Uppland folklands

Who holds it

Name

none named in any source for 1200

Title

the lawspeaker of Tiundaland, senior lawspeaker of the Svear, with the lawspeakers of Attundaland and Fjädrundaland

Since

not pinned

Confidence

low

en.wikipedia Tiundaland, Roslagen, Stones of Mora, Gamla Uppsala

Overlord

King Sverker II, king of the Svear by their acceptance

What it holds

• Tiundaland: the plains round Uppsala and the north to the Dalälven; its thing at Uppsala is the thing of all the Svear; Gästrikland was reckoned one of its hundreds (drawn separately, Gästrikland)
• Attundaland: the south-east, Sigtuna and the inlets of the Saltsjö
• Fjädrundaland: the west round Enköping
• The Roden: the coastal ship districts of Tiundaland and Attundaland that man the levy fleet
• The thing of all the Svear and the Disting fair at Old Uppsala; the Mora meadow

How it was acquired

Ancient folklands; their law is written down as the Uppland law in 1296.

Allies and rivals

The Svear had chosen the Erik line before: King Erik, killed at Uppsala in 1160 (at Östra Aros, in his legend), lies at Old Uppsala, and his son Knut ruled until 1195-96. They accepted Sverker of the Östergötland line without a fight. No source shows the folklands or their lawspeakers taking sides in 1200; a following for Knut Eriksson's sons in Uppland is a reasonable expectation, not a recorded fact.

How things stand that morning

At peace under King Sverker on 1 January 1200; no thing decision, rising or raid is recorded that winter. The thing of all the Svear and the Disting fair are due at Old Uppsala at the end of February or early March.

Wealth

Grain from the clay plains round Uppsala and Enköping, cattle and butter, fish and seal from the Roden, iron and furs brought in from the north; the Mälaren trade through Sigtuna and Östra Aros.

Military

The levy fleet (ledung): the Roden's ship districts each man and fit out a ship when the king calls the levy, which later law has proclaimed at the Uppsala thing; the jarl (Birger Brosa) leads it. No castles.

Threats

• Eastern raiders through the Saltsjö inlets into Mälaren, as in 1187
• A disputed succession, when the Svear's old ties to the Erik line meet Knut Eriksson's grown sons

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. late February or early March 1200The thing of all the Svear and the Disting fair at Old Uppsala.Depends on: Custom and peace. Stopped by: War or a rising.

Places of note

• Mora stones: where the Svear acclaimed their kings (first dated election 1275)

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The folklands, their things and the Roden are known from the Uppland law (1296), a list of 1314, Snorri and runestones; how they worked in 1200 is inferred. No lawspeaker is named for 1200.

On the map: One outline for the three folklands and the Roden, following the later province of Uppland without Gästrikland; the boundaries between the folklands are not drawn.

Primary sources for Sweden

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.

• 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
• The saga of King Sverre of Norway, Karl Jónsson and a continuator (begun about 1185 under Sverre's own supervision, completed about 1210 to 1220). The king's own authorised saga. Read online
• The sagas of the Baglers (about 1210 to 1220, in a shorter and a longer version). Begins with Sverre's death in March 1202 and the reigns of Hákon Sverrisson, Guttorm and Inge Bårdsson against the Bagler kings Erling Steinvegg and Philippus, so it has nothing for 1200 itself. 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
• 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
• The Swedish diplomatarium and its main register, SDHK (documents of 817 to 1540). The register of every known Swedish medieval letter, with full texts for the early centuries. Read online
• The law of the Gotlanders; The saga of the Gotlanders (Guta lag about 1220, Guta saga about 1220 to 1275; manuscript of about 1350). The law and the short history of the self-governing island. Read online