Lübeck (bishop)

Who holds it

Name

Dietrich I (Theoderich)

Title

Bishop of Lübeck

Since

4 December 1186

Confidence

high

Bishop from 4 December 1186 to his death on 23 August 1210 (GCatholic). Nothing else is pinned in the sources consulted.

What it holds

• Eutin: the central seat of the bishop's 300 hides (town rights only about 1257)
• Bosau on the Great Plön lake
• Land near Oldenburg in Holstein, the original seat
• The cathedral precinct in Lübeck; the city itself is not his

How it was acquired

Count Adolf II of Holstein granted Bishop Gerold (1154-1163) 300 hides of land; Henry the Lion moved the see from Oldenburg to Lübeck about 1160.

How things stand that morning

Quiet. Lübeck and Holstein are about to fall under Danish rule (1201).

Wealth

Estate revenues and tithes of the colonised Wagrian land.

Threats

• The Danish advance into Holstein in 1201

Advocates and rivals

The counts of Holstein (Adolf III), overlords of the land around; the city of Lübeck. Full independence from Holstein was won only in 1274.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The endowment is well known (Höfe und Residenzen handbook); the holder's dates are from GCatholic.

On the map: The Oldenburg lands are not drawn (their extent is not pinned).

Primary sources for Holstein

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.

• Annals of Stade, by Albert of Stade, Albert of Stade (about 1240 to 1256). A world chronicle written at Stade in the 1240s from older Stade and Bremen annals. Read online
• Chronicle of the Slavs, by Arnold of Lübeck, Arnold of Lübeck (about 1209 to 1210). Arnold continues Helmold and writes from Lübeck, close to Danish, Welf and Baltic affairs. Read online
• Chronicle of the Slavs, by Helmold of Bosau, Helmold of Bosau (about 1167 to 1172). Background only. Read online
• The Danish annals of Lund, Ryd and other houses (12th and 13th centuries; Lund continued to 1307, Ryd to 1288). Short dated entries from Lund, the archbishop's seat, and from Ryd in Schleswig. Read online
• Deeds of the Danes, Saxo Grammaticus (about 1185 to 1208). Saxo was writing at Lund in 1200 under Absalon, who died in March 1201, and his last books are an insider's history of Valdemar I and Knud VI to 1185: the Wendish wars, the taking of Rügen, the submission of Pomerania in 1185, the Danish fleet, Absalon's power and the Danish quarrel with the Empire. Read online
• Charter books of Lübeck and of Hamburg (documents to 1226 (Lübeck vol. 1) and to 1300 (Hamburg vol. 1)). The charters of the two north German towns and of the archbishops of Bremen and Hamburg. Read online
• The Danish diplomatarium: charters and letters concerning Denmark, with Danish translation (documents of 789 to 1448; the online edition is continuing). Twenty-seven documents are dated to 1200: Innocent III's letters of February and March 1200 to Philip Augustus and Queen Ingeborg and his order for the interdict on France, Otto IV's letter to the pope expecting King Knud VI to move into Saxony, the reports of the legate Octavian and the French bishops on the lifting of the interdict in September, the pope's letters to Knud VI asking him to send advocates for his sister, Knud VI's ordinance on manslaughter for Skåne of 28 December 1200, and private gifts to Roskilde and Næstved. Read online