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ADDENDUM I

THE CHARTER
OF LOUIS THE PIOUS[194]

Aachen, 29 January A.D. 815

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD AND
OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
LOUIS, EMPEROR AUGUSTUS BY
ORDINATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE:

With respect to foundations dedicated to divine worship for
the love of God and His servants, wherever we have bestowed
appropriate tenures on such foundations we have believed that
our eternal reward would be meted to us at the seat of God. In
that light be it known to all our faithful supporters, both now
and hereafter, that the venerable man Adalhard, abbot of the
monastery of Corbie, which was erected in the region of Amiens
in honor of St. Peter and St. Stephen, brought to us the
immunity of our lord and father Charles, most pious Emperor of
pious memory, wherein we have found in writing how he and
his predecessors, the earlier kings of the Franks, had with divine
love and reverence for that holy place, always held the aforesaid
monastery under the most complete guardianship and protection
from harm. To substantiate that status, the aforesaid abbot
Adalhard asked us for the love of God and reverence for divine
worship likewise to add our authority to that pre-existent
authority. We freely acquiesce to his request and fully accord
in all respects, confirming the authority by this our command.
Wherefore we are issuing the order that no one of our loyal
subjects or anyone within the jurisdiction or any of our retainers
either present or future shall dare to enter into the churches or
lands or fields or other possessions of the aforesaid monastery
which at present it rightly and legally holds in possession in
whatever region or province under the authority of our imperium,
or any others which hereafter divine piety may determine to add
to the domain of that monastery, for the hearing of disputes or
levying of fines or tributes or the erection of buildings or the
exaction of bonds or the punishment of men, whether freemen
or serfs, living on its land, or collection of revenues or enforcing
illicit actions in ours or future ages; nor shall he in any way plot
to carry out any of the acts mentioned. And whatever the fisc
has been in a position to expect from the goods of the aforesaid
monastery, so much we turn over to the aforesaid monastery as
an everlasting income, so that in perpetuity it may be applied to
the augmentation of alms for the poor and stipends for the monks
serving God at that place, to the end that it may delight those
servants of God who are in a position to minister to Christ
therein, to pray that the mercy of the Lord be granted to us and
maintained on our behalf, and that of our wife and offspring,
and the stability of our whole empire. And that this authority
may, with the protection of the Lord, have power to continue
unaltered through ours and future ages, we have signed it with
our own hand and ordered it to be countersigned by the impress
of our seal.

Given the fourth kalends of February in the first year (by
the grace of Christ) of the imperium of lord Louis, most
supreme Augustus, Indiction VIII. Performed at the royal
palace at Aachen, auspiciously in the name of Christ, Amen.

[ILLUSTRATION]

DORESTAD, THE NETHERLANDS

CAROLINGIAN KEY [Holwerda, 1930, plate 22]

Excavated at the rich site that has also yielded numerous late Roman and
Merovingian artifacts, this 9th century bronze key is quite similar to Roman
counterparts.

ADDENDUM II

THE CONSTITUTION
OF ANSEGIS[195]
ABBOT OF FONTANELLA

A.D. 823-833

THIS IS A RECORD OF HOW THE VENERABLE
LORD ABBOT ANSEGIS ALLOTED CLOTHING,
SHOES AND SUBSISTENCE TO THE BROTHERS
STAYING IN THE MONASTERY OF
FONTANELLA. THE BROTHERS UNANIMOUSLY
AGREED TO ITS STIPULATIONS;
CONSEQUENTLY THEY COULD ALL
CONSTANTLY RENDER THEIR DEVOTIONS TO
GOD AND PERFORM HABITUAL DUTIES
EFFECTIVELY WITH ALL THEIR ESSENTIAL
NEEDS SUPPLIED AND ALL OCCASION FOR
RANCOR REMOVED. HE SET THESE TOOLS:

FROM THE REGION OF BOULOGNE AND THĖROUANNE:

Sixty complete vestments

Twenty white cloths from which twenty shirts could
be made

Tanned cowhides suitable for making five pairs of sandals

Twenty modii of beans

Twenty-one cheeses of seventy-five pounds each

One thousand eggs

Two hundred pounds of wax for the church itself, one
hundred for the brothers' needs

Two hundred pounds of tallow

FROM CORIALIS:

Twenty-four boots

Sixty bragal (? of flax?)

Two lengths of white cloth for making two tunics

Two towel-lengths from which ten work shirts could be
made

Five tanned cowhides

Ten modii of beans

Twenty modii of peas

Fifteen cheeses of seventy-five pounds each

Twenty-five modii of salt

In the month of September a thousand eggs

FROM THE GREGARIAN REGION:

. . . sixty . . . [lacunae]

FROM ERCHES [?] AND ESCHES [?]:

Three tillage allotments, ten ells in length, two in breadth

FROM APPILLY:

One tillage allotment of the same size

Three shaggy cloths for wiping the hands, each five ells
long and two wide

FROM GUEURES:

Three lengths of shirting for making serviettes,
thirteen ells long, three wide

FROM CLARIACUS:

One tillage allotment extending ten ells in length, three
in width

LIKEWISE FROM HIRTIUS:

One shirting of twelve ells, three ells wide, for wiping
the feet

FROM CAMPOMAE:

One towel-length

FROM RANCON THE LIKE

FROM FLEURY THE LIKE

FROM THE AFORESAID GREGARIA:

Thirty cheeses of seventy-five pounds each

Twelve lengths of felt for slippers, plus as much as is
needed for coffins (? lecta)

Sixty pigs fattened for suet and unguent, and as much
above that amount as may be necessary

FROM THE MINISTRY OF ROSONTIO:

