Centenarius

The Centenarius was a rank or official title in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages .

In the Roman Empire , the title of Centenarius showed a salary of 100,000 sesterces from around Hadrian on. This applied to some imperial officials such as procurators and members of the Consilium , the imperial privy council. The name can be found until the 5th century AD.

Among the Teutons , the Centenarius was then a judge , for example in the Germanic Lex Salica (6th century) written in Latin . Its judicial district was the Centena . The earlier assumption that it was an old Germanic institution was refuted in 1949 by H. Dannenberger. The survival of the term in the Central Rhine, Hessian and East Franconian Centers (cf. Zentherr , Zentgericht ) is also controversial.

See also

• Worship
• Huntare

literature

• Heinrich Brunner : German legal history. Reprint of the 2nd edition published in 1928. OO 2006.
• Dietrich Claude : Centenarius II. Early Middle Ages . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 1620 f.
• G. Gudian: Centena. In: Concise dictionary on German legal history . Volume I: Aachen - House Search. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1971, Col. 603-606.
• Gerhard Wirth : Centenarius I. Late antiquity . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 1620.

Web links

• centenarius .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Kubitschek : Centenarii 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 1924 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} G. Gudian: Centena. In: Concise dictionary on German legal history . Volume I: Aachen - House Search. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1971, Col. 603-606.