medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Wickstrom wrote:
> As for "vidame", (which I still balk at, pace duCange,
> Niermeyer et al. as archaic, at best in English usage.) Could one say
> the vicedominus in France is more or less equivalent to the German
> advocatus? Niermeyer's entries suggest that the office was rather
> more clerical, somewhat like archdeaconries until the 10th c. when
> (perhaps owing to the Dangers of the Times, they became lay
> protectors of the church's possessions).
The rule of thumb is that a vidame was to a bishop (or count-bishop) as a
viscount was to a count.
John Briggs
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