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The monastic economy in the principality of Salerno during the eleventh and twelfth centuries1

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G. A. Loud
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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 71 , November 2003 , pp. 141 - 179
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This study is a revised and extended version of a paper, ‘Le vicende economiche dei monasteri nel principato di Salerno nel XII secolo’, given at a conference on the medieval principality held at the Villa Guariglia at Raito, near Salerno, in June 1999, and (in English) at All Souls College, Oxford, in October 2001. I am grateful to Professor Paolo Delogu for the original invitation to speak, and to Rees Davies and Roger Highfield for helpful suggestions on the latter occasion.

The following abbreviations have been used throughout: Cava = Archivio della badia di Santissima Trinità di Cava. Cod. Dipl. Cavensis = MorcaldiM.(eds), Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis, vols i–viii (Milan/Naples, 1873–1893) and LeoneS. and VitoloG. (eds), Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis, vols ix–x (Badia di Cava, 1984, 1990). Cod. Dipl. Verginiano = TropeanoP.M. (ed.), Codice Diplomatico Verginiano, 11 vols (Montevergine, 1977–1998). Ménager, Recueil = MénagerL.-R. (ed.). Recueil des actes des dues normands d'Italie (1046–1127), i. Les premiers dues (1046–1087) (Bari, 1981) (vol. ii has never been published). Minima Cavensia = LeoneS. and VitoloG., Minima Cavensia. Studi in margine al IX volume del Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis (Salerno, 1983).

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13 Volpini, ‘Diplomi sconosciuti’ (above, n. 4), 512–17 no. 6; Cod. Dipl. Cavensis ix. 328–22 no. 103. The earliest reference to the church of Saint Nicholas comes in Cod. Dipl. Cavensis viii. 202–4 no. 1342.

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19 Martin, J.-M. (ed.), Les actes de l'Abbaye de Cava concernant le Gargano (1086–1370) (Codice Diplomatico Pugliese xxxii) (Bari, 1994), 146–9Google Scholar no. 52, at p. 147.

20 Volpini, ‘Diplomi sconosciuti’ (above, n. 4), 503–6 no. 2.

21 Cod. Dipl. Cavensis v. 93–5 no. 764.

22 Cod. Dipl. Cavensis viii. 77–81 no. 1275. N.B. the anachronistic reference to demania ac feudalia. Carlone, C., Falsificazioni e falsari cavensi e verginiani del secolo XIII (Altavilla Silentina, 1984), 9Google Scholar.

23 Cod. Dipl. Cavensis viii. 95–7 no. 1284, ix. 308–11 no. 99; Loud, ‘The abbey of Cava’ (above, n. 16), 147.

24 Ménager, Recueil, 105–6 no. 33, 136–41 no. 43.

25 Ménager, Recueil, 191–7 no. 56, 203–12 no. 59; Heinemann, L. von, Normannische Herzogs- und Königsurkunden aus Unteritalien und Sizilien (Tübingen, 1899), 13–16Google Scholar no. 7. Carlone, Falsificazioni (above, n. 22), 31,41, suggests that the 1087 charter was confected early in 1286 and the last document ‘after 1285’.

26 Enzensberger (ed.), Guillelmi I (above, n. 17), 3–6 no. †1, confected before May 1286.

27 Ménager, Recueil, 178–80 no. 51. This diploma was later produced in evidence in a court case resulting from interference by a royal official in these harbour rights at Vietri in 1182, Kehr, K.A., Die Urkunden der Normannische-sizilischen Könige (Innsbruck, 1902), 448–52 no. 26, at pp. 450–1Google Scholar.

28 Heinemann, Urkunden (above, n. 25), 17–19 nos. 8–9.

29 Heinemann, Urkunden (above, n. 25), 30–1 no. 18. An earlier charter to this effect, Guillaume, P., Essai historique sur l'abbaye de Cava (Cava dei Tirreni, 1877), pp. xvii–xviiiGoogle Scholar no. E(vi) is also a forgery.

30 Cava, Arm. Mag. E.35.

31 Cava, Arm. Mag. G.6. Although several of the documents in the Cava archive attributed to the counts of the Principate are probably thirteenth-century forgeries (see Carlone, Falsificazioni (above, n. 22), 23–6), this was not one of them, for it was produced in evidence during a court case in April 1171, Cava, Arca xxxiii.100.

