Decimator
The decimator or tithe was a medieval official or agent of monasteries, parishes, landlords or tithe tenants whose task it was to collect the tithe . For storage of tithing large were tithe barns built, and usually the tithe requirement had their duties there or at Zehnthof deliver himself.
Occasionally, however, the term was also used for the recipients of the tithe, e.g. B. the "Decimatores majores", d. H. the recipients of the “Big Tithing” and the “Decimatores Minores”, the beneficiaries of the “Little Tithing”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the parish St. Martinus Richterich, Part III, p. 20 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A. and F. Altmann: Does the magistrate of Gleiwitz have a legal obligation to take over the patronage of the second Catholic church to be built there? In: German magazine for church law. III. Volume, Mohr-Siebeck, Freiburg / Leipzig 1893, p. 45.
