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Capitularies

Capitulary \Ca*pit"u*la*ry\, n.; pl. Capitularies. [See Capitular.]

  1. A capitular.

  2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

  3. A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.

    Several of Charlemagne's capitularies.
    --Hallam.

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capitularies

n. (plural of capitulary English)

Usage examples of "capitularies".

Hugh used him to make copies of any royal cartularies and capitularies which might be of interest to the skopos and to run errands.

I bring also capitularies needing your seal, and a letter for Sister Rosvita from Mother Rothgard of St.

Because of the uproar surrounding Sanglant, Rosvita had only that morning discovered among the capitularies sent from the schola the letter from Mother Romgard and its terrifying contents: malefici-malevolent sorcerers-lurking in the court!

Clerics wrote the letters and capitularies and cartularies which were handed over, sealed, to the king's messengers.

But the adding of these Capitularies to the personal laws occasioned, I imagine, the neglect of the very body of the Capitularies themselves.

Hence it is, that in France and Germany the written laws of the barbarians, as well as the Roman law and the Capitularies fell into oblivion.

The regulations of the Capitularies became likewise of no manner of service.

Be that as it may, we meet with continual quarrels in the Capitularies,157 between the clergy who demanded their estates and the nobility who refused or deferred to restore them.

He ordained, in his Capitularies, that the counties should be given to the children of the count, and that this regulation should also take place in respect to the fiefs.

Here are four royal capitularies completed by the clerics at the king's order.

In succeeding times the arms they made use of were heavy, and they were already greatly so in the time of Charlemagne, as appears by our capitularies and romances.

Hence we constantly find in the Capitularies a distinction made between the king's vassals and those of the bishops.

I shall likewise quote two Capitularies of Charles the Bald, one of the year 861.

Liath glanced through the capitularies: King Henry grants to the nuns of Regensbach a certain estate named Felstatt for which they owe the king and his heirs full accommodation and renders of food and drink for the royal retinue as well as fodder for the horses at such times as the king's progress may pass that way.

There had been a feast the first night they had come here, of course, so the locals might greet them and be presented in their turn, but after all the queen preferred a quiet sojourn, her attention fixed on a series of charters and capitularies and disputes brought to her attention from the string of royal estates and monasteries in this part of Wendar.