Catalogus Baronum

The Catalogus Baronum ("Catalogue of the Barons") is a compilation of registers concerning the military obligations owed by the barons of the Kingdom of Sicily. The surviving collection was compiled in 1322 under the Angevin dynasty. It contains three distinct registers from different periods and covering different regions of the kingdom. Although often treated primarily as a feudal or military register, the Catalogus is also a fundamental source for the study of lordship, county organization, and royal administration in the mainland provinces of the kingdom. James Hill has re-examined the text chiefly in relation to recruitment and the administration of the armies of the Norman kingdom, while Hervin Fernández-Aceves has emphasized its value for reconstructing lordship, county reorganization, aristocratic agency, and royal administration in the mainland provinces.^[1][2]

The first, the Quaternus magne expeditionis, was originally compiled under the Norman king Roger II in 1150–51, then revised by his grandson, William II in 1167–68. It listed the fiefs of the crown in the Principality of Capua, the Duchy of Apulia, and the Abruzzi and detailed the services each owed. The second register was composed under William around 1175. It lists only the knights of Aquino, Arce, and Sora. The third register, the Pheudatarii iusticiaratus Capitanatae, is that of the Swabian king Frederick II from 1239–40. It lists only the feudatories of the Capitanate. In Fernández-Aceves's interpretation, the Norman material in particular has also been used to reconstruct the reorganization of counties after the creation of the kingdom and the role of royal comestabuli in coordinating military control on the peninsula.^[3][4]

Das einzige Manuskript, bekannt als Angevin Register 1322 A (242), wurde bis 1943 im Staatsarchiv Neapel aufbewahrt. Es wurde zusammen mit vielen anderen Dokumenten zerstört, als deutsche Besatzungstruppen das Archiv im Zweiten Weltkrieg in Brand setzten . ^{[ 5 ]} Es basierte auf einem heute verlorenen Dokument aus dem späten 13. Jahrhundert, der sogenannten „Schwäbischen Abschrift“, die neben dem Register Friedrichs II. auch eine Abschrift des ursprünglichen Quaternus enthielt. Die Erstausgabe der Sammlung wurde 1653 von Carlo Borrelli veröffentlicht, der dem Dokument auch den heute bekannten Namen Catalogus Baronum gab . Eine moderne kritische Ausgabe von Evelyn Jamison erschien 1972 auf Grundlage erhaltener Fotokopien . ^{[ 6 ]}

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