Uzès

Who holds it

Name

Guillaume de Vénéjan

Title

Bishop of Uzès

Since

1190

Confidence

high

Bishop from 1190 to 1204 in the French and English lists.

What it holds

• Uzès: a share of the lordship of the town (the shares in 1200 are not pinned)
• The episcopal mint, confirmed by Louis VII in 1156 (and again by Philip II in 1211)

How it was acquired

Royal confirmation of the coinage in 1156; the partial lordship is older and not pinned here.

How things stand that morning

Held in part.

Wealth

The mint and the bishop's share of the town's dues.

Threats

• The lay lords of the town
• Heresy and war in Languedoc

Advocates and rivals

The lay lords of Uzès; the counts of Toulouse, the great power of the Nîmes country.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The mint privilege is attested; the division of the town's lordship in 1200 is not.

On the map: The whole commune is drawn for a shared lordship whose shares are not pinned.

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.