Kodeks Dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski

Twenty-one entries of the Kodeks Dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski (Codex diplomaticus Maioris Poloniae), the edition of the medieval documents of Greater Poland, from eight of its volumes, published at Poznań from 1877 to 1999. Each entry is one document here, given whole: the Kodeks’s number, the editors’ heading, their summary and list of sources, the text of the medieval document and their notes. The entries were chosen by the editor of this edition for what they say of Trąbczyn and its neighbours; they run from 1173 to 1440, and are in order of date. The text is the electronic text of each volume in the Wielkopolska Digital Library, from the copies of the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences; each document’s page names its volume and number, linked to the volume.

Historical background

The Cistercian abbey of Ląd, on the Warta between Konin and Pyzdry, was the great landowner of the district in the Middle Ages, and most of these documents concern it. Trąbczyn itself was held by knights, who took their name from it (“de Trampczino”), while the abbey held the villages around it and the tithe of its fields. The volumes 1 to 5 were edited in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, with their summaries in Latin and their notes in Polish; the volumes 6 to 11, from 1982, give heading and summary in Polish.

Contents

The abbey of Ląd and its villages. Duke Mieszko gives the abbey “little Vronchin”, Wrąbczynek, in 1173 [1]. Archbishop Fulko gives it the tithes of Zagórów, Skokum, Kopojno, Trąbczyn, Szetlew, Łukom and Wrąbczyn, in a document dated 1240 [2]. The dukes confirm its estates in 1261 and 1280, among them Szetlew, Zagórów, Skokum and Oleśnica, and the sanctuary people whom the editors place at Świątniki [4, 6]. In 1291 the abbey gains Kopojno by exchange [7]. The judges of Kalisz declare in 1377 that Wrąbczynek and Adamierz have been the abbey’s from of old [11], and in 1384 the judge of Kalisz gives it the investiture of “Vronczino”, Wrąbczyn or Wrąbczynek [12]. In 1399 the Archbishop of Gniezno adjudges the sheaf tithe of Trąbczyn to the abbey against Jan, the parish priest of Trąbczyn [13]. In 1407 the King allows the abbey to found a town at Zagórów under the law of Magdeburg [14]; the abbots then deal with its schultheiss and peasants [15, 18], and in 1414 the parish church of Zagórów is handed over to the abbey [16].

Trąbczyn and its knights. In 1276 Duke Bolesław gives the village of Trąbczyn, “Trupcino”, to Count Mikołaj, treasurer of Ląd, after two earlier holders had died without heirs [5]. In 1346 the brothers Jan and Przedpełk, heirs of Trąbczyn, and Andrzej of Trąbczyn with his kin lose their claim to Stropiszyn and Pępocin against the church of Gniezno [9, 10]. Mikołaj and Andrzej of Trąbczyn witness a sale to the abbey at Gniezno in 1415 [17]. In 1434, in the house of Mścichna, wife of Otto, heir in Trąbczyn, their son Wojciech, a canon of Kruszwica, makes his brother Jan of Trąbczyn his proctor [19]: the only one of these documents written at Trąbczyn.

Other hands. Wisław son of Gerlach gives up Wrąbczyn in an exchange confirmed in 1292 [8]. In 1440 King Władysław III charges sums for Stanisław Czarny on Wrąbczynek, Adamierz and Borzykowo, which the editors call royal villages near Pyzdry [20, 21]. Among the villages of the hospital of Gniezno, given to the canons of Miechów in 1243, is “Chemelino”, which the editors identify as Imielno, the neighbour of Łukom [3].

The editors’ notes are of their time and are kept as they are. Their note to the exchange of 1418 puts Wronczyn in the district of Poznań and could not say which Drzewce is meant, but the document places Great Wrąbczyn beside Zagórów, and the edition tags it so [18].

Form and language

Estates and people

The estates tagged are the editor’s seventeen around Trąbczyn and Zagórów: Zagórów, Skokum, Kopojno, Ląd, Szetlew, Szetlewek, Łukom, Imielno, Trąbczyn, Wrąbczyn, Wrąbczynek, Świątniki, Oleśnica, Łazy, Adamierz, Drzewce and Przybysław. Łazy and Szetlewek do not occur in these entries, and Przybysław only as the name of a man, the servant of the church of Zagórów in 1414 [16]; none of the three is tagged. People are named in the index only where they are of Trąbczyn (the editor).

Related holdings

The convent of Ląd as owner of Drzewce, a neighbour of Trąbczyn, in the boundary decree of 1775: 53/17/0/-/Konin Gr.145. The abbot of Ląd at the funeral of Paweł Prusimski in 1754: Cz2271, Kuryer Polski 1754, nr 75. The visitation of the parish of Trąbczyn in 1791: 85.

Text

There are no page images: the Wielkopolska Digital Library holds the Kodeks as a proofed electronic text, one file to a volume, without the printed pages. The editor chose the entries and supplied them in one file, copied from those texts, and that file is the transcription: every line of an entry is a line of the document, from the Kodeks’s number to the last note. Nothing in it is corrected (the editor: the text “should be taken as secure”). Each document is one page.

Footnotes

In the electronic text the editors’ footnote marks stand on the line, glued to their words (“Mezeconis1”, “quatuordecimoa”), and the notes follow the text. Each mark and each note was located by hand and recorded beside the text; the site raises the marks and sets the notes apart. Two have no partner: a note of the entry of 1414 that the file runs into the line of another, and a note of the first entry of 1440 whose mark is not in the text.

Dating and places

Each document is dated and placed by the editors’ heading, which reads its dateline. The document of Archbishop Fulko has no place, and the editors mark its year, 1240, “sic”. Where a copy’s year is at odds with the rest of its date, the editors’ year is taken: 1415 for the copy that has 1414, 1434 for the one that has 1435, as their notes explain.

Estates and people

Each document is tagged by hand with the estates of the editor’s list of seventeen that it names, read with the editors’ identifications. People are entered in the index only where they are of Trąbczyn (the editor): the knights and heirs of Trąbczyn of 1276 to 1434, and the parish priest of 1399. Many people of other places are left unnamed in the index.

Summary and translation

The summaries were written in German from the Latin and the editors’ apparatus of each whole entry, and put into English; each of their 107 statements was then checked against the entry. The English translation of each entry, the editors’ parts as well as the document, was made in the same session; places are given in their modern Polish forms where the editors identify them, the medieval spellings standing in the Latin. The medieval spellings of each estate are listed with their years on the page of places.