The bad fame of bohemian king Wenceslas IV, which was deposed by the roman electors in 1400, derives also from their well composed deposition letter, since it became the most important explanatory reference to the contemporary historiographers in the Roman Empire. The article enlightens its different influence phases as well as the slow transformation of its legal arguments into a spectrum of defaming narratives.
The study deals with notarized 14th and 15th century copies from Bavarian and Austrian charter inventories. There are some terminological irregularities in the German speaking research literature that cohere with the definition of insert ("Transsumpt"), which cannot be harmonized with the late medieval linguistic usage. Subsequently, the article describes the different forms of notarized charter copies and tries to point out if they were sustainable according to roman and canonical process law.