Royal service

The royal service (lat. Servitium regis ) denotes the close connection between spiritual dignitaries (predominantly bishops and abbots ) and the kingship and the obligations arising from it.

Even in the Frankish , but especially the Ottonian-Salian imperial church of the German king was invested bishop or abbot and acting under the bishopric (or more precisely the rich legally obliged Bishopric ) or monastery (or Reichsprälatur ) is committed to services that the ruler were to be provided. The same was true in England, France and Spain.

These services fall under the concept of the servitium regis , the "royal service" and included: the prayer for the king and his family, lodging and food for the king and his entourage, trips by the abbot to royal court days , obligation of the diocese / monastery to serve the army .

literature

• Carlrichard Brühl : Fodrum, gistum servitium regis: Studies on the economic foundations of royalty in the Franconian Empire and in the Frankish successor states of Germany, France and Italy from the 6th to the middle of the 14th century. Cologne u. a. 1968.
• Caroline Göldel: Servitium regis and table goods directory. Investigation of the economic and constitutional history of German royalty in the 12th century. Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 3-7995-2416-9 .
• Wolfgang Metz : The servitium regis. To research the economic basis of the high medieval German royalty. Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3-534-07431-9 .