Launch party competition results, part 1: strangest personal name in a medieval charter


Posted: Dec. 15, 2014, 11:20 a.m. by Alice Rio

The launch party for the project took place at King's College London on Friday 12 December 2014. There were two competitions, the first of which was for the “strangest personal name in a medieval charter”. Entries were supplied by the project team as well as by other charter lovers (with grateful thanks to Giuseppe Albertoni, Jon Jarrett, Sören Kaschke, Thomas Kohl, Luca Larpi, Matt McHaffie, Fraser McNair, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, Julia Smith and Joan Vilaseca!).

The winner, by a very close margin, was Iohannesbonus Cacans Rabiam (“Good-John Shits-Rage”) of Cremona, with 6 votes (proposed by Gianmarco de Angelis), followed closely by Martinus Qui Dicitur Habet Tres Testiculis of Saint-Vincent du Mans (“Martin-Said-To-Have-Three-Testicles”, 5 votes, proposed by Thomas Kohl).

For further historical context for our winner, see F. Menant, ‘Une forme de distinction inattendue: l’anthroponymie scatologique de l’élite communale lombarde’, in Écritures de l’espace social: Mélanges d’histoire médiévale offerts à Monique Bourin (Paris, 2010), 437-456.

Daniel Hadas, esteemed Latin teacher for the MA in Medieval History, casts the deciding vote before anxious onlookers

For a full record of the entries with bibliographical references: 

Dominico called Cacainbocte

G. Marini (1805), I papiri diplomatici, Rome, Vol. I, n. 28, (Rome 955)

Durabilis

Abadal y Vinyals, Ramón de. 1955. Com neix i com creix un gran monestir pirinenc abans de l'any mil: Eixalada-Cuixà. Analecta Montserratensia 8:125-337, no. 51 p 268

Eccho

REG 11

Filosofrosius

Codice diplomatico longobardo, II, doc. nos 113, 132, 179, 207. Dates: 754-767

Gaufridus Bibens Solus

Cartulaire noir de la cathédrale d’Angers, ed. Urseau (Paris 1908), p. 354

Girardus faciens stultitiam

Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Vincent du Mans (ordre de saint Benoît): Premier cartulaire : 572-1188 ed. R. Charles/Samuel Menjot d’Elbenne, Le Mans 1886-1913, no 85

Gosbertus Tenens Mentulam

Cart. de chapitre de Saint-Laud d'Angers, ed. A. Planchenault (Angers, 1903), no. 44

Iohannesbonus Cacans Rabiam

Codex Diplomaticus Cremonae, I, doc. no. 84 p. 108. Date: 1131

Lithorx

Codice diplomatico longobardo, I, doc. no. 37. Date: 725-726

Lupo Suplainpunio

I placiti del ‘Regnum Italiae’, vol. 1, ed. Cesare Manaresi, Roma 1955 (Fonti per la storia, n. 92), n. 49 (845 II 26), pp. 160–166

Mango

Farfa 2:184

Martinus qui dicitur habet tres testiculis

 Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Vincent du Mans (ordre de saint Benoît): Premier cartulaire : 572-1188 ed. R. Charles/Samuel Menjot d’Elbenne, Le Mans 1886-1913, no 18

Napuhhi

REG 11

Oremus

Redon charters nos, lxxxiv, xcviii (pp. 64, 74)

Paganus pauper sensu

Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Vincent du Mans (ordre de saint Benoît): Premier cartulaire : 572-1188 ed. R. Charles/Samuel Menjot d’Elbenne, Le Mans 1886-1913, no 193, 616

Persona

Catalunya Carolingia IV: els comtats d'Osona i Manresa, ed. Ramon Ordeig i Mata (Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans 1999), 3 vols, doc. no. 712. 

Rebellis

Catalunya Carolíngia, 2.ii, Els diplomes Carolingis a Catalunya, ed. R. d’Abadal i de Vinyals, (Barcelona, 2007), 312-314

Robocandus

Catalunya Carolingia IV: els comtats d'Osona i Manresa, ed. Ramon Ordeig i Mata (Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans 1999), 3 vols, doc.nos 4, 8, 16 & II

Scrot

FRE 50, 72, 86.

Squitgarius

Recueil des actes de Charles le Simple, ed. P. Lauer (Paris: 1940), no. 18, p. 31 (17th March 899, Rheims).

Tunica

SFL 15

Yrasigus

Catalunya Carolíngia. Els Comtats d'Osona i Manresa D. 35. Date: 898-VII-23

 

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