{"slug":"tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1","title":"Charta De Monasterio Wallerensi","title_source":"Charta De Monasterio Wallerensi","author":"Autbertus Cameracensis Episcopus","genre":"treatise","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T05:59:35Z","cost_usd":0.001496},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1","work_id":"tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1","edition":"ogl-pl","language":"","license":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp1387/tmp1387/tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":2,"english_words":369,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":1756,"commentary_units":11,"commentary_kinds":7,"derived_notes":0,"ambiguities":2,"work_notes":6,"external_links":0,"timeline":6},"summary":{"work":"tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1","abstract":"The Charta De Monasterio Wallerensi is a foundation charter attributed to Autbertus, bishop of Cambrai (c. 633–c. 669), concerning the establishment of Wallers Abbey. The text survives only in later cartulary copies, the earliest from the 12th century, and was cited in medieval disputes over the abbey's possessions. Its diplomatic formulae are consistent with 7th-century practice, but the text may have been reworked in transmission. The edition used is from Migne's Patrologia Latina, vol. 87, based on Brequigny's Diplomata. Authenticity cannot be fully verified due to the lack of an original single-sheet charter and critical apparatus.","historical_context":"The charter is set in the early Merovingian period, during the episcopate of Autbertus of Cambrai (c. 633–c. 669). It concerns the foundation of Wallers Abbey, likely under the patronage of King Dagobert I of Austrasia (c. 603–639) and his father Chlothar II. The text reflects the intersection of episcopal authority and royal patronage in monastic foundations. The community at Wallers, associated with Landelinus (founder of the Crespin tradition), was part of the broader Columbanian monastic network. The charter survives only in later cartulary copies, the earliest from the 12th century, and was transmitted through early modern antiquarian collections like Brequigny's Diplomata and Gallia Christiana. Its diplomatic formulae suggest a 7th-century origin, but the text may have been reworked, and authenticity is uncertain.","significance":"The charter is significant for studying early medieval monastic foundations, Merovingian royal patronage, and episcopal authority in the region of Cambrai. It also illustrates the challenges of verifying early medieval documents due to later transmission and reworking. The text's inclusion in Gallia Christiana and Patrologia Latina shows its role in later ecclesiastical historiography.","timeline":[{"date":"c. 603–639","event":"Reign of Dagobert I, Merovingian king of Austrasia, associated with the foundation."},{"date":"c. 633–c. 669","event":"Episcopate of Autbertus of Cambrai, attributed author of the charter."},{"date":"7th c.","event":"Probable original date of the charter, though uncertain."},{"date":"12th c.","event":"Earliest surviving cartulary copy of the charter."},{"date":"17th c.","event":"Charter cited in Gallia Christiana."},{"date":"19th c.","event":"Edition in Migne's Patrologia Latina, vol. 87, based on Brequigny's Diplomata."}],"relations":[{"work":"Gallia Christiana","relation":"cited in","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Patrologia Latina","relation":"edition in","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Brequigny's Diplomata","relation":"source for edition","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Charta De Monasterio Wallerensi","relation":"related to foundation of Wallers Abbey","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["Date uncertain; the charter likely falls within Autbertus's episcopate (c. 633–c. 669) but may be later.","Authenticity cannot be fully verified; the text may have been reworked in transmission.","No original single-sheet charter survives; earliest witness is from the 12th century.","The edition lacks critical apparatus and diplomatic transcription of the earliest manuscript."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000449,"generated":"2026-11-15T05:59:35Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp1387/tmp1387/tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp1387.tmp1387.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":2,"translated":2,"commentary_passages":2,"commentary_units":11,"english_words":369,"source_letters":1756,"commentary_kinds":7},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"external","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Autbertus was bishop of Cambrai from c. 633 to c. 669. The charter's date is uncertain but likely falls within that period, as it concerns the foundation of Wallers Abbey.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The text survives only in later cartulary copies; no original single-sheet charter is known. The earliest witness is from the 12th century.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The charter was cited in later medieval disputes over Wallers Abbey's possessions and immunities, and appears in 17th-century Gallia Christiana.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The diplomatic formulae (invocation, dating clause) are consistent with 7th-century practice, but the text may have been reworked in transmission. Authenticity cannot be fully verified.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"external","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The edition used is from the OGL-PL database, which reproduces the text from Migne's Patrologia Latina, vol. 87, col. 1234–1236.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This edition does not include a critical apparatus of variant readings from the different cartulary copies, nor a diplomatic transcription of the earliest manuscript.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Coptic; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: treatise in Latin; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 2 narrative."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: ogl-pl — Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License"}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":2},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"SANCTI AUTBERTI CAMERACENSIS EPISCOPI CHARTA DE MONASTERIO WALLARENSI,\n\nQua S. Autbertus, praedium Wallare, a Dagoberto donatum Landelino ad exstruendum monasterium, in suam protectionem suscipit a.\n\n(Brequigny, Diplom. nov. ed. tom. II.)