Karl der Große schenkt dem Regensburger Kloster St. Emmeram Land südlich des Klosters

Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv

Description

The deed is one of the oldest preserved at the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv (Bavarian Main State Archive) and at the same time the oldest written testimonial of the city of Frankfurt. While in Frankfurt, Charlemagne transferred by means of this privilege a plot of land adjacent to its property in the South to the Ratisbon monastery of St. Emmeram. It comprised 266 yokes of cultivated and untilled land with meadows next to the spring Vivarius.

With this donation to the monastery of St. Emmeram under Abbot-bishop Adalwin (791 – 816), Charlemagne attempted to strengthen further his position in the Ratisbon area. The Bavarian Duchy with the central city of Ratisbon had come under Frankish rule after the deposition of the last Agilolfing duke Tassilo III in AD 788 but not yet been affirmed. The document shows by means of the chrismon at the beginning, of the littera elongata in the first line, of the signum manus with the ruler’s monogram and of the counter-signature, all exterior signs typical of a Carolingian royal deed and it is authenticated with an applied seal in wax.