Limburg

Who he is

Name

Not pinned: the succession ran from the Konradiner through the Gleiberg-Luxembourg counts, the counts of Peilstein and the counts of Leiningen to the lords of Isenburg about 1219, without dates for the middle stages

Title

Advocates (Vögte) of St George's and holders of the castle of Limburg

Since

not pinned

Family

If Leiningen, the old comital house of the Palatinate (mrw record), whose line ends in 1220.

Confidence

low

de.wikipedia Limburg an der Lahn.

Overlord

The collegiate church of St George (founded 910 by Count Konrad Kurzbold) under royal protection since 940.

What it holds

• Limburg castle (late 12th century)
• The advocacy of St George's and its lands
• The town (see Limburg)

How it was acquired

By inheritance from the Konradiner advocates.

Allies and rivals

Neighbours of Diez, Runkel and Nassau.

How things stand that morning

Held by the advocate of the day (Peilstein or Leiningen; not pinned). Allegiance not pinned.

Wealth

The Lahn bridge on the Cologne-Frankfurt road (1160), the mint (about 1180), the market and later toll.

Military

Castle and town wall.

Threats

• Distant holders; the Isenburgers' claims

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. 1200No dated event found; Isenburg takes over about 1219.

Places of note

• Limburg castle and St George's: Castle and collegiate church on the rock.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The chain of holders is given without dates.

On the map: Only the town district; the church's scattered estates (Camberg and elsewhere) are not drawn.

Primary sources for Empire

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 Marbach (compiled to 1238, the section on 1198 to 1210 written in the early 13th century). Alsatian annals on the Staufen side of the Upper Rhine. Read online
• Annals of Reiner of Saint James, Liège, Reiner of Liège (1197 to 1230, kept year by year). Contemporary annals kept inside Liège. Read online
• Chronicle of Burchard of Ursberg, Burchard of Ursberg (about 1229 to 1230, reworked by Conrad of Lichtenau). Written a generation later by a fierce partisan of the Staufen and a critic of Innocent III. Read online
• Chronicle of Otto of St Blasien, Otto of St Blasien (about 1209 to 1210). A Swabian continuation of Otto of Freising written from the Staufen side. Read online
• Chronicle of Reinhardsbrunn; Chronicle of St Peter's, Erfurt (Erfurt chronicle in the 13th century; Reinhardsbrunn compilation about 1340 to 1349 from older annals). The two Thuringian chronicles. Read online
• 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
• 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
• Chronicle of Hainaut, Gislebert of Mons (about 1195 to 1196). Ends in 1195, so it has no 1200 entries, but it is the indispensable background for Flanders and Hainaut: the career of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut (VIII of Flanders), his union of the two counties, the settlement with Philip over Artois, the rights, castles, fiefs and vassals of Hainaut listed by a man who ran its chancery, and the youth of Baldwin IX, who held both counties in 1200. Read online

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