Mercy rope

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The grace rope was in the reign of Kleve a rope , which in homage of a new prince was ejected. Throwing the rope of grace has been part of the legal tradition since the late Middle Ages. “At the same time one saw - in accordance with an old local custom introduced at similar festivities - the great castle gate open; a member of the Klevian estates stepped out (the son of Baron von Quadt); he was on horseback and had the end of a long rope in his hand, the so-called mercy rope. Several criminals who had been sentenced to corporal punishment immediately seized the rope of grace and followed him, rope in hand, through the main streets. When they returned to the castle, they received letters of passage for themselves with the condition that they await the grace granted to them in the event that they were found to be eligible for pardon after investigating the offenses against which they were charged . ”The regional custom was maintained until the French Revolution.

literature

  • Didaskalia: Leaves for Mind, Mind and Publicity, edited by JLHeller; Seventeenth year July - December 1839 Frankfurt am Main [1]
  • Gustav von Velsen. The city of Cleve, its immediate and distant neighborhood, then and now, with special consideration of the ancient; next to the mineral spring, in the Thiergarten. A guide book for locals and for strangers. Cleve and Leipzig. Publisher of Fr. Char. 1846 [2]
  • Reformation history of the city of Wesel up to the consolidation of its Reformed creed by the Wesel Synod
    of Albrecht Wolters, pastor of Bonn
    Bonn, with Albert Marcus. 1868. [3]
  • Franz Matenaar: The rope of grace, an old legal custom
    Kleve calendar for the Klever Land - on the year 1978, Kleve 1977, p. 190

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Courier du bas-Rhin of November 11, 1786, quoted in: Friedrich Gorissen, Geschichte der Stadt Kleve. Boss-Verlag, Kleve am Niederrhein 1977 (p. 10f)