Diedenhofen capitular

The Diedenhofen capitular is a double capitular (royal order) from Charlemagne , which was issued towards the end of 805 in Diedenhofen (today Thionville / France), where the emperor stayed at least since December 12th and over the Christmas period. In the second of these capitularies, the cities of Magdeburg and Forchheim are mentioned for the first time.

Essentially, the Diedenhof Capitular is a kind of “arms embargo” of the Franks against the Slavs . In the document, the named cities were forbidden to trade arms with the Slavs. These are along the former Slavic border: Bardowick , "Skaesla", Magdeburg, Erfurt , Hallstadt (near Bamberg ), Forchheim, Premberg (today a district of Teublitz near Schwandorf ), Regensburg and Lorch .

Historians disagree as to which place is meant by the aforementioned "Skaesla". The list shows a clear order from north to south. Accordingly, “Skaesla” should be between Bardowick and Magdeburg. The Hitzacker (Elbe) , located at the mouth of the Jeetzel and the Elbe , is more likely than the Scheeßel , which is a long way from the Slavic border, or even further, to claim to be the Skaesla that was discovered near the Meetschow castle wall Scheßlitz near Bamberg to the south .

The original Diedenhof chapter is no longer preserved, only copies from the High Middle Ages .

Edition

• Alfred Boretius (ed.): Duplex capitulare missorum in Theodonis villa datum . In: MGH Capitularia regni Francorum 1, Hannover 1883, pp. 120–126 No. 43–44 ( digitized version )

literature

• Adriaan Verhulst : Diedenhofen capitular . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 3, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7608-8903-4 , Sp. 998 f.
• Karl Brunner :  Diedenhofen capitular. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 5, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1984, ISBN 3-11-009635-8 , pp. 407-408.
• Michael Glatthaar : The three versions of the double capital of Diedenhofen / Thionville (805/806): draft - decree - revision. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Volume 69 (2013) pp. 443–478 ( digitized version )
• Matthias Hardt : Between Bardowick and Erfurt - trade and traffic at the northern border control points of the Diedenhofen capitular of Charlemagne from 805. In: On the way to the medieval city in Thuringia (= contributions to the early history and the Middle Ages of East Thuringia. Volume 5). Edited by Hans-Jürgen Beier and Peter Sachsenbacher. Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2014, pp. 71–82.
• Wolfgang Hübener : The places of the Diedenhofen Capitular from 805 in an archaeological perspective. In: Annual Journal for Central German Prehistory Volume 72, 1989, pp. 251–266.

Web links

• Diedenhofen * * apitular * .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii . (to get an optimized search result, truncation is necessary)
• The Diedenhofen capitular and Forchheim
• Premberg and the capitular