Remarks on an Early-Medieval „Show Trial”: Tassilo III’s Dethronement
Tamás Nótárí
The creation of a unified empire by Charlemagne required quite number victims, one whom was Tassilo III, the last duke Agilolfing dynasty reigning in Bavaria for two centuries. history his fall may awake legal historians’ interest because Frank monarch dethroned him not means bloody military defeat but trial (now called show trial1) 788. Before isolated both foreign and home affairs carefully measured diplomatic steps. Finally, putting under jurisdiction 787, he made vassal. main charges brought against were infidelitas, i.e., unfaithfulness to liege lord harisliz, desertion – though latter claimed had been carried out quarter century before trial. given work aims enlighten background this rather opaque case contouring historical context. First we consider Tassilo’s reign trial, then investigat Franko-Bavarian conflict iuramenta fidelitatis Tassilo. In end, after highlighting question infidelitas harisliz analyse itself.
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