Negotiating Privileges at the Imperial Court : Sigismund of Luxembourg’s Charters for Italian Recipients and Their Financial Background

SCHMIDT, Ondřej. Negotiating Privileges at the Imperial Court : Sigismund of Luxembourg’s Charters for Italian Recipients and Their Financial Background. In Diplomata pecuniaria : Zur finanziellen Dimension von Urkunden : IV. Brünner Workshop zu diplomatischen Studien, Philosophische Fakultät der Masaryk-Universität, Brno, 3. 6. 2022. 2022.

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Original name

Negotiating Privileges at the Imperial Court : Sigismund of Luxembourg’s Charters for Italian Recipients and Their Financial Background

Authors

SCHMIDT, Ondřej (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Diplomata pecuniaria : Zur finanziellen Dimension von Urkunden : IV. Brünner Workshop zu diplomatischen Studien, Philosophische Fakultät der Masaryk-Universität, Brno, 3. 6. 2022, 2022

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Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60101 History

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129075

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Sigismund of Luxembourg; Imperial Court; Italy; Mantua; Milan; Venice; Privileges; Finances

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Abstract

V originále

One of the main themes that regularly appears in the correspondence of Italian ambassadors from the Imperial Court is the negotiation concerning the privileges requested and their price. Considerable sums went both to the monarch, who relinquished some of his prerogatives to the recipient, and to the chancery responsible for drawing up the charters. The aim of this paper is to shed light on the financial background of the issuing of imperial privileges, using three selected cases in which three prominent Italian powers acted as recipients. Specifically, these are the privilege for the elevation of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga of Mantua to margrave (1432), the ducal investiture for Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan (1426), and the vicariate charter for the Republic of Venice (1437). By analysing these relatively well-documented cases, the financing of Sigismund’s court and chancery will be better understood.

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GF19-29622L, research and development project

Name: Šedé eminence v akci: neformální personální struktury na pozdně středověkých dvorech (Acronym: GrEmiA) Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Partner Agency (Austria)