32 For example, Cava, , Arca xxi. 1Google Scholar (October 1118): ‘iniquo est st contra sanctorum patrum istituta est laici terra ecclesie sub potestate tenere vel dominar e vel aliquot census accipere. hoc peccatum evadere curavi’. Cf. Cava, Arm. Mag. E.41 (May 1115), F.6 (December 1117). Vitolo, G., Insediamenti cavensi in Puglia (Galatina, 1984), 12–14Google Scholar, gives other examples.

33 Examples include Saint Nicholas, Capaccio, in May 1096: ‘ipsa ecclesia cum omnibus ad eam pertinentibus est domno Gregorio’, Cava, , Arca xvi.59Google Scholar; and the monastery of Saint Priscus at Nocera, where the vicecomes of its owner, Jordan, the younger brother of the prince of Capua, arranged a lease of its property in January 1118, Cava, , Arca xxi.61Google Scholar.

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35 Ruggiero, Principi, nobiltà e Chiesa (above, n. 7), 81–95.

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37 For example, Cava, Arm. Mag. D.14 (April 1097), D.45 (August 1104), D.49 (1090 × 1106), E.10 (May 1110), E. 23 (September 1112).

38 Cava, Arm. Mag. E.27–8, edited in part by Ebner, P., Chiesa, baroni e popolo nel Cilento medievale (Rome, 1982), i.412Google Scholar.

39 Cava, , Arca xxiv.41Google Scholar: ‘ipse bagelardus ut dictum est obtulit … cum omnibus censilibus eisdem germanis et predicto matheo quolibet modo pertinentibus ex hac parte suprascripti fluvii sileris, cum uxoribus et liberis et rebus eorundem censilium’. Cf., for example, Cava, Arm. Mag. G.24 (March 1137), G.28 (September 1137), G.35 (December 1141). G.36 (June 1142).

40 Cava, , Arca xxiv. 102Google Scholar: ‘ipse dominus abbas per hanc cartulam vestivit et confirmavit … de suprascripto feudo … quod sunt villanos [sic] censiles cum uxoribus et liberis eorum et cum omnibus pertinentiis et terras cum arboribus et vineis et omnia ibidem pertinentibus’.

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42 Cod. Dipl. Cavensis vi.278 no. 1049.

43 For example, Cod. Dipl. Cavensis, ix.191–5 no. 59 (July 1068)Google Scholar, 354–6 no. 119 (January 1072), 375–6 no. 128 (June 1072). There is a good discussion of this issue by Ramseyer, Ecclesiastical Power (above, n. 7), 598–602.

44 Cava, , Arca xvi.75Google Scholar: ‘Ea ratione ut amod o et semper ipsi vir et uxor et eorum heredes sub dominio et defensione custodum et partium suprascripte ecclesie permaneant, quemammodum liberi homines secundum consuetudinem istius terre Caputaquensis’.

45 Cava, , Arca xx.97Google Scholar; edited by Ebner, P., Economia e società nel Cilento medievale (Rome, 1979), i.243–4Google Scholar.

46 Cava, Arca xxiii.102. On the equitatura, see Cuozzo, E., ‘Quei Maladetti Normanni’. Cavalieri e organizzazione militare nel Mezzogiorno normanno (Naples, 1989), 88–92Google Scholar.

47 For example, a man was granted a feudum at Nocera by Archbishop Romuald II in 1170 in return for making and repairing barrels for the archiepiscopal wine cellars at Nocer a and Salerno, Salerno, Archivio diocesano, Mensa Archiepiscopalis, Arca ii no. 78.

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51 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano viii.316–18 no. 750.

52 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano ix. 146–8 no. 143.

53 ‘Memorantes. quam idem Rogerius iure iurando corporaliter prestito. promisit suprascripto monasterio et ipsi domino abbati legaliter et fideliter servire. et negotio ab ipso domino abbate et monasterio sibi commissa absque fraude administrare. et ipsum monasterium et suprascriptum dominum abbatem in nullo defraudare vel defraudari secundum suam conscientiam’, Cava, , Arca xxxv.43Google Scholar.

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54 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano viii.319–21 no. 791, at p. 320.

