Dagome Iudex
The Dagome Iudex (also Dagone iudex ) is a calendar entry, which is the summary of the contents of an earlier document, the corresponding original certificate has been lost. The document from the 11th century, was named after the mentioned in the opening words Iudex ( Lord Judge ) Dagome. It is preserved in several copies, including in the 1086/1087 resulting " Collectio canonum " of the Curia Cardinal Deusdedit that during the pontificate of Pope Gregory VII († 1085 ) had worked in Rome.
Dagome Iudex is regarded as an important source for the creation or recognition of a Polish state, which is not explicitly mentioned. It is estimated that in the registration of a monk from the years 1086/1087 a Schenkungsakt the Polish duke Mieszko I († 992 ) is described to the Apostolic See from the year 991, with the Piastenfürst his country the direct protection of the Pope assumed. At the Cracow Academy the instrument was called a donation Oda 's.
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The reference to a not present in the original and also before 1086 nowhere mentioned deed of a " Dagome Iudex " has led to much speculation. The Vatican copyist, but not the French, has added the remark that he does not know the people of this generation, assuming they were Sardinians.
One assumes, among other things, that this formal Schenkungsakt should secure the direct line of succession in Gniezno ( " Schinesghe " in the Vatican document or " Schignesne " in the copy of Cambrai ) for the minor children of Mieszko I. Mieszko ( jr. ) and Lambert against Bolesław I the Brave, Mieszko 's son from his marriage to Dubrawka. On the other hand, can be assumed that Bolesław had under former Slavic custom already get awarded with coming of age, his heir. The research is also considered possible that the donation was made to prepare for the Metropolitan Organization of the Church in Poland, which was actually carried out in the year 1000 in the act of Gniezno. The calendar entry contains the oldest geographical description of the political boundaries of the area of the Dagome 's ( also Dagone ) and Ote and provides the first known donation of a State to the Apostolic See. Since we know that Ote refers to Oda Haldensleben, it is believed that Dagome Mieszko I was and this is the territory of the Duke of Polans, who later became Poland is, although this name is not mentioned.
According to a hypothesis Duke Mieszko was I. (Latin Mesco ) baptized with his baptism in the "Christian" name Scrooge, and the Italian copyist, the Central and Eastern European operations of the 10th and 11th centuries fully closed to the peoples and rulers of this region were both names had shortening combined into " Dagome ".
Other hypotheses are contradicted by an immigration of Poles from the Balkans.
In summary, however, two hypotheses for probably considered: On the one hand it may be a modification of copyists, the dux expression Mesco ego ("I, Duke Mieszko " ) have shortened or distorted to Dagome [ iudex ], on the other hand is a not precisely of traditional baptismal name Duke Mieszko, 966 who converted to the Catholic faith, into consideration as well as a shortening combination of his Christian name and his pagan name Mieszko, which is known from other sources.