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:
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Dominico called Cacainbocte |
G. Marini (1805), I papiri diplomatici, Rome, Vol. I, n. 28, (Rome 955) |
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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 |
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Filosofrosius |
Codice diplomatico longobardo, II, doc. nos 113, 132, 179, 207. Dates: 754-767 |
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Gaufridus Bibens Solus |
Cartulaire noir de la cathédrale d’Angers, ed. Urseau (Paris 1908), p. 354 |
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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 |
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Gosbertus Tenens Mentulam |
Cart. de chapitre de Saint-Laud d'Angers, ed. A. Planchenault (Angers, 1903), no. 44 |
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Iohannesbonus Cacans Rabiam |
Codex Diplomaticus Cremonae, I, doc. no. 84 p. 108. Date: 1131 |
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Lithorx |
Codice diplomatico longobardo, I, doc. no. 37. Date: 725-726 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Oremus |
Redon charters nos, lxxxiv, xcviii (pp. 64, 74) |
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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 |
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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. |
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Catalunya Carolíngia, 2.ii, Els diplomes Carolingis a Catalunya, ed. R. d’Abadal i de Vinyals, (Barcelona, 2007), 312-314 |
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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 |
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FRE 50, 72, 86. |
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Squitgarius |
Recueil des actes de Charles le Simple, ed. P. Lauer (Paris: 1940), no. 18, p. 31 (17th March 899, Rheims). |
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Yrasigus |
Catalunya Carolíngia. Els Comtats d'Osona i Manresa D. 35. Date: 898-VII-23 |
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