55 Cava, Arm. Mag. G.50: ‘Et sicut ipsi roggerio placuit … tradidit ipsi domno [sic] abbati pro parte ipsius monasterii sancte et individue trinitatis ipsum iohannem filium ipsius gentecore cum omnibus rebus et possessionibus ipsi iohanne pertinentibus. Ea ratione ut ipse iohannes semper sit iuris et dicionis partium ipsius monasterii’. Ministeriales: Cod. Dipl. Cavensis ix. 142–5 no. 46 (March 1068), at p. 143; Cod. Dipl. Cavensis x.130–2 no. 47 (September 1074); Gallo, A. (ed.), Codice diplomatico normanno di Aversa (Naples, 1927), 403–407Google Scholar no. 56 (August 1098); Cava, , Arca xviii. 106 (August 1109)Google Scholar.

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58 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano viii.324–7 no. 792, ix.27–9 no. 808, 321–3 no. 896.

59 Cava, , Arca xl.57Google Scholar.

60 Cava, , Arca xxxiv.32Google Scholar: ‘Testificati sunt etiam ipsi testes suprascriptum Marinum mariam nepotem suam ex vigilia filia sua que fuerat uxor ionathe in omnibus rebus suis stabilis et mobilibus heredem instruisse … Tali q(uam)dem condition(em) ut predictus ionathas ipsam Mariam filiam suam partibus monasteri i cavensis cuiusdam scilicet monasterii suprascriptus marinus censilis extiterat’. A summary of this document is given in Carlone, C., Documenti per la storia di Eboli i (799–1264) (Salerno, 1998), 128 no. 260Google Scholar.

61 Cava, , Arca xl.46Google Scholar.

62 Actes de Cava concernant le Gargano (above, n. 19), 143–4 no. 50.

63 Cava, , Arca xxv.79Google Scholar.

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65 Ménager, Recueil, 105–8 no. 33, at p. 107.

66 For example, in June 1108 the abbot's consent was needed for a man giving land at Metiliano to his son-in-law, Cava, , Arca xviii.78Google Scholar, and in June 1194 the sale of a house at Vietri needed the consent of the abbey's prepositus, Cava, , Arca xliii.116Google Scholar.

67 Cava, , Arca xxiv.12Google Scholar.

68 Ebner, Economia e società in Cilento (above, n. 45), i.338–9 (from Cava, Arm. Mag. G.18).

69 For example, Cava, , Arca xxxi.26 (May 1163)Google Scholar, from the abbey's dependency of Saint George, Nola, just across the border in the principality of Capua.

70 Salerno, Archivio diocesano, Mens a Archiepiscopalis, Arca ii no. 75.

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72 Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Archivio Boncompagni-Ludovisi, prot. 270 no. 11.

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76 For this seasonal activity, Cherubini, G., ‘Il contadino’, in Musca, G. (ed.), Condizione umana e ruoli sociali nel Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo. Atti delle none giornate normanno-sveve, Bari 1989 (Bari, 1991), 145Google Scholar.

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78 Nuove pergamene di S. Giorgio di Salerno (above, n. 53), 28–31 no. 13, at p. 30.

79 For example, Cod. Dipl. Cavensis v.35–8 no. 729, 43–4 no. 833 (both 1021), 71–3 no. 751 (1023), vi. 45–6 no. 900 (1035), all from Nocera; Cod. Dipl. Cavensis vi.74–6 no. 919 (1037), Roccapiemonte; Cod. Dipl. Cavensis vi.258–9 no. 1037 (1044), Angri.

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82 Cava, , Arca xxxix.13Google Scholar. For the term startia, Martin, J.-M., ‘Le travail agricole: rythmes, corvées, outillage’, in Musca, G. (ed.), Terra e uomini nel Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo. Atti delle settime giornate normanno-sveve, Bari 1985 (Bari, 1987), 147–8Google Scholar.

83 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano vii. 130–3 no. 634.

84 Cava, , Arca xxxix.21Google Scholar.

85 Cava, , Arca xliii.62Google Scholar: ‘Qui dicebant se censum ipsum dare non debere. eo quod dicebant ipsum dominum abbatem eis donar e et per eius licentiam sacramentum inde fecisse quod dominus abbas nulla ratione cognoscebat’. Cf. Arca xliv.68: the accused swore to his innocence, but was convicted ‘quia verba contumeliosa dicta fuerint in platea publica. pluribus viris ibi existentibus et audientibus’.

