No. 1 – The Konradiner and Their Hessian Heirs: An Annotated Table by Donald C. Jackman – vi, 76 pp., large table – $10.00

A large-scale genealogical table details the family relationships of over 120 persons covering 8 generations of the most widespread and important Frankish aristocratic family of the German central middle ages (circa 850-1050). The text serves as a guide to the basis of affiliations in argumentation drawing on disparate and problematical source materials.

Rather than repeat source citations and discussions pertaining to this widely investigated family, the survey concentrates on providing orientation to the academic literature where definitive source discussion occurs. The evolution of counties is followed from the heyday of the post-Carolingian pagus to the birth of fragmented dynastic principalities. The Hammerstein family, the last historically established Konradiner line in Hessen, receives special focus.
 

No. 2 – Ius hereditarium Encountered I: The Meingaud-Walaho Inheritance by Donald C. Jackman – viii, 107 pp., 2 large tables – $10.00

The introductory component of the tripartite “Ius Hereditarium Encountered” describes the Meingaud-Walaho inheritance that transpired in or around 906, as well as several closely connected ninth-century comital successions in the middle Rhenish region. In addressing the many and various aspects of the Meingaud-Walaho inheritance, a fairly comprehensive picture of the origin of the Salian imperial dynasty emerges.

Compelling explanations are achieved for the complex origins of the Salian duchy of Worms and its eventual absorption in the Rhenish palatinate. Interpretation of comital succession based on reliably inferred affiliations leads to a general understanding of principles of succession during the Carolingian period, and to an appreciation of the profound vitality of inheritance in public office, a hitherto poorly understood stage of constitutional development preceding feudal dynasticism.
 

No. 3 – Ius hereditarium Encountered II: Approaches to Reginlint by Donald C. Jackman – viii, 103 pp., 2 large tables – $10.00

The middle component of the tripartite “Ius Hereditarium Encountered” addresses the question of inherited right in the birth of the Swabian duchy in the second decade of the tenth century. Burkhard I and Hermann I, the first two dukes of Swabia, were husbands in succession of Reginlint, and our perception therefore is that Reginlint’s right brought the ducal office to her husbands in turn. Can this be demonstrated?

In the course of this investigation, neglected source evidence sheds light on the throne-right of the Lambertiner emperors and the Rudolfine kings of Burgundy; on the disgrace of Bishop Liutward of Vercelli; and on the heirs of the old Alemannian dukes.
 

No. 4 – Ius hereditarium Encountered III: Ezzo’s Chess Match by Donald C. Jackman – viii, 109 pp. – $10.00

The third and final component of “Ius Hereditarium Encountered” is focused around the chess match by which Count Palatine Ezzo allegedly won the hand of the imperial princess Mathilde in the early 990s. The directly contemporary Capetian succession in France reveals similar issues of throne-right in the post-Carolingian world.

This paper discusses neglected source evidence definitively documenting the fact that tenth-century descendants of the Carolingians were far more numerous than is generally understood. Ezzo may have won Mathilde’s hand in a chess match, but clearly he had already been identified as the appropriate groom by virtue of his place in the imperial consanguinity.
 

No. 5 – Gerhard Flamens (Part One) by Donald C. Jackman – iv, 49 pp. – $7.00

The witness list in Emperor Henry IV’s diploma of 1101 for Andenne is subjected to discourse analysis, a method of applied linguistics. Here, and in a private document for Rees from 1138/9, a close relationship between the counts of Geldern and Looz becomes apparent. Many sources, including the description of Gerhard Flamens’ consanguinity in the Annales Rodenses, coalesce around this reconstruction.

The term ‘flamens’ is equated with ‘flaminius’, which evidently concerns the battle standard of Cologne. The standard-bearer’s office – occasionally referred to as a landgravate – passed from Gerhard Flamens († 1067) to Count Gerhard of Hochstaden, who in 1086 forfeited it to his sister’s son, Gerhard of Geldern, whose wife was Emperor Henry’s first cousin.
 

No. 6 – Three Bernards Sent South to Govern (868) by Donald C. Jackman – forthcoming

From the introduction – “The title of this investigation refers to an entry in the annals of St. Bertin under the year 868 describing a court held at Pitres (Normandy) by the West Frankish king Charles the Bald. Among other affairs of the realm, the presence of the southern margraves is mentioned: “Sed et in eodem placito rex markiones, Bernardum scilicet Tolosae et iterum Bernardum Gothiae, itemque Bernardum alium suscepit.” The word ‘suscepit’ can be understood either as ‘received’ or as ‘acknowledged’. It is clear that the three Margraves Bernard mentioned here were summoned to this northerly location as a group, and it is equally clear that they were sent forth as a group. There is some cause to believe, therefore, that the margraves returned south with their credentials acknowledged or confirmed, thus on a considerably more solid basis than prior to this meeting. In seeking to provide evidence to support such a conjecture, a comprehensive description of the principle of succession to public office in the constitution of this period will be undertaken, with close attention to the role of inheritance in succession.”

