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Ecclesiastical personnel, just as much as townsmen and nobles, often
adopted the names of the immigrant aristocracy or ecclesiastical names popular
amongst the immigrants. 20 For example when the Czechs Radian and Milic were
appointed to the bishoprics of Gniezno (in 1000) and Prague (in 1197), they changed
their names to Gaudentius and Daniel. Similarly, when the bishop of Olomouc
(Olmütz) was consecrated in 1126:
‘Zdik was ordained and, as he was ordained, put off his barbarous
name and was called Henry.’ Here the new name is not biblical,
though it might be argued that it is a saint’s name; what is apparent,
however, is that a ‘barbarous name’ was exchanged for a German
one. 21
In terms of changes in landholding systems, Bartlett deals with the increasing
incidence and spread of fiefs. He argues that, from being unknown, the fief, as well
as becoming more common in Western Europe, spread to regions such as Greece,
Palestine, the Baltic, Andalusia, and southern Italy. Fiefs were given by the leaders
to their warriors or followers after their participation in conquests. In return for this
gift, warriors had to give some services, especially military service, to their leaders.
For Bartlett therefore, the fiefs and the new colonial aristocracies were created
simultaneously. Of course there were various kinds of fiefs, especially in terms of
their value, but they were one of the significant parts of the process of
colonisation. 22
The Chronicle of Morea, for example, a thirteenth-century account
of the establishment of Frankish power in Greece, describes the
subinfeudation of the Morea: Walter de Rosières received 24 fiefs,
Hugh de Bruyères 22, Otho de Tournay 12, Hugh de Lille 8, etc. 23
20 Wilson, Means of Naming, pp. 94-6.
21 Bartlett, Making of Europe, p. 278.
22 Ibid., pp. 50-2.
23 Ibid., p. 52.
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