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CAPITULARY OF QUIERZY [KIERSY]

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 749 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAPITULARY OF See also:QUIERZY [KIERSY]  , a See also:capitulary of the See also:emperor See also:Charles the Bald, comprising a See also:series of See also:measures for safeguarding the See also:administration of his See also:realm during his second See also:Italian expedition, as well as directions for his son See also:Louis the Stammerer, who was entrusted with the See also:government during his See also:father's See also:absence . It was promulgated on the 14th of See also:June 877 at See also:Quierzy-sur-See also:Oise in See also:France (dep. of See also:Aisne), the site of a Carolingian royal palatium, before a See also:great See also:con-course of lords . In this document Charles takes elaborate precautions against Louis, whom he had every See also:reason to distrust . He forbids him to sojourn in certain palaces and in certain forests, and compels him to swear not to despoil his stepmother Richilde of her allodial lands and benefices . At the same See also:time Charles refuses to allow Louis to nominate to the countships See also:left vacant in the emperor's absence . In principle the honores (benefices) and the See also:office of a deceased See also:count must be given to his son, who would be placed See also:pro-visionally in See also:possession by Louis; the definitive See also:investiture, however, could be conferred only by Charles . The capitulary thus served as a See also:guarantee to the See also:aristocracy that the See also:general usage would be followed in the existing circumstances, and also as a means of reassuring the See also:counts who had accompanied the emperor into See also:Italy as to the See also:fate of their benefices . It cannot, however, be regarded as introducing a new principle, and the old See also:opinion that the capitulary of Quierzy was a legislative See also:text establishing the hereditary See also:system of fiefs has been proved to be untenable . A former capitulary of Charles the Bald was promulgated at Quierzy on the 14th of See also:February 857, and aimed especially at the repression of See also:brigandage . See E . See also:Bourgeois, Le Capitulaire de Kiersy-sur-Oise (See also:Paris, 1885), and"L'See also:Assen:blee de Quierzy sur-Oise" in Etudes d' histoire du moyendge, dediies d See also:Gabriel See also:Monod (Paris, 1896) . (R .

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