Three modii of beans

Five modii of peas

For Christmas three fattened geese, twenty capons,
sixty pullets, two hundred and fifty eggs; then a like
amount at Easter

Three pounds of wax

Three sesters of honey

Then in the month of November five hundred eggs

Sixty cartloads of wood

LIKEWISE FROM PALDRIAC CROSS AND BLADRISIAGA:

Three modii of beans

Five modii of peas

At Christmas four fattened geese, twelve capons, sixty
pullets, two hundred and fifty eggs; and a like amount
at Easter

Three pounds of wax

Three sesters of honey

In the month of December five hundred eggs

Sixty cartloads of wood

FROM CAMPANAE [SEE ABOVE]:

Three modii of beans

Eight modii of peas

For Christmas four fattened geese, twelve capons,
seventy pullets, two hundred and fifty eggs; and a like
amount at Easter

One sester of honey

One pound of wax

In the month of January five hundred eggs

Sixty cartloads of wood

FROM SAǍNE AND BUBULOCAPTIVA:

Two modii of beans

Four modii of peas

For Christmas two fattened geese, ten capons, thirty
pullets, one hundred eggs; and a like amount at Easter

Two sesters of honey

Two pounds of wax

In the month of February five hundred eggs

Twelve cartloads of wood

FROM THE GARICIAGAS, BOURG-DUN AND GUEURES [SEE
ABOVE]:

Three modii of beans

Three modii of peas

At Christmas three fattened geese, twelve capons, forty
pullets, two hundred and fifty eggs; and a like amount
at Easter

One sester of honey

One pound of wax

And in the month of March five hundred eggs

Twelve cartloads of wood

FROM STONEBRIDGE AND VILLY:

Two towel-lengths

Five modii of beans

Fifteen modii of salt

At Christmas two fattened geese, twenty-six capons, one
hundred and five pullets, one hundred eggs; and a like
amount at Easter

One sester of honey

And in the month of April five hundred eggs

FROM ESCHES [SEE ABOVE]:

One modius of beans

One modius of peas

At Christmas one fattened goose, four capons, twenty-five
pullets, fifty eggs; and at Easter a like amount

One sester of honey

One pound of wax

And in the month of May five hundred eggs

Fifteen cartloads of wood

FROM ERCHES [SEE ABOVE]:

One modius of beans

Two modii of peas

At Christmas one fattened goose, four capons, twenty-five
pullets, fifty eggs; and at Easter a like amount

One sester of honey

One pound of wax

And in the month of June five hundred eggs

LIKEWISE FROM ROSONTIO [SEE ABOVE]:

In the month of August one hundred and sixty-five eggs

FROM THAT OF CROSS AND CAMPANIS [SEE ABOVE]:

One hundred and sixty-eight eggs

FROM RIVECOURT:

Forty-eight modii of wine, two hundred fifty eggs

Three hundred fifty modii of wine from Alpiacus; from
Riparicourt one hundred fifty modii; from Abriacus fifty
modii; from Burgundy fifty modii—in all six hundred
modii.

[FROM BURGUNDY?]:

For vinegar thirty-two modii

For beer from hops, as much as need be

Wax for the church itself, two hundred pounds, oil one
hundred and thirty pounds, eight modii of lard

For the brothers' needs, one hundred pounds of wax,
one hundred pounds of oil

END OF ADDENDUM II, THE CONSTITUTION OF ANSEGIS

ADDENDUM III

A GENEALOGY
OF THE EARLY CAROLINGIAN KINGS
AND OF ADALHARD'S FAMILY

Data drawn primarily from Hlawitscka in Karl der Grosse I,
1965, 51-82, Weisemeyer in Corbie abbaye royal, 1963, 111-117

[ILLUSTRATION]

534. A GENEALOGY OF THE EARLY CAROLINGIAN
KINGS AND OF ADALHARD'S FAMILY

* born

⊙ married

† died

ADDENDUM IV (Patrologia Latina CXX, 1552-53.)

PASCHASIUS RATPERTUS:[196]
ON THE TOMB OF ABBOT ADALHARD OF CORBIE

The corpse of the dearly beloved elder was honorably
entombed, and covered over with cut stone, in the Basilica of
Blessed Peter the Apostle, between the four arches of the
crossing. On this stone were carefully chiseled eight verses of
elegaic song . . . [above].

Now at that spot are buried with him the four worshipful men
who were designated by the Lord for the selfsame responsibility
in service. I do not think that it happened by accident. Rather,
after the model of Jesus, as they were one band of Christian
soldiery in carrying their own cross ever upward to this spot, so
should they be buried as one—placed together in a position
manifestly resembling the shape of that Cross. Here we discern
our elder in the center. Above him peal the bells for the hours of
the Divine Office, and at this spot they sound so clearly that one
may believe their ring is the very tongue of the Holy Spirit, and
that the Invitatory to the office of the Work of God originated
here. So, too, the inscription is in eight verses because he died on
the eighth day after the Nativity. Thereby it would be indicated
that he, having consummated the Work in which he formerly
Invited all to join, at the Octave of the Lord he happily passed
on, with not one iota lacking.

Now follows the Eclogue of the Two Nuns (Ecloga Duarum
Sanctimonialium), a plaint in unison. It bespeaks the one of them
(that is, Corbie in Gaul) as nourished in wedlock to him, after
the image of the Church with Christ; but the other (Corbie in
Saxony) in a marvelous balance to have been her direct offspring
according to monastic discipline. Clearly, the one of these was
named Galathea by reason of her pure white countenance,
whereas we may believe that the other was consecrated with the
name of Phyllis because of her zeal for charity: