Moissac

Who holds it

Title

Abbot of Moissac

Since

not pinned

Confidence

low

French and English Wikipedia name no abbot for these years.

What it holds

• Moissac: lordship of the town round the abbey, under the protection of the counts of Toulouse

How it was acquired

Royal protection from Louis the Pious's time, later replaced by the counts of Toulouse's.

How things stand that morning

Held, under comital protection.

Wealth

River trade at the meeting of the Tarn and the Garonne, the abbey's lands, and pilgrims on the road to Santiago.

Threats

• The count's power over the town
• Heresy in the county of Toulouse (in 1212 Simon de Montfort will besiege Moissac)

Advocates and rivals

The counts of Toulouse as protectors; Cluny as mother house.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The abbey's rank and the counts' protection are attested; the abbot and the division of power in the town in 1200 are not.

On the map: A disc over the town; the modern commune is much larger.

Primary sources for Toulouse

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 Saint-Martial of Limoges, Bernard Itier and other monks of Saint-Martial; Geoffrey of Vigeois for the earlier chronicle (Geoffrey's chronicle to 1184; Bernard Itier's notes about 1195 to 1225). Bernard Itier, librarian of Saint-Martial, kept dated notes through 1200 of what reached Limoges: Richard's death at Chalus in 1199, the viscounts of Limoges and the lords of the Limousin, John's passage through Aquitaine in 1200 and the affairs of Angouleme and the Lusignans, and the abbey's own elections and prices. Read online
• Deeds of the Counts of Barcelona, Anonymous (monks of Santa Maria de Ripoll) (first version 1162 to 1184; continued in the later 13th century; final version 1303 to 1314). The house chronicle of the counts of Barcelona.
• Documents of the French Royal Treasury of Charters, vol. 1 (755 to 1223) (755 to 1223; the archive was organised from the 1190s). The treaties and bonds the French crown kept in its own archive, printed in date order. Read online
• The Great Book of Fiefs, Various; compiled by Ramon de Caldes for Alfonso II of Aragon (compiled 1192 to 1194). The register of the count-king's feudal rights, finished a few years before 1200 and in use at Peter II's court: some 900 charters of homage, convention, oath, sale and marriage arranged by county and lineage, covering Catalonia, Roussillon, Cerdanya, Pallars, Urgell, the Carcassonne and Beziers lands of the Trencavels, Provence and Aragon.