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my Senior Moments re the memory of archpresbyters seem to proliferate without
end.
a brief pillage of my Vast Database of Chartres-o-Centric charters turned up
the following hits --the most interesting of which, for our purposes here,
might be the last one, which is an 1112 charter of Fat Louis.
(the largest number of 11th-12th century charters to have survived from the
Chartrain are from the Benedictine house of St. Peter, just down the hill from
the cathedral. among the hundreds of them which were published in 1840
http://tinyurl.com/6rlet5e
http://tinyurl.com/6ns7hap
there were a measly 4 hits on “archpresb*” from the late 11th-early 12th
cc. among these. [Nota Bennies: the “CSPxxx” citations refer to the page
numbers in Guèrard’s ed.]):
1) CSP 142: Ante a. 1080.
De vicaria Ermenteriarum.
….ego Rodulfus….concedo Sancto Petro Carnotensi et monachis ibidem
servientibus vicariam et commendaticiam quam habeo in terram ipsorum….S.
Ageverti archipresbiteri.
2) CSP 148-151: Ante a. 1070.
De aecclesia Sancti Romani, data sub Braiai castro.
….ego Airaldus de Buslo et Landricus de Toriello…in quo aecclesia in
honore sancti Romani martyris habebatur, Sancti Petri coenobio
Carnotensi…concederet; et quia non longe a castello Braiao distat….His
ego, vel ipse qui michi hoc retulit, non interfui; set, ut affirmabat,
Agobertus, archipresbiter et postmodum praesul Carnotinae urbis….
[i.e., it looks like this Agobert guy graduated, Big Time, from the post of
main assistant to the Archdeacon of his particular archdeaconry to being
archpraesul. (Bishop Agivertus/Agobertus appears in charters from 1052-60;
nothing much is known about him, i believe.)]
3) CSP 236-7: Ante a. 1102. [or: Ante a. 1088.]
De decima Ledonis Curiae, quam reclamabant Beccenses monachi.
….Notum …quam futuris, nos monachi sancti Petri coenobii Carnotensis,
Guarnerius scilicet ac Joscelinus Ledonis Curte, quae est cella praefati
cenobii, sub abbate Eustachio [of St. Peter’s] militantes….Ibi quidem
aderat Anselmus, abbas cenobii Becci….Testes hujus rei etiam curavimus
subscribere: Manassem archipresbiterum….[i.e., Manasses is the first among
the listed witnesses to this charter]
4) CSP 490-1:
De ecclesia de Lupiniaco, a Richerio, cum quodam prato et duobus juxta
ecclesiam terre arpennis, cum toto cimiterio nobis data.
…me Richerium, Carnotensium cenobitarum societati nuper familiarem effectum,
beato Petro, cujus obsequiis jugiter famulantur….hanc inde cartulam scribere
precepi, quam ipse ego manu mea, et ceteri quorum subnotantur nomina,
impressis signis, corroboravimus. S. Richerii. + S. Petri, filii ejus. + S.
Willelmi Vicheriensis. + S. Rainaldi, nepotis ejus. + S. Pagani Brugierensis,
quorum assensu donum hoc factum est. S. Rainaldi Carnotensis Archipresbiteri
[i.e., Rainald is the Archpriest of (probably the archedeaconry of?) Chartres
is separate both from the members of the family and the witnesses who follow;
it is not clear to me why he would be here, rather than being listed among the
monk’s witnesses; perhaps he is in that position as a member of the
family?]. Ex parte monachorum hii affuerunt: Adventius miles, Gunbaldus miles,
Fulchardus; Laurentius, cubicularius abbatis; Richardus, Reinardus Herbemale,
Gaufredus cocus, Odilarius, Gaudius, Teduinus et alii plures….
----
There is also a “Robertus archipresbiter” who witnessed a c. 1130 charter
for the more recently founded Benedictine abbey of Josaphat (just outside of
Chartres); he is first among the witnesses listed, before “Ernaldus
presbiter Sancti Sigismundi, Albertus capellanus…”
----
and there is this interesting charter of Louis VI confirming an act of his
daddy Phil 1th, published by Dufour (Rec. des actes de Louis VI, # 64, 1112;
Luchaire n° 144), an example of a secular collegial abbey(??) “reformed”
by turning it over to a regular Benedictine house, beginning in the reign of
Philip I (M. Prou, Philippe Ier, p. 387):
Ludovicus....Notum....Presentibus....In ecclesia Beate Marie [the Royal
collegial of Étampes] coram rege et ***archipresbitero, qui loco
archiepiscopi [of Sens] interfuit***, hoc concesserunt omnes canonici
Gislebertus Canis, Theobaldus magister, Hugo cantor, Arnulphus clericus,
Algninus ***filius Guillelmi presbiteri et Guillelmus frater ejus***
[presumably all of Étampes]….
so, in a royal charter from 1112, we have no less than *two* sons of a priest
of the diocese of Sens witnessing (among the clerics, though not styled as
such themselves), the charter recording an act done in the joint court of the
king and an archpriest (presumably of the archdeconry of Étampes in the
diocese of Sens) acting _in loco archiepiscopi_.
whadda make of *that*, guys?
c
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