Knight tax
The knight's tax , also known as the knight's facility , was a tax levied from the High Middle Ages until well into modern times .
Original meaning
It was a levy that knights, or later the owners of feudal estates or manors , had to pay to their feudal lords or sovereigns instead of the military service that was previously to be performed personally. It is mentioned as early as 1317 in a Tyrolean registry book by Heinrich von Kärnten .
To calculate the tax for the individual goods, the number of horses was usually taken as a basis that the owner of the property would have had to provide on the basis of the army succession ; therefore it is also known as knight horse money.
Second meaning
Was a secondary meaning of the Knights control the a levy which a knight in four specific cases of his hearing could raise: if a son of the knighthood should be received if a son or daughter married when the knight from captivity ransomed be needed, or when he wanted to go on a crusade across the sea.
literature
- Knight tax . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 11 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-7400-1231-5 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Szaivert: A Tyrolean chancellery book of King Heinrich of Bohemia from the years 1315-1320. Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1951.
- ↑ a b Knight Tax . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 14: Reif – Saugeschacht , Eigenverlag, Altenburg 1862, p. 195 .
- ^ Society for Salzburg Regional Studies: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , 27, 1887, p. 248