Herrscherdiplom
English translation: royal/imperial diploma
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| German to English translations [PRO] History / Switzerland in the year 854 | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Michael Martin, MA United States Local time: 09:37 | ||||||
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| 3 +3 | royal/sovereign charter |
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| 3 | royal/imperial diploma |
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peer agreement (net): +3royal/sovereign charter Explanation: This looks like a useful annotated bibliography: http://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/a/a141030.TXT -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2013-06-20 09:16:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- It seems that a royal diploma is a kind of charter, so I guess it depends on the tenor of your text and your readership as to whether you go with charter or diploma: Written documents of the kind recognisable as charters, written in almost all cases (though not exclusively) on single sheets of parchment, were introduced into Anglo-Saxon England in the seventh century, conceivably by the Christian missionaries in the early years of the century, perhaps some time later, but certainly by c. 670. Over the whole period, from c. 670 to 1066, we encounter various different forms of charter, and it is not until the mid-ninth or first half of the tenth century that anything approximating to a 'standard' form emerges, whether for a grant of land, or for an act of any other kind. A standard 'royal diploma' is a formal record, in Latin, of an act which took place in the context of a royal assembly, whereby a specified parcel of land designated (or re-designated) as an estate of 'bookland' (by powers vested exclusively in the king and his councillors) was granted, as bookland, to the person or religious house named as the beneficiary. The bounds of the estate are normally given, in the boundary-clause. In most cases, the record is dated by year only, and the location of the royal assembly is not given; in a few cases the draftsman of the charter specifies the day of the month as well, or names the place where the assembly was held (or both). The witness-list incorporated in the diploma, which is symbolic of the origin of the diploma at a royal assembly, comprises a selection of those whose presence at the assembly had been registered probably on a separate memorandum, used by the draftsman in producing a diploma. The completed diploma (folded and endorsed) would (in most cases) have been handed over to the beneficiary at the assembly itself, and retained thereafter as a title-deed for the estate in question. Subsequent or secondary transfers of the estate could be affected without any need for the drawing-up of a new diploma, by transferring the existing title-deed into the hands of the new owner in the presence of witnesses, perhaps at a royal assembly, but perhaps more often at a local assembly. In some cases, a vernacular record of a 'secondary' transfer of the property was made at the local assembly, including a list of the witnesses. http://www.kemble.asnc.cam.ac.uk/node/54 |
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