Karlmann (Hausmeier)

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Karl Mann (* before 714, possibly 706/708, † 17 July 754 in Vienne ) was from 741/2 to 747 a Frankish house Meier from the sex of the Carolingian . He was the eldest son of the housekeeper Karl Martell and his first wife Chrotrud .

Life

Brotherly quarrel

Before Karl Martell's death, the Frankish empire was divided between the two sons from his first marriage, Karlmann and Pippin the Younger . Karlmann was supposed to be a caretaker in Australia , Alemannia and Thuringia , and Pippin was to be a caretaker in Neustria , Burgundy and Provence . However, shortly before Karl Martell's death, the two brothers had to share their inheritance with Grifo, their half-brother. The half-brother Grifo was locked in a monastery by Karlmann at the end of 741. Since their power apparently did not seem to be consolidated, in 743 Karlmann again set a Merovingian king, Childeric III. , in order to give her office as a caretaker royal legitimation. There seems to have been no agreement between the two brothers, but when Karlmann resigned in 747 and retired to the monastery of San Silvestro on Monte Soracte and then to Monte Cassino , at least rumors seem to have existed that this withdrawal was not entirely voluntary was. Pippin explicitly states in contemporary sources that it was solely his brother's decision. Pippin thus took over the reign of the entire Franconian Empire, circumventing the inheritance rights of Karlmann's children.

Karlmann had a son, Drogo, mentioned in 748 and 753, as well as other sons who, according to the sources, were transferred to the monastery in 753 before the death of their father on the orders of their uncle Pippin. In 753 Grifo, the half-brother of Pippin and Karlmann, was also killed by Pippin's border guards.

Church politics

Karlmann achieved lasting significance for history through his church policy. For strongly religious and less political reasons, he seems to have been interested in proselytizing the pagan peoples and in reforming the confusing church structures of that time. Unlike his father and brother, who tolerated the missionary activities of Anglo-Saxon monks, as they were able to support the Carolingian position of power through the Christianization of neighboring peoples, but also at any time by installing and removing bishops and abbots in the structures of the Frankish church, which was largely independent of Rome intervened or used church property to reward his followers, Karlmann sought an agreement with important church leaders to streamline the clerical organization. The missionary and Archbishop Winfried Bonifatius , legitimized by the Pope and tolerated more than supported by Karl Martell , was able to hold a first reform synod of the Frankish bishops in 742 , the Concilium Germanicum convened by Karlmann . Some of the resolutions of this synod still exist today, such as the prohibition on the clergy to carry arms and hunt, or their obligation to give an annual account of their conduct in life and office to the bishop. As a result, the influence of the local Franconian church should slowly but steadily decline in favor of the centralized papal organization. The so-called Karlmann donation also stands for his collaboration with the clergy ; at the time he handed over the noble court Eiloha on the Fulda, including the surrounding area within a radius of 4,000 paces, in 744 to Boniface to found a monastery. On March 12, 744, on behalf of Boniface, Sturmi founded the later very important Benedictine monastery in Fulda .

Bloody integration of Alemannia

The character of Karlmann is hardly known due to the lack of a suitable number of contemporary sources. But he was able to tough measures, such as the criminal court of Cannstatt shows 746, in which he, the leadership of the Alemanni was largely executed as a traitor and so the 500 by Theodoric enforced part of autonomy of the reduced Alamannic Duchy under Frankish supremacy abruptly ended. Thereupon he set up Gau counties in Alemannia, which he preferably occupied with Frankish followers or loyal Alemannic nobles as counts . The Franconian-Alamannic " Mark " established by Clovis I after his victories over the Alamanni , which led along Seltzbach , Murg and Oos over the heights of the northern Black Forest to Engelberg , along the Glems to Asperg and via Lemberg and Hagberg to the east thus obsolete.

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predecessor Office successor
Karl Martell Hausmeier of Austria, Alemannia and Thuringia
742–747 		Pippin the Younger
personal data
SURNAME Karlmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franconian caretaker from the Carolingian family
DATE OF BIRTH at 714
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 754
Place of death Vienne