A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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the entire tithe. In contrast, Ruthard’s 1108 charter mentions only a “Salic
tithe,” which he, Ruthard, had granted to the monks after he had gained it
from the canons of St Victor in exchange. The 1128 charter also includes the
donation of a tithe obtained through exchange, but only in the 15th and
fijinal place in the list of Ruthard’s donations. In 1130, Archbishop Adalbert
had to mediate a fijierce conflict between St Victor and the Disibodenberg
involving this same tithe. The reconciliation is documented twice: the
cartulary from the Disibodenberg covering the 14th/15th century includes
a brief version as a copy of one of Adalbert’s charters;36 a longer version
of the original, sealed decision is extant from St Victor.37 The previous
history appears only in the longer version, according to which the canons
accused Ruthard of transferring the tithe, which had been theirs for
a long time, to the monks against their will and without compensation.
The monks responded that they held the tithe justly because the archbishop
had obtained it for them in exchange. Willigis is not mentioned at
all. In the 1130 decision, Adalbert prescribed (ordinavimus) a compromise
settlement without referring to either of the charters from 1108 and 1128,
which the monks obviously did not produce, even though the provisions
included therein were more advantageous to them. Apparently, in addition
to the manse in Algesheim, listed as compensation for the canons,
the archbishop added a farm near the Stockburgertor, which the monks
had received from a citizen of Mainz, and a monetary payment owed to
the bishop resulting from this donation. These were evidently supposed to
replace the benefijits from Hilbersheim, confijirmed in 1128. Nothing of the
sort appears in the cartulary version.
At this point, instead of continuing with the list of donations, the
1128 charter links the grant in Sobernheim to a detailed provision of the
easements to the church, which was equipped with a sanctuary and two
choirs, and to the Mary chapel. This is accomplished in such a clumsy
manner that the easements can also be read as applying to the Sobernheim
church. The church on the Disibodenberg must be intended, at least,
as it had developed in the fijirst half of the 12th century; the Mary chapel
was consecrated in 1146. This interruption is followed in the list of donations
by two churches in Ostertal (near Sankt Wendel), with Salic land
and 20 manses. This then provokes the question: Did Willigis really intend
to establish a strategic outpost, as the foundation of the Disibodenberg
36 MzUB, 562.
37 Ibid., 563.