No. 7 – Hochstaden: Public Succession in Ripuaria of the High Middle Ages by Donald C. Jackman – viii, 96 pp. – contents – $10.00

In Ripuaria of the high middle ages the comital title always passed from one individual to another, and was never divided to accommodate more than one individual. The titles stemming from the old pagi can for the most part be followed to great effect. The early counts of Hochstaden appear to have been involved at one time or another with six distinct counties based on Ripuarian pagi. These passed in various ways, but always according to a principle of unitary succession.

An eloquent case is made for the descent of the counts of Sayn in the male line from the early Hochstaden counts, including a wide range of evidence supporting precise identities and affiliations. This study also looks at the landgravial office that is explicitly documented for Count Gerhard I of Geldern in an imperial diploma of 1098.
 

No. 8 – Ius hereditarium Compassed: The comitatus nemoris in 1177 and 1207 by Donald C. Jackman – iv, 27 pp. – $5.00

The problem of the formation of the Ripuarian principality of Jülich is reconsidered from the standpoint of inherited right. Careful reconstruction shows that the succession from Count William II to Count William III operated via strict rules of inheritance, contrary to the common understanding of discontinuity in the path of succession for the comitatus nemoris, a component first united with Jülich in 1177.

Discussion focuses primarily on the comital dynasty of Molbach and the seigneurial dynasty of Hengebach. Considerable precision is achieved with regard to the ties that existed between these two families, and in the reconstruction of the Molbach generations. The comitatus nemoris passed from the tenth-century Matfridinger via Gerhard Flamens and Hochstaden to the Molbach counts. The heiress brought it to Jülich, and the two components then arrived to the lords of Hengebach concomitantly but along separate paths of inheritance.
 

No. 9 – Geldern, Looz, and Public Succession by Donald C. Jackman – x, 111 pp. large table – contents – $10.00

This study offers a comprehensive rebuttal to objections voiced in the literature regarding the inferable fraternal relationship between Counts Gerhard I of Geldern and Arnold I of Looz as presented in AMP, no. 5. It then explores the ancestry shared in common by the parents of these persons. Finally, it offers a general description of principles of succession operative in Lower Lorraine during the troubled tenth century.

Considerable precision is achieved on particular questions, beginning with a debunking of the bizarre assertions of Vanderkindere (1903) about the marriages of Countess Ermengarde (fl. 1078). A genuinely precise affiliation is provided for descent of the dynasty of Brabant from the Ansfrieds of the tenth century. Conversely, a full reconstruction of the descent of the Ansfrieds from the Balderics could not be achieved, although the existence of such descent is vigorously defended.
 

No. 10 – Canes palatini: Dynastic Transplantation and the Souvenir of St. Simeon by Donald C. Jackman – vi, 70 pp. – contents – $10.00

A chronicle source hitherto entirely overlooked sheds light on the aristocratic associations of the foundation of St. Simeon’s church in Trier. A chapel dedicated to Stephen, companion of the anchorite Simeon of Syracuse († 1035), is thought to have been founded in 1337, but can now be traced back almost to the lifetime of Simeon, whose last days were spent at the Porta Nigra in Trier. A monastery of St. Simeon founded at Kiev in the late eleventh century seems also to have this same saint as its patron.

The name Simon, a Latin version of Simeon, spread among the related families of the counts of Saarbrücken and dukes of Lorraine. In both lineages a personal acquaintance with St. Simeon is very likely. The extent of information on the family connections between these two dynasties is explored. Clear patterns of Greco-Roman onomastic inheritance provide confirmation for a set of inferred relationships involving the Salian and Staufer emperors.
 

No. 11 – The Kleeberg Fragment of the Gleiberg County by Donald C. Jackman – forthcoming

This opus unites a like-titled conference presentation of 2000, hitherto unpublished, with a series of draft studies that have developed under the working titles of “The Proprietary of Metternich,” “Spectacular Marital Consanguinity around 1130,” and “The Chronology of the Counts of Sayn.” All are devoted to aspects of the conflicted hereditary landscape following the reign of the anit-king Hermann († 1088). Both his heirs and his adversaries (to whom he had technically forfeited) needed to be honored in their claims, leading to some noteworthy problems of historical reconstruction.

The principal task is to determine the nature of the relationship between the anti-king Hermann and Count Palatine Henry of Laach. The existence of a close relationship between these two is well documented, but its precise nature has baffled historians. This study provides a definitive answer to that central question.