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- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1 The First “Medieval” Advocates
- 2 Putting Down Roots in Ninth-Century Francia
- 3 The “Aristocratization” of Post-Carolingian Advocacy
- 4 Elite Competition at the Turn of the First Millennium
- 5 The Limits of Church Reform
- 6 Pigs and Sheep, Beer and Wine, Pennies and Pounds
- 7 A History of Violence
- 8 Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
- 9 The Murder of Archbishop Engelbert
- 10 Widening the Lens
- 11 The Emperor as Vogt, ca. 1000–1500
- 12 From Lordship to Government?
- 13 Reframing the History of Violence
- 14 Crossing the False Divide
- 15 A Cultural History of the Rapacious Advocate, or: William Tell’s Revenge
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
9 - The Murder of Archbishop Engelbert
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2022
- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1 The First “Medieval” Advocates
- 2 Putting Down Roots in Ninth-Century Francia
- 3 The “Aristocratization” of Post-Carolingian Advocacy
- 4 Elite Competition at the Turn of the First Millennium
- 5 The Limits of Church Reform
- 6 Pigs and Sheep, Beer and Wine, Pennies and Pounds
- 7 A History of Violence
- 8 Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
- 9 The Murder of Archbishop Engelbert
- 10 Widening the Lens
- 11 The Emperor as Vogt, ca. 1000–1500
- 12 From Lordship to Government?
- 13 Reframing the History of Violence
- 14 Crossing the False Divide
- 15 A Cultural History of the Rapacious Advocate, or: William Tell’s Revenge
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a case study of a single dispute over a church advocacy. In 1225, members of the entourage of Count Frederick of Isenberg attacked and killed Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne. Sources written at the time all agree that the reason for this assassination was a dispute between the count and the archbishop over the advocacy for the convent of Essen. Count Frederick had inherited the advocacy and considered it an important source of income and prestige, but Archbishop Engelbert – in whose archdiocese Essen was located – also sought control of the advocacy. The conflict between them ties together many of the themes of the preceding four chapters, including the issues of advocatial violence, forgery, royal and papal intervention in disputes and the importance of the profits accrued from holding an advocacy.
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- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval EuropeA Thousand-Year History, pp. 197 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022