The following is an 805 list of Frankish trading places with the Slavs as well as requirements regarding what things not to sell to the Slavs – perhaps a lesson of the events, almost two centuries earlier, relating to the merchant Samo. The list of the Frankish missi also shows the rough contours of the Frankish-Slav frontier at the beginning of the 9th century (some towns’ names are open to interpretation). The source is Boretius (43-44) (translation by King) (pictures from the Parisian Codex 4995):
Double Capitulary of Thonville
(Duplex Capitulare Missorum in Teodonis Villa Datum,
Diedenhofener Kapitular Karls des Grossen)
December 24, 805
To One and All
(Ad omnes generaliter)
23(7) “Concerning merchants who travel to the territories of the Slavs and the Avars: how far they ought to proceed with their merchandise – to wit, in the regions of Saxony, as far as Bardowick, where Hredi is to be in charge, and to Scheessel [or Scheßlitz?], where Madalgaud is to be in charge, and to Magdeburg [first mention of the city], where Aito is to be in charge; and to Erfurt where Madalgaud is to be in charge; and to Hallstadt, where Madalgaud again is to be in charge; to Forschheim [first mention of the city] and to Premberg [or Pfreimd?] and to Regensburg, where Audulf is to be in charge; and to Lorch, where it is to be Werinar. And that they are not to take arms and coats of mail to sell; and if they are discovered carrying them, all their stock is to be taken away from them, half going to the fisc, the other half being divided between the aforesaid missi and the discoverer.”
(De negotiatoribus qui partibus Sclavorum et Avarorum pergunt, quousque procedere cum suis negotiis debeant: id est partibus Saxoniae usque ad Bardenuwic, ubi praevideat Hredi; et ad Schlezla, ubi Madalgaudus praevideat; ad Magadoburg praevideat Aito; et ad Erpesfurt praevideat Madalgaudus; et ad Halazstat praevideat item Madalgaudus; ad Foracheim et ad Breemberga et ad Ragenisburg praevideat Audulfus, et ad Lauriacum Warnarius. Et ut arma et brunias non ducant ad venundandum; quod si inventi fuerint portantes, ut omnis substantia eorum auferatur ab eis, dimidia quidem pars partibus palatii, alia vero medietas inter iamdictos missos et inventorem dividatur).
The Ansegisi Abbatis Capitularium collection contains a similar list:
Here is a map with the place names (some based on guesses, as noted above):
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