86 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano vi.242–4 no. 564 (1173), one ‘work’ a week, is the exception; but cf. Cod. Dipl. Verginiano viii.133–5 no. 738 (April 1184)Google Scholar, 142–7 nos. 741–2 (June 1184), 169–72 no. 749 (November 1184). In May 1200 the lord of Taurasi remitted an hereditary labour service of one day's work a week in return for a payment of an ounce of gold, Cod. Dipl. Verginiano xi.319–22 no. 1091.

87 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano vi.266–9 no. 570.

88 Cherubini, ‘Il contadino’ (above, n. 76), 138.

89 Cava, , Arca xiii.118 (March 1082)Google Scholar; Arca xiv.16, 17 (both June 1084)Google Scholar; Arca xxii.111 (October 1130)Google Scholar; Cod. Dipl. Cavensis x.245–9 no. 101.

90 Cava, , Arca xix.104Google Scholar.

91 Cava, , Arca xv.30 (December 1091), 65 (December 1092), 19 (March 1093)Google Scholar; Arca xxx.71 (January 1162)Google Scholar; Arca xliv.67 (February 1198)Google Scholar; Capaccio, , Arca xliii.84 (August 1193)Google Scholar.

92 Cava, , Arca xxxix.51Google Scholar.

93 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano vi.217–20 no. 559 (Sarno); Cod. Dipl. Verginiano ix.307–10 no. 892 (Nocera), though we may note an earlier lease from Nocera, by a lay landlord in 1142, for half the wine crop and a terraticum of one-seventh, Cava, , Arca xxv.40Google Scholar.

94 For example, Cod. Dipl. Verginiano iii.399–402 no. 300 (May 1151)Google Scholar; iv.3–6 no. 301 (July 1151), 62–4 no. 317 (1153 × 1162), 122–5 no. 333 (April 1155), 357–63 nos. 396–7 (September 1160), all a terraticum of one-fifth; but cf. Cod. Dipl. Verginiano iii. 113–20 nos. 228–9 (February 1136)Google Scholar; iv.16–19 no. 304 (November 1151), 306–9 no. 382 (July 1159); v.265–7 no. 475 (September 1167); x.55–7 no. 916 (January 1194), all a terraticum of one-tenth. In a lease of March 1175 Montevergine required a terraticum of one-fifth of the grain and one-quarter of the cabbages for nine years, while the lessee planted and propagated vines, and thereafter (when the vines were productive) half the wine and one-tenth terraticum, Cod. Dipl. Verginiano vi.315–18 no. 584.

95 For example, Cod. Dipl. Verginiano iv.207–9 no. 355 (May 1157)Google Scholar; v.29–31 no. 409 (December 1161), both one-sixth of cereals; Cod. Dipl. Verginiano v.25–8 no. 408 (also December 1161)Google Scholar, one-quarter sown crops and half the olive oil; Cod. Dipl. Verginiano iv.59–61 no. 316 (September 1153)Google Scholar, one-tenth of cereals and one-quarter of wine; and Cod. Dipl. Verginiano iv. 164–7 no. 344 (March 1156)Google Scholar, half of wine and fruit, one-fifth of cereals and one-third of garden vegetables.

96 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano viii.283–6 no. 781.

97 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano ix.33–6 no. 810, at p. 34, cf. the ‘terraticum sicut de vicina loca’ in Cod. Dipl. Verginiano ix.59–60 no. 818, also from Avellino (July 1189)Google Scholar.

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108 Cava, , Arca xxxii.27Google Scholar. The first evidence for him as justiciar comes from a court case at Eboli in January 1172, Arca xxxiv.15. See especially Jamison, E.M., ‘The Norman administration of Apulia and Capua, more especially under Roger II and William I, 1127–1166’, Papers of the British School at Rome 6 (1913), 366CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For the family, Loud, G.A., The Age of Robert Guiscard. Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest (Harlow, 2000), 283, 308Google Scholar.

109 He acknowledged that he owed the abbey 20 ounces in September 1173, Cava, Arca xxxiv.76. In May 1183 Lucas received 65 ounces for the sale of a mill on the river Irno and lands at Tusciano and Montecorvino, Arca xxxix.25; and in August 1189 he received 170 ounces for the sale of two large pieces of cultivated land near the river Tusciano, Arca xliii.35, 37.

110 Kehr, Urkunden (above, n. 27), 448–52 no. 26, at p. 449. It is clear from the phraseology that Lucas was not presiding at this court.

