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Encyclopedia Britannica



MISSI DOMINICI

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 583 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MISSI DOMINICI , the name given to the officials commissioned by the Frankish kings and emperors to supervise the administration of their dominions. Their institution
dates
  from Charles Martel and Pippin the Short, who sent out officials to see their orders executed. When Pippin became king in 754 he sent out missi in a desultory fashion; but Charlemagne made them a regular part of his administration, and a
capitulary
  issued about 8o2 gives a detailed account of their duties. They were to execute justice, to enforce respect for the royal rights, to
control
  the administration of the counts, to receive the oath of allegiance, and to supervise the conduct and work of the clergy. They were to call together the officials of the
district
  and explain to them their duties, and to remind the people of their civil and religious` obligations. In short they were the direct representatives of the king or emperor. The inhabitants of the
district
  they administered had to provide for their subsistence, and at times they led the host to battle. In addition
special
  instructions were given to various missi, and many of these have been preserved. The districts placed under the missi, which it was their duty to visit four times a year, were called missatici or legationes. They were not permanent officials, but were generally selected from among persons at the court, and during the reign of Charlemagne personages of high
standing
  undertook this work. They were sent out in twos, an ecclesiastic and a layman, and were generally complete strangers to the district which they administered. In addition there were extraordinary missi who represented the emperor on
special
  occasions, and at times beyond the limits of his dominions. Even under the strong rule of Charlemagne it was difficult to find men to discharge these duties impartially, and after his death in 814 it became almost impossible. Under the emperor Louis I. the nobles interfered in the appointment of the missi, who, selected from the district in which their duties lay, were soon found watching their own interests rather than those of the central power. Their duties became merged in the
ordinary
  work of the bishops and counts, and under the emperor Charles the Bald they took
control
  of associations
1 The history of the practice of elevating the host seems to have arisen out of the custom of holding up the oblations, as mentioned in the Ordo Romanus (see above). The
elevation
  of the host, as at present practised, was first enjoined by Pope Honorius III. The use of the handbell at the
elevation
  is still later, and was first made general by Gregory XI.
2 The benediction is omitted in masses for the' dead.
The reading of the passage from John on days which had not a proper gospel was first enjoined by Pius V.for the preservation of the peace. About the end of the 9th century they disappeared from France and Germany, and during the loth century from Italy. It is possible that the itinerant justices of the English kings Henry I. and Henry II., the itinerant baillis of Philip
Augustus
  king of France, or the royal enqueteurs of St Louis originated from this source.
See G. Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte (Kiel, 1844) ; E. Bourgeois, Le Capitulaire de Kiersy-sur-Oise (Paris, 1885) ; V. Krause, Geschichte des Institutes der missi dominici in the Mittheilungen des Instituts far osterreichische Geschichtsforschung, Band XI. (
Innsbruck
 , 188o). Dobbert, Uber das Wesen and den Geschditskreis der missi dominici (Heidelberg, 1861); N. D. Fustel de Coulanges, Histoire des institutions politiques de l'ancienne France (Paris, 1889189o) ; L. Beauchet, Histoire de l'organization judiciaire en France, epoque franque (Paris, 1865).


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