St Maximin

Who holds it

Name

Conrad

Title

Abbot of St Maximin

Since

attested 1177

Confidence

medium

Abbot Conrad is attested in 1177 and 1200; his successor Bartholomäus is attested in 1201 and 1207. Conrad is therefore the likely abbot on 1 January 1200, though the date of the change is not pinned.

What it holds

• The abbey and its immunity outside the north wall of Trier
• Estates and villages such as Kenn near Trier, Weimerskirch (given 723) and Mamer (960) in the Luxembourg country, Münsterappel and Guntersblum in Rhenish Hesse (893, 897), Norheim (962), and Uhler (first named in a charter of 1200)

How it was acquired

Merovingian and Carolingian royal gifts (723, 893, 897), Ottonian gifts (960, 962).

How things stand that morning

Conrad holds an independent abbey on Trier's doorstep, with the archbishop watching.

Wealth

Rents and wine from scattered estates; the abbey's relics and church at Trier.

Threats

• Trier's claim to the abbey
• Luxembourg's advocacy

Advocates and rivals

The archbishop of Trier, who wants to subject the abbey; the counts of Luxembourg, its old advocates.

Places of note

• Kenn: Abbey estate near Trier (893)
• Mamer: Abbey estate (960)
• Guntersblum: Abbey estate in Rhenish Hesse (897)

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The abbots and estates are attested in the abbey's charters as listed in the encyclopedia; the estates are scattered manors and are not drawn.

On the map: Only the abbey itself is drawn; its villages are scattered manors and are shown as points.

Primary sources for Trier

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.

• Royal Chronicle of Cologne (in stages from about 1175 to about 1250; the section on 1198 to 1220 written soon after the events). The fullest German narrative of the throne war from the Welf and Cologne side. Read online
• Deeds of the archbishops of Trier, continuations (continuations written in the 13th century). The Trier house history for Archbishop John I (1190 to 1212), who held the Moselle between the two kings. Read online
• Regesta Imperii V: calendar of the acts of Philip, Otto IV and Frederick II, 1198 to 1272 (calendar of documents of 1198 to 1272, published 1881 to 1901). A dated calendar of every known act of King Philip and King Otto IV, with the acts of popes and princes that bear on the Empire. Read online
• Register of Innocent III on the affair of the Roman Empire, Innocent III and the papal chancery (1198 to 1209, compiled as a separate register at the curia). The pope's own file on the German throne war: letters to and from Philip, Otto, the German princes and bishops, and the famous Deliberatio of late 1200 or early 1201 in which Innocent weighs the claims of Frederick, Philip and Otto before deciding for Otto. Read online
• The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online
• Constitutions and public acts of the emperors and kings, volume 2, 1198 to 1272 (documents of 1198 to 1272, edited 1896). The public documents of the throne war in full text: the election notices of 1198, the princes' declaration of Speyer of 28 May 1199 to Innocent III, the pope's replies, Philip's and Otto's letters and promises, and the imperial acts of 1200 and 1201 including Otto's promises at Neuss in June 1201. Read online
• Dialogue on Miracles, Caesarius of Heisterbach (about 1219 to 1223). Not a chronicle but a Cistercian's book of exempla, full of stories about Cologne, the Rhineland and the Low Countries around 1200: the throne war, usurers, heretics, crusade preachers, knights and townsmen, monks and recruits at Heisterbach, founded in 1189. Read online