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ARCHCHANCELLOR (See also:Lat. Archicancellarius; Ger. Erz kanzler) , or See also:chief See also:chancellor, a See also:title given to the highest dignitary of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire, and also used occasion-ally during the See also:middle ages to denote an See also:official who supervised the See also:work of chancellors or notaries. In the 9th See also:century See also:Hincmar, See also:archbishop of See also:Reims, in his work, De ordine palatii et regni, speaks of a summus cancellarius, evidently an official of the See also:court of the Carolingian emperors and See also:kings. A See also:charter of the See also:emperor See also:Lothair I. dated 844 refers to Agilmar, archbishop of See also:Vienne, as archchancellor, and there are several other references to archchancellors in various See also:chronicles. This See also:office existed in the See also:German See also:kingdom of See also:Otto the See also:Great, and about this See also:time it appears to have become an See also:appanage of the archbishopric of See also:Mainz. When the Empire was restored by Otto in 962, a See also:separate See also:chancery seems to have been organized for See also:Italian affairs, and See also:early in the 11th century the office of archchancellor for the kingdom of See also:Italy was in the hands of the archbishop of See also:Cologne. The theory was that all the imperial business in See also:Germany was supervised by the elector of Mainz, and for Italy by the elector of Cologne. However, the duties. of archchancellor for Italy were generally discharged by See also:deputy, and after the virtual separation of Italy and Germany, the title alone was retained by the elector. When the kingdom of See also:Burgundy or See also:Arles was acquired by the emperor See also:Conrad II. in 1032 it is possible that a separate chancery was established for this kingdom. However this may be, during the 12th century the elector of See also:Trier took the title of archchancellor for the kingdom of Arles, although it is doubtful if he ever performed any duties in connexion with this office. This threefold See also:division of the office of imperial archchancellor was acknowledged in 1356 by the See also:Golden See also:Bull of the emperor See also:Charles IV., but the duties of the office were performed by the elector of Mainz.

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form was See also:part of the constitution of the Empire until 1803 when the archbishopric of Mainz was secularized. The last elector, Karl Theodor von See also:Dalberg, however, retained the title of archchancellor until the See also:dissolution of the Empire in 1896. H. Reincke in Der alte Reichstag and der neue Bundesrat (See also:Tubingen, 1906) points out a marked resemblance between the See also:medieval archchancellor and the German imperial chancellor of the See also:present See also:day. See du Cadge, Glossarium, s. " Archicancellarius "; and CHANCELLOR.

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