correspond to a tear on the right-hand side of the document, where the notary had a margin of 1 cm., so the measurements are given less this margin; ‘Ego’ in Jonathan's hand takes c. ½ cm. The words supplied for these gaps are therefore a matter of mere guesswork. The single brackets indicate words where the reading was uncertain because the ink was faint.
24 v. supra, p. 172, nn. 13, 14.
25 Caprara and Torrepalazzo, 3½ km. from Benevento; v. S. Borgia, commenting on the gift of both these places to the Augustinian canons of St. Andrew's, Benevento, by William, II in 1182, Memorie istoriche della pontificia città di Benevento, Rome, 1769, vol. 2, p. 241Google Scholar.
26 Cf. Frederick II, 1223 July (printed E. Winkelmann, Acta imperii no. 257, p. 235) for a parallel adjustment of jurisdiction.
26a Archivio Storico Prov. di Benevento, Fondo S. Sofia vol. 10, no. 28 gives John's titles as: dictus Sancti Agatheri, subdiaconus Sancte Beneventane Ecclesie et Fenuculi archipresbiter.
27 As no oath is taken, the most probable sense is that the agreement will not be binding, so nichil and non debeo are the likely readings.
28 The omission of Henry VI's regnal year for Sicily is unusual.
29 The details for the boundary in 1197 come from the inquest recorded in document no. IV and those for 1848 have been taken from a plan, still in official use (scale 1:30,000), made for the Commune of Spinazzola by Domenico Scaranyella, perito demaniale. The boundary between the Communes of Spinazzola and Gravina, as shown on Scaranyella's plan, apparently divides the twelfth century fief into two approximately equal halves.
30 Robert de Venusio's name can be traced in this form as royal justiciar for Terra di Bari in February of 1189 and 1192, Jamison, v. E. M., ‘The Norman administration of Apulia and Capua,’ Papers of the British School at Rome, VI, 1913, p. 346Google Scholar, and on 18 October 1196, v. Codice diplomatico Brindisino, ed. G. M. Monti, no. 33. The version of the document in the Biblioteca De Gemmis, however, gives the justiciar's name, on the three occasions on which it is mentioned, as Robertus de Vicariis de Venusio, and so does Discorsi Postumi del signor Carlo de Lellis di alcune poche nobili famiglie, con l'annotazioni in esse e supplimento … del Domenico Conforto, Napoli, 1701, p. 194, quoting ‘una autentica e publica scrittura che si conserva nell'Archivio di San Giacomo de’ PP Certosini dell'isola di Capri: in Archivio Carthusiae S. lacobi di Capro in Stipo V sign 488, precisely the same source as Tutini appears to have been using v. infra, p. 182. As it is easier to suppose the deliberate insertion of the name de Vicariis, rather than that Tutini should have overlooked it on three occasions, or deliberately omitted it, his version of the document has been followed in the printed text and the variants noted below.
31 John de Fraxineto can be traced as justiciar for Terra di Bari in December 1196, v. Codice diplomatico normanno di Aversa, ed. Gallo, A., in Documenti per la storia dell'Italia meridionale 2, Naples, 1926, no. 157Google Scholar, and again in March 1204, v. Il chartularium del monastero di S. Benedetto di Conversano, ed. D. Morea, 1, no. 149.
page 177 note a literas.
page 177 note b episcopi.
32 PBSR, xxiv, 1956, p. 102Google Scholar.
33 The ruins of the castrum can be seen on a hill roughly half way between Spinazzola and Gravina. In Frederick II's statute for the repair of the royal castles it figures merely as domus Guaranionis, Sthamer, v. E., Die Verwaltung der Kastelle im Könighreich Sizilien, Leipiz, 1914, p. 105Google Scholar. A deperditum of Henry VI suggests that the emperor had first granted castrum Guaranionis to the hospital at Barletta in January of 1197, v. Clementi, Calendar, no. 96. By 1199, however, it appears to have been in the hands of Count Roger of Andria's heir, Robert de Calagio, who at this date also held his father's county of Andria; but c. 1209 it was once again handed over to the knights of St. John, this time by William de Say, Count of Gravina, v. Ms. Brancacciano I F 5, ff. 2, 18.
page 178 note a Diligio.
page 178 note b ospitalis.
