General Oath of fidelity to the king
Instruction of Charlemagne addressed to the Missi dominici to organize the general oath of fidelity to the king, following the conspiracy of Pip Uneven the. In 793, Charlemagne orders with the missi to make initially swear the bishops and the abbots, the counts and the vassi dominici, the visdomini (right-hand men of the bishops), the archdeacons and the canons. Come then the monks and the clerks who make common life, which is exempted true oath but must swear fidelities in the presence of the abbot, “then the lawyers (which manage the grounds of the Church) and the vicars, the centeniers and the priests secular”. Finally “the whole of the people” (old valid men of at least twelve years): “independent owners, men of the bishops and the abbesses and the counts, or of other lords, and also the serfs of the royal tax department and the Church and the colonists, and the slaves who are honoured by their Master with loads and benefit: that they swear all. ” The peasants fixed, slaves or freed, are isolated oath, except for those which depend directly on the king or the Church.
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