Capitulary

One calls capitulary an act of the Carolingian royalty .

It is distinguished from the law in what it relates to the exercise of the authority, not relations between the men. The capitulary car its name of the articles (in Latin: capitulated ) between which the content is distributed. In the beginning it is a memorandum drawn up for the counts and bishops having taken part in the assembled Large during which the decisions taken by the king with the council of his faithful were published verbally.

Certain capitulary are letters of assignment, recapitulating the instructions given to the Missi dominici. Others have value of administrative payment: thus capitulary the De Villis (beginning of the 9th century) on the organization and the management of the royal fields. Some, finally, add to the laws - which govern the relations of private law between the men - to specify them, interpret them, even to inflect them. In some cases, the capitulary preserve the text of the dialog between the kings and its large: thus in the Capitulary of Quierzy, where one finds questions of the king and the answers of faithful formulated to the assembly during whom are negotiated, in June 877, conditions of the participation of the counts in the forwarding of Charles the Bald person in Italy.

Normally written in several specimens, the capitulary ones are known by collections of which oldest is the collection compiled in 827 by Anségise, abbot of Luxeuil, then of Fontenelle.

Most known are those of Charlemagne (of which the Admonitio generalis in 789) but there exist also the capitulary ones of Clotaire Ier of Dagobert, of Pépin the Brief, Louis Débonnaire and its successors. With died of Charles Simple the (929), one ceased giving this name to the acts of the royal authority. The best collections of Capitulary are due to Baluze (Paris, 1677) and to Pertz (Hanover, 1826 - 1829).

The late collections include/understand many forgeries.

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