Dol

Who holds it

Name

Not pinned: Jean de La Mouche's rule ends in 1199; Jean de Lizaunet is bishop from about 1200 (probably 1203)

Title

Bishop of Dol

Since

not pinned

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia gives Jean de La Mouche (1190-1199) and then Jean (VI) de Lizaunet from about 1200, probably 1203, to 13 November 1231. On 1 January 1200 the see may be vacant or held by a bishop-elect.

What it holds

• Dol: lordship of the town (the bishop's regaires)
• Enclaves of the see of Dol scattered across northern Brittany (not detailed here)

How it was acquired

Old episcopal lordship; Dol's diocesan boundaries go back to King Nominoe in the ninth century.

How things stand that morning

Held, with the see itself between bishops.

Wealth

Dues of the town and its marsh lands, and pilgrim traffic to the cathedral of Saint-Samson.

Threats

• A vacancy or new bishop just after the loss of the metropolitan claim
• War on the Norman and Breton border

Advocates and rivals

The archbishop of Tours, victorious at Rome in 1199; the lay lords of Dol and Combourg; the ducal regime of Constance and the young Arthur.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The 1199 bull is well attested; the bishop on 1 January 1200 and the extent of the regaires are not.

On the map: Only the town is drawn; the enclaves are not.

Primary sources for Brittany

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicles of the Churches of Anjou (Saint-Aubin, Saint-Serge, Saint-Florent and others), Various (monks of Angers and the Loire) (11th to 13th centuries; the Saint-Aubin annals run to the 1220s). The Angevin houses' own annals of the succession crisis in their city: Arthur received at Angers in 1199 with Constance and the Breton and Angevin barons, John's counter-moves, the defection of William des Roches and the Angevin lords to John, and the peace of 1200 that left Arthur John's vassal. Read online
• The Great Chronicle of Tours, Anonymous (a canon of Saint-Martin of Tours) (about 1227). The Loire valley's view of the Angevin succession. Read online
• History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England, Anonymous of Bethune (a clerk in the household of Robert VII of Bethune) (about 1220). A Flemish lord's clerk writing twenty years on, with a soldier's interest in who fought whom. Read online
• The Acts of Philip Augustus, with Delisle's Calendar, Various (the French royal chancery) (1179 to 1223). The king's own charters and treaties for the year: the peace of Peronne with Baldwin IX in January 1200, the treaty of Le Goulet with John on 22 May 1200, the marriage settlement for Louis and Blanche, the privilege for the scholars of Paris, grants to towns, abbeys and Norman lords, and the first acts of the king's new acquisitions in the Vexin, Evreux and Berry. Read online