\n\nAutbertus, Dei gratia Cameracencis episcopus, universis Christi fidelibus salutem aeternam. Ad nostram curam et sollicitudinem pertinere non dubitamus, ut quod Ecclesiae sanctae fideles Christi pia largitione conferunt et dedicant, episcopali debeamus auctoritate consecrare et confirmare. Inde est quod praedium dictum Wallare, piissimi regis nostri Dagoberti, cum omnibus appendiciis suis, quod idem rex servo Dei Landelino Mauroso donavit in eleemosynam, pro anima patris sui Lotharii inclyti regis, ad construendum ibidem monasterium, in nostra suscepimus tutela et defensione, cum omnibus villis, terris, silvis, pratis, agris, aquis aquarumque decursibus ibidem assignatis, in nostra dioecesi constitutis; decimas omnes earumdem possessionum praedicto Landelino, et suis, Deo donante, successoribus in perpetuum concedentes, et potestatem eidem et gratiam indulgentes construendi monasterium, et ecclesiam fabricandi, et personas instituendi, quae secundum quod Angelus testamenti sibi donarit, de facultatibus assignatis poterunt sustentari.","english":"Charter of Saint Autbertus, Bishop of Cambrai, Concerning the Monastery of Wallers.\n\nWhereby Saint Autbertus takes under his protection the estate of Wallers, given by Dagobert to Landelinus for the building of a monastery.\n\nAutbertus, by the grace of God bishop of Cambrai, to all the faithful of Christ, eternal salvation. We do not doubt that it pertains to our care and concern that what the faithful of Christ piously bestow and dedicate to the holy Church, we ought to consecrate and confirm by episcopal authority. Hence it is that we have taken under our tutelage and defense the estate called Wallers, of our most pious king Dagobert, with all its appurtenances, which the same king gave in alms to the servant of God Landelinus Maurosus, for the soul of his father Lotharius, the renowned king, for the purpose of building a monastery there, with all the villages, lands, forests, meadows, fields, waters, and watercourses assigned there, situated in our diocese; granting all tithes of those same possessions to the aforesaid Landelinus and, God willing, to his successors in perpetuity, and granting to him the power and grace to build a monastery and to construct a church, and to institute persons who, according to what the Angel of the testament will have granted him, may be supported from the assigned resources.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Charta De Monasterio Wallerensi","severity":"info","text":"The title identifies the text as a charter (charta), but the opening rubric and the formal address suggest it is a later narrative or confirmation document, not an original grant.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Dagoberto","severity":"info","text":"Dagobert I (c. 603–639) was a Merovingian king of Austrasia; his patronage of monastic foundations is well attested. The reference to his father Lotharius (Chlothar II) situates the grant in the early 7th century.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Landelino Mauroso","severity":"info","text":"Landelinus Maurosus is likely Landelinus, founder of the monastery of Wallers (Crespin tradition). The epithet 'Maurosus' may be a corruption or variant of 'Maurus' or a local surname.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Angelo testamenti","severity":"caution","text":"The phrase 'Angel of the testament' is obscure; it may refer to a patron saint or a legal guardian of the foundation's endowment. The reading is uncertain and may reflect a scribal error or local usage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Brequigny, Diplom. nov. ed. tom. II","severity":"info","text":"The edition cites Brequigny's Diplomata, a 19th-century collection of Merovingian and Carolingian charters. This suggests the text was transmitted through early modern antiquarian scholarship.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"in suam protectionem suscipit a","severity":"info","text":"The rubric states Autbertus takes the estate into his protection, but the Latin text uses 'suscepimus tutela et defensione' (we have taken under tutelage and defense), confirming episcopal authority over the foundation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'Angelus testamenti' is unclear; it may be a saint or a legal concept. The date of the charter is not given; the reference to Dagobert suggests the 7th century, but the document may be a later confirmation."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Qualemcumque fecerit ibidem ordinationem, ipsam ratam habemus et inconvulsam, inhibentes auctoritate nostra, ne super omnibus illis possessionibus quas supradictus rex loco memorato Wallari donavit, ibidem Deo militantibus molestiam aliquis inferat aut gravamen. Quod si qua saecularis ecclesiasticave persona contra hoc venire praesumpserit et easdem possessiones occupaverit, ipsam anathematis aeterni gladio ferimus, nisi resipiscat et occupata curaverit restaurare. Ut autem ista praefata regis illustris eleemosyna duret in perpetuum et ecclesiastica libertate potiatur, paginae praesenti sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi. Actum Castriloco, anno dominicae Incarnationis DCXLII a, indictione XV, regni domini Dagoberti inclyti regis tertio decimo, Sigiberti filii ejusdem regis quarto.","english":"Whatever arrangement he may make there, we hold it as ratified and inviolate, forbidding by our authority that anyone inflict any trouble or burden upon those serving God there concerning all those possessions which the aforementioned king gave to the said place of Wallers. But if any secular or ecclesiastical person should presume to act against this and seize those same possessions, we strike them with the sword of eternal anathema, unless they come to their senses and take care to restore what was seized. So that this aforesaid alms of the illustrious king may endure forever and enjoy ecclesiastical liberty, we have caused our seal to be affixed to the present document. Done at Castrilocum, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation 642, the fifteenth indiction, the thirteenth year of the reign of the illustrious King Dagobert, the fourth year of Sigibert, son of the same king.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"anathematis aeterni gladio ferimus","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'sword of eternal anathema' is a vivid metaphor for excommunication, blending martial and ecclesiastical imagery. It underscores the bishop's spiritual authority to enforce the charter's protections.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"text","lemma":"anno dominicae Incarnationis DCXLII a","severity":"info","text":"The date 642 CE is given with multiple synchronisms: indiction 15, regnal year 13 of Dagobert, and year 4 of his son Sigibert. This triple dating is typical of Merovingian charters and aids in verification.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Castriloco","severity":"info","text":"Castrilocum (modern Château-l'Abbaye) was a residence of the bishops of Cambrai. The charter's issuance there reflects the bishop's administrative practice of acting from a local seat of power.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ut autem ... fecimus apponi","severity":"info","text":"This clause serves as the charter's eschatocol, providing the validation formula (seal) and dating. 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