Inter duos fluvios: the praedium Ueldes and the origins of the territorial lordship of the bishops of Brixen in Bled, in the mark Creina
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/157Keywords:
Middle Ages, 10th-11th Century, Alps, Carniola, Bressanone, Territory, Lordship, BordersAbstract
Dating from the Ottonian age, some bishoprics in the German kingdom were given large land estates and lordship rights in Carniola, a territory in the Eastern Alps, with the aim of granting imperial control, even if indirectly, on the areas ad terminos Sclavorum. In this contest Albuin, the bishop of Sabiona-Brixen, obtained in 1004 by Emperor Henry II the praedium Ueldes, near the present Slovenian town of Bled. Around this praedium during the 11th century the bishops of Brixen acquired selected goods and rights, such as the hunting bannum, in a sort of work in progress allowing them the building up of a bannum lordship that became more and more compact and defined. It had its centre in the castellum of Bled and had neat North and West boundaries: its North-Eastern and South-Eastern limits were the two branches of the river Sava and of the torrent Tržiška Bistrica, while on the Western side less neat limits were the Julian Alps. The boundaries of the Brixen lordship of Bled remained more or less the same till the Napoleonic age, when most of the estates of Brixen Church became state properties.
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