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.
Further to what I said about prebendal endowments in England, for the
post-Conquest developments probably the best starting point now is
the introduction to each of Diana Greenway's volumes in her new
edition of the 1066-1300 John Le Neve Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae,
plus the description of each prebend in each volume.
Best wishes
Julia Barrow
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