1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARCHCHANCELLOR (Lat. Archicancellarius; Ger. Erzkanzler), or chief chancellor, a title given to the highest dignitary of the Holy Roman Empire, and also used occasionally during the middle ages to denote an official who supervised the work of chancellors or notaries. In the gth century Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, in his work, De ordine palatii et regni, speaks of a summits cancellarius, evidently an official at the court of the Carolingian emperors and kings. A charter of the emperor Lothair I. dated 844 refers t…
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