812: An Instruction from Charlemagne Concerning Immigrant Hispani

Abstract

In April 812, Charlemagne admonished a group of Frankish counts to treat the Hispani living in their domain fairly and to restitute to them the land which they had acquired through independent land development (aprisio). On the basis of this document, the article investigates the reasons for Iberian migratory movements into the neighbouring Frankish realm and places them within the context of Carolingian politics in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula.