Gützkow

Who he is

Name

not pinned (Bartholomew, son of Wartislaw Swantiboriz, is castellan of Gützkow in 1219)

Title

castellan of Gützkow for the dukes

Since

1198-99, when the dukes won the land back from Rügen (not pinned)

Born

not pinned

Family

see Swantiboriz castellans

Confidence

low

de.wikipedia Grafschaft Gützkow; fmg.ac (Bartholomeus castellanus de Chozcow, 9 November 1219)

Overlord

the dukes of Pomerania

What it holds

• Gützkow castle and its land
• forest toward Eldena (half given to Eldena by Jaromar in 1207)

How it was acquired

Won back from Rügen in 1198-99 (not pinned).

Allies and rivals

Rival claimant: Jaromar I of Rügen.

How things stand that morning

Held for the dukes; Rügen still claims it (Jaromar gives Eldena land toward Gützkow in 1207).

Wealth

Castle dues; forest.

Military

Gützkow castle.

Threats

• Rügen's claim

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. 1212-1249 (after this year)The Salzwedel advocates (Jaczo I) appear and later take the title of count of Gützkow.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Holder in 1200 inferred from the 1198 change and the 1216-19 confirmations.

On the map: Small; the forest toward Eldena and the line along the Ryck are not pinned.

Primary sources for Pomerania

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.

• Chronicle of the Slavs, by Arnold of Lübeck, Arnold of Lübeck (about 1209 to 1210). Arnold continues Helmold and writes from Lübeck, close to Danish, Welf and Baltic affairs. Read online
• Chronicle of the Slavs, by Helmold of Bosau, Helmold of Bosau (about 1167 to 1172). Background only. Read online
• 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
• Short history of the kings of Denmark; The Law of the Retainers, Sven Aggesen (about 1185 to 1188). A short Latin history of the Danish kings to Knud VI's Pomeranian victory of 1185, with the Lex castrensis, Sven's version of the law of the royal household. Read online
• The saga of the descendants of Knut (the kings of Denmark) (about 1250 to 1260). An Icelandic kings' saga of Denmark that draws on Saxo and Danish tradition and ends in 1187 with Knud VI and Absalon's Wendish wars. Read online
• Pomeranian charter book, volume 1, 786 to 1253 (documents of 786 to 1253, edited 1868). All known charters for Pomerania and Rügen to 1253. 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