Bedemund

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Bedemund (from mhd. Bede = delivery, beden = to ask and old German. Munt = protection, violence), also Bettemund , Bumede , Bustengeld , Breast Chicken or Frauenzins , Latin maritagium , was given to the liege lord for him in the northern regions of today's Germany Consent to the marriage of a serf called a marriage fee to be paid. Mostly the bedemund was to be paid by the bride and according to some court rights only when married to a person who did not belong to the same court, in the so-called unrelated marriage.

In Westphalia, in particular, a bedemund was not a marriage tax, but a fine for impregnating a serf out of wedlock , unless the child's father married the pregnant woman before the child was born. The "bondage order" in the Diocese of Osnabrück stated for example in cap. 16, § 1. 2. u. 3:

The so-called Bettemunds (Bedemund) right, the landlord exercises against the person who has impregnated his self-employed maid; according to old practice, the landlord has to come to terms with the landlord with a ton of butter or as best he can.
If, however, the same should be impregnated twice or more, the landlord can no longer demand a Bettemund, but from the perpetrator, because he has deteriorated his own authority even more, a cheap statisfaction.
But if the one who impregnated a self-employed maid with pregnancy would heyrate it before the child was born, he is not obliged to give the Bettemund.

literature

  • Article "Bedemund", in: German legal dictionary (dictionary of older German legal language), Vol. 1, Weimar 1914–32, pp. 1343 f.
  • Article "Munt", in: German legal dictionary (dictionary of older German legal language), Vol. 9, Weimar 1995, pp. 973 ff.
  • Friedrich Gottlieb Piper: Thoughts on Bedemuths and Bettemunds law in Westphalia , Halle 1761

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Gößwein: The Franconian State and Franconian Legislation (without year)
  2. ^ Braunschweigische Landschaft eV / AG Heimatpfleger: Bedemund Online-Lexikon
  3. ↑ A. Erler: Article "maritagium", in: Hand Wortbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte , Vol. 3, 1984, Sp. 279f.
  4. ^ Werner Wittich: Die Grundherrschaft in Nordwestdeutschland , Leipzig 1896, p. 259
  5. ↑ Johann Christian Palm: " Brief draft of the serfdom law in general and in particular how it is brought here in the Graffschaft Hoya and some other Westphalian provinces, along with a preliminary report on which rights and laws one actually has to comply with in the Graffschaft Hoya ", Hanover 1747, p. 29 f .: Cap. III. § 16