Retourne (river)

Type:Elite property
Certainty:Region
From:573
To:590
Original text:episcopiumque invenitur auxisse, arva sed et mancipia nonnulla emisse. Quarum eius emptionum adhuc quaedam quoque reperiuntur instrumenta, ut illud, quo campos duos a Boboleno super fluvium Rotumnam legitur dato precio comparasse, quorum unus modios mille tenere sementis, alter inscribitur quadragentos.’
Translation text:[Egidius] is found to have enlarged the bishopric with arable lands and to have purchased slaves. Certain records of his acquisitions are found even today, such as that by which, it is read, he acquired for a fixed price two fields above the Retourne river from Bobolenus, one of which, it is written, supported a thousand modii of seed, the other four hundred.
Property type:Aristocratic property
Role:Unknown
Property owner:Bobolenus
Action or transaction type:Sale
Benificiar role:Bishop
Benificiary:Egidius, bishop of Rheims
Type of Christian cult place:Male
Person role:Abbot
Founder:Basolus
Date of foundation to:590
Publications:Roberts 2019: 104-144

Sources

NameTitleReferenceFromTo
Flodoardus Historia Remensis ecclesiaeFlodoardus Remensis Historia Remensis ecclesiae2.2945955