• A missus dominicus (plural missi dominici), Latin for "envoy[s] of the lord [ruler]" or palace inspector, also known in Dutch as Zendgraaf (German: Sendgraf)...
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  • Look up missus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Missus may signify The spoken pronunciation of Mrs., often jocular or in dialect Missus dominicus, an "envoy...
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    is named after him and called the Robertians. In 853, he was named missus dominicus by Charles the Bald, King of West Francia. Robert the Strong was the...
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  • described in contemporary sources with the titles of count, margrave, missus dominicus and duke. He stands at the head of a Lotharingian dynasty known to...
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    Saint Paulinus II (c. 726 – 11 January 802 or 804 AD) was a priest, theologian, poet, and one of the most eminent scholars of the Carolingian Renaissance...
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  • all of Gothia for the next four centuries. In 837, he was appointed missus dominicus along with Ragambald in the pago Rutenico seu Nemausense: country of...
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  • Brescia, Parma, Piacenza, Modena, and Bergamo. He was also made a missus dominicus, along with the Brescian bishop Ratald, for Italy. In 818, he was instrumental...
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    Loire. Originally this was Robert the Strong, margrave of Neustria and missus dominicus for the Loire Valley. He began fortifying the capital and fought the...
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    Originally appointed ad hoc, a reform in 802 led to the office of missus dominicus becoming a permanent one. The Missi Dominici were sent out in pairs...
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  • 917), probably a son of Erchanger I, was Count Palatine of Swabia and Missus dominicus and from 915 until his death Duke of Swabia [...] Frederick I, (c. 1020...
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  • the Strong (851/3–856) – given Maine, Anjou, and Touraine as dux and missus dominicus. Rebelled in 856. Louis the Stammerer (856–858) – granted the twelve...
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    the diet of Pavia in February 876 he was appointed arch-minister and missus dominicus for Italy and elevated to the rank of duke. He became governor and...
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  • the appointment of Archbishop Frederick of Mainz as papal vicar and missus dominicus throughout Germany and Francia. Marinus later intervened when the bishop...
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    Vannes, first duke of Brittany by tradition, Father of the Country; a missus dominicus of the Emperor Louis the Pious; Erispoe (ruled 851–857), a Count of...
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    917), probably a son of Erchanger I, was Count Palatine of Swabia and Missus dominicus and from 915 until his death Duke of Swabia [...] Frederick I, (c. 1020...
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  • German and his family is known as the Ahalolfinger. He was originally a missus dominicus in Swabia. In 911, he allied with Bishop Solomon III of Constance due...
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  • Duchy of Spoleto. Winiges was appointed by Charlemagne to act as his missus dominicus in the Ducatus Romae and he was at Saint Peter's Basilica when Pope...
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  • usurping Duke of Gascony, Lupo III Centule. Berengar appears as a missus dominicus of Louis in May 825 and then in 827 in the six counties of Rheims,...
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    Santa Maria Gualtieri: the church was founded in 989 by the judge and missus dominicus Walterius. It was rebuilt in the 11th century and reconsecrated by...
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  • 814–818) Wihomarc (r.  822–825) Nominoe (or Nevenoe) (r.  841–851), as a missus dominicus of the Emperor Louis the Pious, a count of Vannes (Gwened) and arguably...
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    Empire frequently as the clerical member of a duo of envoys styled Missus dominicus, but that was an individual mandate, not attached to the see. Prince-bishoprics...
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  • issued the Capitularia missorum specialia, defining the office of the missus dominicus, a salaried emissary to the kingdom. 803 Charlemagne issued the Lex...
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  • Lothair had attained the emperorship, Anselm was appointed to act as missus dominicus in his province. In the former year, he was in Rome for the coronation...
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    reprimand to the Ambrosian authorities, which he entrusted to the missus dominicus Sicherius; the latter - ignoring the resistance manifested by the Laudensians...
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    and author of a handbook of legislation he used when traveling as missus dominicus (royal agent for Charlemagne); died after 817 Jeremias, ambassador...
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    p. 17. Gallia christiana IX, p. 339-340. Rothadus was named royal missus dominicus by King Louis the Pious in the diocese of Reims in 824/825 when Archbishop...
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  • same events. He was variously referred to as Duke, Count, Marquis, missus dominicus, but historians doubt that these titles were connected to a particular...
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    "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marseilles". newadvent.org. A report of the Missus dominicus Vernarius to Charlemagne, praising Maurontus for his efforts on behalf...
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    bishop in 798, when Charlemagne sent him into Narbonne and Provence as missus dominicus. Under king Louis le Débonnaire he was accused of aiding the rebellious...
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    Erminfridus was designated, along with Abbot Louis of Saint Denis, as missus dominicus, in charge of inspecting the districts of Paris, Meaux, Senlis, Beauvais...
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