111 Cava, , Arca xxxii.96Google Scholar; Arca xxxiv.22. For him, Jamison, E.M. (ed.), Catalogus Baronum (Fonti per la storia d'Itatia) (Rome, 1972), 84–5Google Scholar, arts 455–60. Godfrey was still a minor when the Catalogue was revised c. 1167–8.

112 Whether Byzantine coins were at this date actually available in the principality must be very doubtful; it is possible, therefore, that the payment to the duke was actually in tari, and the scifatus was simply a unit of account. For these coins, Grierson, P., ‘Nummi scyphati. The story of a misunderstanding’, Numismatic Chronicle, ser. VII 11 (1971), 253–60Google Scholar.

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114 For the latter, Cava, , Arca xxiii.102Google Scholar (see above, at n. 46). The problematic document is Arm. Mag. G.26, in which the abbey paid 1,000 tarì to Count Nicholas of the Principate. See below, n. 149.

115 Cava, Arm. Mag. G..28. See also Arm. Mag. G.27, and Arca xxiv.31. For the siege, D'Angelo, E. (ed.), Falco of Benevento, Chronicon Beneventanum (Florence, 1998), 186–8Google Scholar.

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119 Cava, , Arca xxxiv.84Google Scholar.

120 Cava, , Arca xx.63Google Scholar.

121 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano iii.143–6 no. 235 (January 1137)Google Scholar; v. 140–3 no. 440 (April 1164), 254–7 no. 472 (June 1167), 324–7 no. 493 (January 1169).

122 Cod. Dipl. Verginiano xi.255–61 nos. 1071–2 (December 1199)Google Scholar, 269–71 no. 1075 (January 1200).

123 This was the lease of a house at Montefusco in August 1192, which had an entry fine of 61 tarì of Salerno; the other was for a house at Mercogliano in September, which had an entry fine of 40 tarì, Cod. Dipl. Verginiano ix.283–6 no. 885, 298–300 no. 889.

124 The palmentaticum, for the use of a wine press, was usually a small payment in kind, often of a hen, as in Cava, , Arca xv.24 (December 1090)Google Scholar, 32 (June 1091), 79 (March 1093); Arca xxx. 11 (April 1158)Google Scholar; Arca xxxvi.48 (January 1178)Google Scholar. Cava sometimes purchased wine presses, for example, Arca xxvi.49 (May 1146)Google Scholar; Arca xxix.99 (May 1157)Google Scholar, in this case from Lucas Guarna, the later justiciar.

125 Arca xxiii.46.

126 For example, an entry fine of 500 tarì, payable in three instalments, in February 1179 (but here provision had to be made for (elderly?) sitting tenants with a life interest), Cava, , Arca xxxvi.58Google Scholar. An entry fine of two ounces (that is 60 tari) in February 1198, Arca xliv.67.

127 For example, Cava, , Arca xxxvi.76 (May 1179)Google Scholar, an annual render of a half-measure (starium); Arca xl.96 (January 1186)Google Scholar, a render of 4 tarì per annum; Martini, Feudalita e monachesimo cavense in Puglia (above, n. 104), 72–3 no. 59 (December 1188), an annual render of half an ounce.

128 ‘triginta et sex unci(a)e auri tarenorum monete Sicili(a)e ex parte domini Mathei illustris regalis cancellari et dilecti familiaris assignast(a)e fuerant pro emenda congrua possessione de inter hac civitate ad opus predicti conventus’, Cava, , Arca xliii.78Google Scholar.

129 For example, Cava, , Arca xxxiv.82 (November 1173)Google Scholar, wooded and waste land near Salerno leased for nineteen years for an annual rent of 15 solidi, and exenia of 30 eggs three times a year; C. Carucci (ed.), Codice diplomatico Salernitano del secolo XIII, 3 vols (Subiaco, 1931–46), i.95–6 no. 34 (February 1212), land with vines, fruit trees and a wine press leased by the priory of Saint Maria de Dompno for nineteen years for an annual rent of half an ounce of tari of Sicily.

130 For example, Cava, , Arca xl. 106 (February 1187)Google Scholar, land, a house and a half-share in a wine press at Balnearia leased for half the wine, fruit and chestnuts, terraticum and exenia according to local custom, two ‘works’ a month, and 2½ tari every Christmas; cf. Codice diplomatico Salernitano (above, n. 129), i.84–7 nos. 27–8 (August and October 1209)Google Scholar.

