Roland the Farters
Roland the Farters or Baldwin the Farters was an art farting in medieval England.
Life
He owned the fiefdom of Hemingstone Manor in Suffolk . He was obliged to perform “unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum” (“a jump, a whistle and a fart”) at the court of King Henry II at every Christmas festival .
Roland is listed in the Liber feodorum ("Book of Taxes"). The position reads (in 1250):
" Seriantia que quondam fuit Rollandi le Pettour in Hemingeston 'in comitatu Suff', pro qua debuit facere the Natali Domini singulis annis coram domino rege unum saltum et sifflettum et unum bumbulum, ...
Translation: The Serjeanty, the formerly of Rolland le Pettour was in Hemingstone in the county of Suffolk, for which he had to jump, whistle and fart before the king and lord every year on the day of the lord's birth ... "
Before that, the fiefdom is described as follows (for the year 1244):
" Edmundus de Breinton 'tenet Hemelingeston' cum pertineciis, ... et est ista seriancia faciendi unum saltum, siffletum, et pettum .
Translation: Edmundus de Breinton 'owns Hemelingeston' with all the accessories, ... and this serjeanty has to jump, whistle and fart. "
The process is mostly quoted - now under the name Baldwinus le Pettour - from Camden's description of Britain in the increased edition, which appeared in print in 1607 in Latin and in 1610 in English translation:
" Hemingston in qua tenuit terras Baldwinus Le Pettour (notato mihi nomen) per Seriantiam , loquor ex antiquo libello, pro qua debuit facere die natali Domini singulis annis coram Domino rege Angliae, unum saltum, unum suffletum, & unum bumbulum , vel ut alibi legitur , per saltum, sufflum & pettum , .i. si intelligo, ut saltaret, buccas cum sonitu inflaret, & ventris crepitum ederet. "
" Hemingston, in which Baldwin Le Pettour (brand his name well) held certaine lands by Serjeanty (the words I have out of an old booke) for which on Christmas day ever yeere before our soveraigne Lord the King of England he should perform one saltus , one suffletus, and one bumbulus, or, as we read elsewhere, his tenour was per saltum, sufflum, et pettum, that is, if I understand these tearmes aright, that he should daunce, puffe up his cheekes marking therewith a sound, and besides let a crack downeward . "
" Hemingston, for which Baldwinus le Pettour (remember this name for me) held several Gütter per Seriantiam (I am speaking from an old book), in front of which he presented on Christmas Day unum saltum, unum suffletum and unum to the Lords of the Kings in England To make bumbulum, or as read elsewhere, per saltum, sufflum and pettum, that is, as I understand it, that he should jump, inflate his cheeks with a sound, and let a wind blow. "
literature
- Robert Bartlett : England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-822741-8 .
- Richard Beadle: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theater. Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-45916-8 .
- Valerie Allen: On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages. Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-23493-5 ( book review ).
supporting documents
- ^ A b Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte et al .: The Book of Fees, Commonly Called Testa de Nevill : London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1923. Part 2, AD 1242-1293 ( Memento of the original of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ William Camden: Britannia , lat., London 1607, p. 337
- ^ William Camden: Britannia , engl. Translation by Philemon Holland, London 1610, copy
- ^ Johann Samuel Publication: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 3rd Section, O – Z, 19th part, Leipzig 1844, p. 426
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roland the Farters |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baldwin the farther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Art fart and court jester |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11th century or 12th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th century or 13th century |