Gasindi

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Gasindi also Gasindii , Kisindi , Gasindo , Gisindo or Gisindi ( Old High German for " servants ") were personal followers of the king in the Lombards - and later in the Franconian Empire , from whom the holders of court offices ( gasindi regis ) and the leading officials, the nobility , emerged .

In Gasindi there is the Old High German sendan or are for “way”; accordingly, it originally meant companions or travelers. Gasindi were apparently always free . If they were armed on royal orders, they could not be charged with what had been committed.

The Gasindi as a follower of the Lombards changed more and more to a vassalage under the Carolingians , characterized by a structure of protection, service, maintenance and loyalty obligations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabriele von Olberg: The terms for social classes, strata and groups in the Leges Barbarorum. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-11-012218-9 , p. 118.
  2. ↑ Wilfried Menghin: The Longobards: Archeology and History , K. Theiss, 1985, p. 189 ( online ).
  3. ^ Karl Bosl: The history of society in Italy in the Middle Ages , A. Hiersemann, 1982, p. 49 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Ernst Gamilschegg: Romania germanica: Language and settlement history of the Germanic peoples on the soil of the old Roman Empire , Volume 11, Part 2, W. de Gruyter & co., 1935, p. 184 ( online ).
  5. ^ Georg Steinhausen, Walter Goetz: Arch. Kulturgesch, Volume 58, A. Duncker, 1976, p. 273 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Gotthardt Frühsorge (Ed.): Servants in the 18th Century (= Studies for the 18th Century , Volume 12). Meiner, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7873-0915-2 , p. 111.
  7. ↑ Peter Herde (Ed.), Walther Kienast: The Franconian Vasallity. From the house fights to Ludwig the child and Karl the simple-minded. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-465-01847-8 , p. 92.