Fodrum

Fodrum (from the Latin. Fodrum , feed ') refers to a particularly in the medieval North and Central Italy raised tax . Originally, outside of Italy, it was also the feed that had to be made available to passing officials to look after their horses. Under the Carolingians , the levy was used to care for the horses of the royal court .

In imperial Italy , the tax that the imperial nobility there had to pay the emperor was called fodrum. Initially, it was due only once for the coronation of the emperor and thus during the presence of the ruler in the country. Under Friedrich Barbarossa , the Fodrum was perceived as a shelf and a regular tax as part of its general stronger integration of Italy into the empire ; it was partly raised in the territories of the Papal States and there later also by the papacy. The fodrum regale temporarily became an important source of income for the “imperial administration” in “imperial Italy”, only to become an insignificant relic after the political changes in the 14th century.

literature

• Carlrichard Brühl : Article Fodrum , Concise Dictionary of German Legal History, Vol. II, Berlin 1971, Sp. 1146–1149 (with further literature)