A letter from Ermengard

Sender

Bernard Ato IV
Ermengard of Carcassonne

Receiver

Public

Translated letter:

Notice, a charter of surrender which I Ermengard viscountess and my son Bernard-Ato make to the Lord God and St. Mary his mother.  We thus surrender and relinquish Martin Sperandi and Pons Sperandi his brother and their wives and children and their whole genealogy and posterity.  Similarly we also relinquish and surrender Bernard-Ameli and his wife and their children and all their posterity, and we relinquish the children that will come from Ameli Aigolf and their posterity.  As is written above, so I said viscountess Ermengard and my son Ato surrender and relinquish said men and their wives and children and all their posterity to the Lord God and his holy mother, and those men without any retention and without any reservation, that we said surrenderers or any man or any woman or any power of whatever person cannot, we or they, breach and appeal this charter and this surrender by any artifice or any agreement further, but this charter should remain firm and stable for all time.  This charter was made on 7 kalends of April, Saturday, in a year during the reign of king Philip.  Sign of Ermengard viscountess and Bernard Ato my son who signed this charter and ordered it to be signed by witnesses.  Sign of William Pons of Carcassonne.  Sign of Fulk of Villaflorani.  Sign of Pons-Peter of Mea-filia.  Osmond wrote it on the day and year above.

Original letter:

Notitia carta guirpitoria quam ego Hermengardis vicecomitissa & filius meus Bernardus-Atto facimus ad Domino Deo & sanctae Mariae matri ejus.  Guirpimus igitur atque derelinquimus Martinum Sperandi & Pontium Sperandi fratrem suum, & uxores eorum, & infantes, & omnem illorum genealogiam atque posteritatem.  Similiter quoque derelinquimus & guirpimus Bernardum-Amelii & uxorem ejus & eorum infantes atque omnem eorum posteritatem, & derelinquimus infantes qui fuerunt de Ameli Aigolfi & eorum posteritatem.  Sicut suprascriptum est, sic ego jamdicta vicecomitissa Hermengardis & filius meus Ato guirpimus & derelinquimus jamdictos homines & eorum uxores & infantes & omnem eorum posteritatem a Domino Deo & sanctae matri ejus, & ipsos homines sine ulla retinentia & sine ulla reservatione, quod nos jamdicti guirpitores sive ullus homo sive ulla faemina sive ulla cujuscumque personae potestas istam cartam & istam guirpitionem per ullum ingenium sive per ullam convenientiam jam amplius infringere & interpellare non possimus vel possint, sed ista carta firma & stabilis omni tempore permaneat.  Facta carta ista VII kalendas aprilis, VIIa feria, anno quoque regnante rege Philippo.  Sig. Hermengardis vicecomitissa & Bernardus Ato filii mei qui sic istam cartam firmavimus & testibus firmari mandavimus eam.   Sig. Guillelmi Pontii de Carcassona.  Sig. Fulcho de Villaflorani.  Sig. Pontii-Petri de Mea-filia.  Osmundus scripsit die & anno quo supra.

Historical context:

This charter records a donation made by the viscountess and her son of three families to a church.

Printed source:

Histoire Générale de Languedoc 5.759-60, #403.2, CCCXXV. 

Date:

1099, March 26

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7916/m9dr-f668

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