ABSTRACT
(C)[Invocation] In the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity. [Intitulation] Henry, by God’s grace king. [Arenga] It is undisputed that with divine grace disposing, we rise above other mortals, whence it is necessary that we strive to obey in every way the will of Him whose favour we excel in. [Notification] Therefore let all of our faithful, present as well as future, know that the venerable man Haicho, abbot of the monastery named Fulda, which is situated in the distria of Grapfeld, built in honour of St Boniface, martyr to Christ, there where the same glorious martyr rests bodily, he [Haicho], approaching the excellence of our Highness when we first came there on account of his request, produced for us a certain diploma of our predecessors Louis and Conrad, in which was contained how those most esteemed princes established the same aforementioned monastery under their deference and protection with the monks serving God there and with those things and men rightly belonging to it. And the aforementioned abbot asked that likewise we should take the same monastery into our protection with the monks there serving God and with the things and men legally belonging to it and that we should join our diploma to the diploma of the aforesaid kings, and since we have judged his petition to be eminently just and reasonable, we have freely accommodated and have given assent to the benefice which he asked for. [Exposition] And therefore on account of divine love and veneration towards the holy place of him [St Boniface] and the tranquility of the brothers dwelling there in the same monastery, we have decreed that this diploma be made by which [Disposition] we ordain and order in the future that no royal official or anyone from the judiciary power dare to enter into the churches, villas, dwellings, or fields – possessions which, divinely granted to us during our reign, the aforesaid monastery possesses in modern times justly and reasonably or which hereafter divine piety might wish to be augmented – for the hearing of cases at any time by judiciary rule or the 112exacting of fines or the furnishing of lodging or victuals [for the royal household] or the raising of oath-helpers or for compelling men of that monastery, free as well as unfree living on the land [to submit to judgement], nor for demanding any revenues or illegal taxes in our time and in the future, or presume to exact what are recalled above, but the same abbot and his successors may possess [those things] of the same monastery with those subject to it under defence of our immunity, and whatever the law of the fisc has been able to exact concerning the aforesaid, we have conceded to the abovementioned monastery and monks for eternal remuneration.
