Talk:Capitulary of Quierzy

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Misses the point about land.

The article says that Capitulary of Quierzy was not a "legislative enactment" to prevent the King taking land from one family and giving it to another - and that is true. But is only true in the sense that hereditary land holding was accepted as a pre-existing old right. The point of the declarations was to accept that there were, unlike an old Roman Emperor, limits to the power of the ruler - that he could not, for example, change the doctrines of the church, or take land from one family and give it to another family. By accepting that there were legal limits on his power (that he was not an absolute ruler) Charles the Bald hoped to gain the support of powerful groups and individuals for himself and his descendants. 2A02:C7C:E183:AC00:9033:F464:45DD:8389 (talk) 22:22, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]