131 Vitolo, G., ‘Il registro di Balsamo, decimo abbate di Cava (1208–1232)’, Benedictina 21 (1974), 79–129Google Scholar, especially p. 89. But while Vitolo suggested that the first reference to the abbot' capella came only in November 1190, Cava, , Arca xlii.83Google Scholar, in fact it was already in existence in 1135; Arca xxiii.102.

132 Cava, , Arca xxiv.63Google Scholar.

133 Among the most interesting transactions here were leases of houses in Salerno to Jews, for example, Cava, , Arca xxxii.56, 59 (both February 1167)Google Scholar, and Arca xxxiii.37 (August 1169)Google Scholar. However, the total annual rent from these three leases was only 48 tarì, and rents from its urban property were generally at this fairly low level.

134 Thus in April 1169 the abbey paid 60 ounces for land immediately outside Salerno, in October 1170 24 ounces for a house with a shop near the old palace, in January 1174 18 ounces for a house near the monastery of Saint Benedict, in September 1174 13 ounces for a two-storey house just outside the town, and in April 1177 56 ounces for a house, land, wine press and oven, also just outside Salerno: Cava, , Arca xxxiii.19, 65Google Scholar; xxxiv.48, 106; xxxv.105.

135 In September 1247 it was suggested that Cava had enjoyed these ‘from the time of King William onwards’, Huillard-Breholles, J.L.A. (ed), Historia Diplomatica Friderici Secundi, 6 vols in 12 (Paris, 1852–1861)Google Scholar, vi (2), 571–2.

136 Guillaume, Essai historique sur l'abbaye de Cava (above, n. 29), p. xxxix, appendix N. Cf. G.A. Loud. ‘Norman Italy and the Holy Land’, in Kedar, B.Z. (ed.), The Horns of Hattin. Proceedings of the Second Conference for the Society of the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, 1987 (Jerusalem, 1992), 52–3Google Scholar (reprinted in Loud, Conquerors and Churchmen (above, n. 16)).

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140 A payment to Guaimar, lord of Giffoni, for his extensive property in Cilento.

141 This payment, for the castellum of Sant'Adiutore, is not recorded in the relevant charter, Heinemann, Urkunden (above, n. 25), 19–20 no. 10, but cf. the Annales Cavenses, ad. an. 1110 (above, n. 107).

142 A purchase by the dependency of Saint Sophia, Salerno, which was given to Cava in August 1100 (for which above, n. 10).

143 Payment in return for the confirmation by Roger of San Severino of various property and rights in Cilento, , Ebner, , Chiesa, baroni e popolo nel Cilento (above, n. 38), i.413Google Scholar.

147 The money fief granted to Matthew Bulturus (above, n. 46).

148 A payment to Roger, lord of Caggiano, in return for rights of pasture and gleaning for the men of Saint Maria of Pertosa, see above nn. 68 and 106.

149 The manuscript is very faded here, and the coin involved is impossible to decipher even under ultraviolet light.

150 A payment to Count Nicholas of the Principate for a mill and other property near Eboli, Carlone, , Documenti per la storia di Eboli (above, n. 60), i.69Google Scholar no. 142, who suggested that this is a forgery.

151 Purchase by the cell of Saint Angelo de Crypta, Nocera.

152 Renewed in March 1143, Area xxv.63.

153 A payment to William, lord of Gesualdo, to confirm Cava in possession of some property that it already held, edited by Ughelli, F., Italia Sacra (second ed. by Colletti, N., Venice, 1717–1721), viii.290Google Scholar.

154 A payment that was part of a lease, by Saint Maria de Domno, Salerno, in return for which the tenants would build a house and two wine presses for the church.

155 Buying out a rival claim.

156 A purchase by Santa Maria de Domno, Salerno.

157 Buying out a rival claim to property belonging to the cell of Saint Leonard, Avellino. For the calculations in this paper it has been assumed that these aurei are simply tarì.

158 Purchase by the Cava dependency of Saint Massimo, Salerno.

159 Purchase by the Cava dependency of Saint Massimo, Salerno.

160 Payment by the Cava dependency of Saint Angelo de Crypta to buy out a legal claim.

161 The actual purchase price was 150 tarì, but the vendor remitted 50 tari as a gift for his soul.

162 This transaction was actually an exchange of land, but the abbey made a cash payment as well.

163 Not to come into force immediately.

164 A rent offered by donors consigning their property to Montevergine.

165 The rent offered to Montevergine in a will.