Clam (Machland)

Who he is

Name

Ulrich of Clam-Velburg (dies 1217 on the Damietta crusade); whether he or a predecessor holds on 1 January 1200 is not pinned

Title

Counts of Velburg and Clam (Clam-Velburg line)

Since

Clam came to the Velburgs through Adelheid, heiress of Walchun of Machland, brother of Otto of Machland

Born

not pinned

Family

The Velburgs are a Bavarian Nordgau comital house (Velburg is bav's ground); the Clam line holds the inheritance of the lords of Perg and Machland's Walchun branch. Their Machland kin founded the abbeys of Baumgartenberg (Cistercian, 1141) and Waldhausen (Augustinian canons, 1147).

Confidence

low

de.wikipedia Burg Clam; de.wikipedia Riedmark (Machland lands transferred to the duke in 1218).

Overlord

Duke Leopold VI of Austria

What it holds

• Clam castle (two castles at Clam are named about 1150)
• Klingenberg castle
• The Machland plain round Saxen, Baumgartenberg and Mitterkirchen (extent not pinned)

How it was acquired

Inheritance through Adelheid of Machland.

Allies and rivals

Neighbours of the duke's Riedmark and Perg lands to the west.

How things stand that morning

Held by the Clam-Velburg counts on 1 January 1200 (holder's name not pinned for that year).

Wealth

Danube plain farms, forest clearing towards Bohemia, the Danube passage by the Strudel rapids at Grein.

Military

Clam and Klingenberg castles.

Places of note

• Clam castle: Recorded 1142

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Transfer dates known; the 1200 holder and extent are not.

On the map: Approximate extent.

Primary sources for Austria

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 Jarloch (Gerlach), abbot of Milevsko, Jarloch of Milevsko (about 1200 to 1220). The last Bohemian narrative before 1200, continuing Vincentius of Prague. Read online
• Annals of Schäftlarn and the Bavarian annals (12th and 13th centuries). Brief Bavarian annals. Read online
• The Austrian and Salzburg annals (kept in the 12th and 13th centuries, with continuations to the late 13th century). A family of monastic annals from Austria, Styria and Salzburg, printed together. 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
• 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
• Bavarian monuments: the charters of the Bavarian monasteries and bishoprics (charters from the 8th century onward, published 1763 to 1916). The great charter series of Bavaria, arranged by monastery and bishopric. Read online
• The political songs of Walther von der Vogelweide, 1198 to 1201, Walther von der Vogelweide (about 1198 to 1201). Three stanzas of the Reichston, composed between 1198 and 1201 after Walther left Vienna, lament the disorder of the double election and call on Philip to take the crown. 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