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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, JULIA BARROW wrote: > The succession from communal praebenda to individual praebendae is > fairly normal on the continent, but the latter start to emerge it is > worth noting that it was normal to manage all the prebendal > estates as one and then make distributions from the income, and it > was these distributions which were the 'individual' prebends. The > switchover period varies, but I think Emile Lesne (the best authority > on the subject) saw it starting in the late 11th c in France. For > Germany it's more like the 12th c, sometimes late in that period, > and here it was usually linked with the separation of the chapter > estates into two blocks, one for the provost (to stop him from > continuing to control the canons' income) and the other for the > canons. > > For Poitou-- 3rd qtr of the 10th cent. Mike %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%