34 The priory of knights of St. John, Barletta, had been founded and built by April 1179, v. Le Roulx, J. Delaville, Cartulaire général de l'ordre des hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem, Paris, 1894, pp. CXXXI, 382Google Scholar.
35 During William II's reign Count Roger had been master constable and master justiciar for Apulia and Terra di Lavoro and, on behalf of Henry VI and Constance, he led the resistance to King Tancred's acquisition of the Sicilian crown, v. Ryccardus de Sancto Germano, Chronica, a. 1190. The grant of his castrum to the knights of St. John could, therefore, have been made in the first place by King Tancred, for Henry's privileges do not mention those of his predecessors even when sanctioning the retention of a gift made by the usurper, v. Clementi, Calendar, nos. 55, 101. On the other hand, a privilege of Henry VI to these same knights, 1194 December 2 Palermo, shows that the hospital had suffered serious losses shortly after King William's death, and as Barletta certainly sided with King Tancred it seems probable that the knights had been consistently imperialists, v. Clementi, Calendar, no. 29.
page 178 note c Vuillemus.
page 178 note d licterarum.
page 178 note e Robertus de Vicariis de Venusio.
page 178 note f Diligio.
page 178 note g assignatis.
page 178 note h Vuillemis.
page 178 note i vigesimo.
36 Conrad was at this date based on Brindisi preparing for the expedition to the Holy Land, which set sail from Apulia at the end of August 1197, v. Toeche, T., Heinrich VI, (Jahrbücher der deutschen Geschichte, Leipzig, 1867), p. 461Google Scholar.
page 178 note j Leopardo de venerabili.
page 178 note k camere.
page 178 note l Graviri.
page 178 note m Scangia.
page 178 note n Iaram.
page 178 note o Matthaeus.
page 178 note p de omitted.
page 179 note a Citeolus.
page 179 note b Ierus.
page 179 note c Bartholomaeus.
page 179 note d da.
page 179 note e additional word Ciscopi.
page 179 note f Guarranione.
page 179 note g Guarranione.
page 179 note h Guarranione.
page 179 note i Guarranione.
page 179 note j Guarranionis.
page 179 note k Spinacioli.
page 179 note l Diligio.
page 179 note m ab.
37 ?Specchio d' acqua, ‘pond.’
page 179 note n Spinaciolo.
page 179 note o ab.
page 179 note p Spinaciolii.
page 179 note q Spinaciolii.
page 179 note r Turris.
page 179 note s Mardarolus.
page 179 note t regiret.
page 179 note u settentrione.
page 179 note v settentrione.
page 179 note w alium.
page 179 note x settentrionem.
page 179 note y fontis S.M.
38 A deep ditch, which after rain acts as a water course; the word is still in use locally.
39 Apparently correct modus, a boundary mark.
40 The ridges of a murgia, i.e. a down.
page 180 note a Guaranianum.
41 versant.
page 180 note b usque omitted.
page 180 note c deinde omitted.
page 180 note d per primo annotate.
page 180 note e Unfridus.
page 180 note f Riccardi.
page 180 note g scnescallus.
page 180 note h Petrucca.
page 180 note i Scagias.
page 180 note j Matthaeus.
page 180 note k Molfitta.
page 180 note l dicunt.
page 180 note m respondebat.
page 180 note n affidatis.
page 180 note o curatolus.
page 180 note p literas.
page 180 note q predittis.
page 180 note r affidatensis.
page 180 note s dicunt.
page 180 note t ecclesia S.M.
page 180 note u et.
page 180 note v Nine words omitted here.
page 181 note a preditto.
page 181 note b Diligio.
page 181 note c futurum.
page 181 note d Diligio.
page 181 note e suprascriptorum justitiariorum.
page 181 note f Robertus de Vicariis de Venusio.
page 181 note g iustitiarius.
page 181 note h subscripsi omitted.
page 181 note j justitiarius.
page 181 note k Bartholomaei.
42 A second example of the use of this formula by Samar, when witnessing, can be found in Codice diplomatieo Barese, iii (Bari, 1899Google Scholar: Le pergamene della cattedrale di Terlixzi, ed. F. Carabellese), p. 129.
page 181 note k intesa.
page 181 note l senescali.
page 181 note m subscripsi omitted.
page 181 note n Unfridi.
page 181 note o de Costa.
page 181 note P Aurea.
page 181 note q subscripsi omitted.
page 181 note r subscripsi omitted.
page 182 note a filius.
page 182 note b filius.