Liber instrumentorum memorialium

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The Liber instrumentorum memorialium is the surviving

Mary before her marriage (15 June 1204) to Peter the Catholic brought the lordship into the Crown of Aragon
.

On the exceptional completeness of the cartulary of the Guilhems, Archibald Ross Lewis wrote:[5]

The Cartulary of the Guillems of Montpellier presents an unusually full record of the activities of a noble family of southern France between the last decades of the eleventh century and the earliest years of the thirteenth. Only the Cartulary of the Trencavels of Beziers, still unpublished,[6] or the Liber feudorum of the Counts of Barcelona[7] can be compared to it; and each of these is much less complete. The Cartulary is preserved primarily because after 1204 most of the heritage of the Guillems was taken over by the commune or town of Montpellier in a corporate sense. Since the town wished to exercise the rights that originally were those of its noble seigneurs, it was to the advantage of the townsmen to preserve intact the record of those rights and privileges which were contained in the Cartulary.

Some of the earliest provisions of the

Popes.[9] The twelfth-century population of Montpellier has been estimated based on the Liber at 6,000–7,500 for the city and 9,000 when its rural environs are included.[10]

Editions

References

  1. ^ For a list of the dynasty's important wills and marriage contracts, cf. A. R. Lewis (1971), "The Guillems of Montpellier: A Sociological Appraisal," Viator, 2, 168–9 n64.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch (2005), "Transformations in the Power of Wives and Widows near Montpellier, 985–1213," The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe: 950–1350, Robert F. Berkhofer, Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto, edd. (Ashgate Publishing), 165–6.
  3. ^ These are described in placita, pacta, conventiones, constitutiones, donationes vel mutaciones ... et fidelitates factas vel faciendas, cum sacramentis, et cetera, cf. Theodore Evergates (2003), Littere Baronum: The Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 20.
  4. ^ Adam J. Kosto (2001), Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, order, and the written word, 1000–1200, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 149.
  5. ^ Lewis, 159.
  6. ^ This cartulary, the Liber instrumentorum vicecomitalium, was first edited and published in 1993 by Hélène Débax.
  7. Counts of Barcelona
    about the same time as the Guilhem cartulary.
  8. Petit Thalamus
    , cf. Lewis 165 n39.
  9. ^ Lewis, 166.
  10. ^ K. L. Reyerson (1979), "Patterns of Population Attraction and Mobility: The Case of Montpellier, 1293–1348," Viator, 10, 257 n2, citing Jean Baumel (1969), Histoire d'une seigneurie du Midi de France 1: Naissance de Montpellier (985–1213) (Montpellier), 224–30.
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