Cartulary of Saint Trond:
A Payment of Relief to a Monastery, c. 1055-1056
Succession dues were usually fixed by custom, and even when real property was
transferred the dues of those attached to the soil did not as a rule change. In this case
the sum seems to have been a year's taxes.
In the name of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity.
I, Adelard, by the grace of God, Abbot of Saint-Trond, make known to all, both present
and future, that Cono, a noble man, for the salvation of his soul, has given six holdings
of land to our church, of which four lie next to Bertree, and they pay twenty solidi on
the Feast of St. John the Baptist, two of which the reeve has in benefice; the remaining
eighteen are given to our reeve.
But if any of those who hold them should die, he who succeeds gives as much as the
deceased man paid annually in taxes, unless any be remitted to him out of charity....
Source:
C. Piot, ed., Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Trond, (Brussels: Academie Royale
de Belgique, 1870), pp. 17-18; reprinted in Roy C. Cave & Herbert H. Coulson, A
Source Book for Medieval Economic History, (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1936;
reprint ed., New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1965), pp. 338-339.
Scanned by Jerome S. Arkenberg, Cal. State Fullerton. The text has been modernized by
Prof. Arkenberg.
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