Wenilo (archbishop of Sens)
Wenilo
Bishop of Charles the Bald
Wenilo was a chaplain at the court of Charles the Bald before his appointment to the archbishopric.[2] At his subsequent trial for treason, Charles reminded the assembled bishops how
a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father ... and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor. For its good government, I commended it to Wenilo, who was at that time serving me as a clerk in my chapel.[3]
When Charles's father, the Emperor
In June 845, Wenilo and his suffragans, alongside the archbishops
It is recorded that Wenilo took an annual tribute of "one horse and a shield and lance" from the monastery of Saint-Rémy in Sens.[9] The source for this is a letter of Aldric of Le Mans to the church of Sens, in which Aldric says that such an annual tribute was exacted from "the abbot of the same place". Aldric did not consider this oppressive.[10]
Treason, trial and reconciliation
In March 858, at
A published account of Charles's denunciation, A Proclamation against Wenilo, which appears to be heavily influenced by the ideology of Hincmar of Reims, has survived. It presents the election of 848 as a free election to a vacant office, and denies that anybody but the bishops who took part in Charles's anointing can stand in judgement over him.
Ganelon of the chansons de geste
Scholars agree that Wenilo is the historical basis for the character of the traitor
References
- Notes
- ^ There are many variants of his name in French: Wenilon, Vénilon, Guenelon, Ganelon. Wanilo is a contemporary Latin variant.
- suffragans at the time.[1]
- double predestination and the case of Gottschalk of Orbais.
- ^ The invasion began before the end of the siege of Oissel on 23 September.[12]
- ^ The term solatium was a euphemism in use at least since the reign of Childebert II. It referred to the aid that was owed the sovereign in the form of military service, the so-called militia ecclesiae (church militia) raised on church lands.[18]
- Citations
- ^ Ullmann 1969, p. 80 n. 4.
- ^ Nelson 1986a, p. 177.
- ^ Nelson 1992, p. 96.
- ^ Nelson 1992, p. 110.
- ^ Nelson 1992, p. 93.
- ^ Nelson 1992, p. 146–47.
- ^ a b Nelson 1977, p. 245 n. 4.
- ^ McKitterick 1983, p. 174.
- ^ Reuter 1985, p. 86 n. 60.
- ^ Aldric of Le Mans 1831, p. 267: "Episcopus quoque in exigendis muneribus abbatem ejusdem loci non gravet: sed sufficiat ei ad annua dona equus unus et scutum cum lancea".
- ^ Nelson 1992, p. 186 n. 113.
- ^ a b Nelson 1992, p. 188.
- ^ Nelson 1986a, p. 181.
- ^ Bautier 1987, p. 36.
- ^ Bautier 1987, p. 35.
- ^ Nelson 1992, pp. 191–92.
- ^ Ullmann 1969, p. 83, Libellus proclamationis domni Caroli regis adversus Wenilonem
- ^ a b c Nelson 1986b, p. 122–23.
- ^ a b McCormick 1984, p. 5 n. 18.
- ^ a b Thompson 1923, p. 85.
- Radolfus of Tortara.
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