peter erhart to be able to finance a trip to Rome.11 In addition to 70solidi ingoldand silver, she received five horses together with pack saddles, furs, and blankets from Otmar, on a 9th November between 743 and 746. A contemporaneous copy of the document, with its folded format, almost gives the impression of a passport, which was to assure her unhindered passage through Lombard Italy, due to her financial security and pious intentions.12 Beata’s attachment to Rome was already expressed in her choice of patrons for her church on the island of Lützelau. In addition to the mother of God and the Frankish saints Martin and Leodegar, she also had her church consecrated to the apostle prince Peter and his supposed daughter Petronilla.13 Such an illustrious crowd of saints could probably only be gathered with the support of a nearby monastery, which is why the monastery of Reichenau must be considered as an intermediary. The St Gall Abbot was perhaps more liquid at this point than his counterpart Arnefrid of Reichenau, who was also present at Benken on Lake Zurich.14 There is no hint of a pious intent in Beata’s sales transaction, which is why it might have been an attempt to win over the Pope as a mediator between the expansive emperors of the Carolingian houses and the Alemannic aristocracy.15 However, Beata and her husband Lantolt probably both died in Italy, because only a little later her son Lantbert donated his inherited property to the Monastery of St Gall for her salvation, which henceforth guaranteed his livelihood.16 The political explosiveness of these transactions is later reflected in the smear campaign against Abbot Otmar, which ended with his deposition and death in 759, and in the incorporation of the estates into the fiscal district of Zurich in the time of Abbot Johannes, between 760 and 780.On15February 821, reparation was made in Aix-la-Chapelle by Louis thePious.17 He restored thevilla Uznach, quam Pieta et Lanprehtus filius eius 11 Erhart 2013, n. 11. 12 Erhart 2013, n. 11a. 13 Erhart 2013, n. 10. 14 On the provenance of the 70solidi cf. Erhart 2020, p. 104 note 53. 15 Innes 2009, p. 306. 16 Erhart 2013, n. 13. 17 Erhart 2013, n. 270. 133
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