testaments in premyslid bohemia immovable property. Hroznata determined clearly which estates would devolve upon the canonry or the relatives permanently, and which should remain his in case he returned from the crusade. Hroznata appointed as the temporary administrator of all his estates the abbot of Teplá, who was also charged with paying his debts. At the same time, he placed the abbot and his companions under the protection of an un-known nobleman, Beneš, a stipulation which can be interpreted as Beneš being entrusted with the exercise of founding rights.18 Hroznata then had the document sealed with the seals of the Prague church, the Bohemian duke, and his own.The Bohemian duke and bishop of Prague,Henry Břetislav,19 then confirmed Hroznata’s last will with all details by his own deed.20 In 1227, a member of another leading noble family Hrabišici, Kojata, the son of the highest chamberlain of the Czech kingdom Hrabiš,21 who had no male descendants, appointed Christ as his heir.22 Therefore, he bequeathedin testamento a portion of his estates to the Prague episcopal church, another portion to the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre at Zderaz in Prague, and the other properties to the Benedictine monastery in Opatovice. His wife Vratislava was entitled to keep until her death seven villages that were bequeathed to the Zderaz Monastery. Kojata willed some other holdings to his relatives, subjects, and servants. The testament thus again included the entire property of Kojata. Kojata invited high ecclesiastical and secular officials to witness his declaration. He also affixed his seal to the charter, and asked the bishop of Prague to attach his. It remains unclear why he did not ask the king to do the same, since 306 18 Cf. Kubín 2000, p. 172. 19 The Bishop of Prague, Henry Břetislav (r. 1182–1197), seized the Bohemian throne in 1193 with the support of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and thus held both the episcopal and monarchical offices. 20 Friedrich 1904–1907, no. 357, pp. 325–327. Cf. Štachová 2011, pp. 38–39. In the confirmation, legal historians have detected turns of Roman legal terminology, but it is only a matter of form, the use of a formula, that entered here through a notary from the monastery of Plasy, who stylized the document. Cf. Kincl 1978, p. 306; Štachová 2011, p. 39. 21 For the Hrabišici family cf. Velímský 2002. 22 Friedrich 1912, no. 303, p. 301. The charter does not contain the day’s date, but it does state the hour. For Kojata’s deed and other documents related to Kojata’s will, cf. especially Kincl 1978; Velímský 2002, pp. 40–44; Štachová 2011, pp. 39–40.
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