Markvartici

Who he is

Name

Not pinned for 1200: the members of these years are not named in the sources reached

Title

Kindred of the founders of Hradiště abbey

Family

The kindred from which the later lords of Lemberk, Michalovice, Valdštejn and Vartenberk descend (de.wikipedia, Markwartinger).

Confidence

low

The foundation of the Cistercian abbey of Hradiště on the Jizera (Mnichovo Hradiště) by Markvart about 1144-1145 is the standard account (not re-checked here). de.wikipedia gives only the family's descendant houses.

Overlord

Ottokar I, king of Bohemia

What it holds

• Land on the middle Jizera round Hradiště (extent not pinned)
• Patronage of Hradiště abbey (Church map record)

How it was acquired

Inherited.

How things stand that morning

Not pinned beyond the kindred's presence on the Jizera.

Wealth

Land.

Places of note

• Hradiště abbey: Cistercian abbey founded by Markvart about 1144-1145 (standard account, not re-checked); the market of Mnichovo Hradiště grows up beside it in the mid-thirteenth century (first named 1279)

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Members and holdings in 1200 are not pinned; the drawing marks only the neighbourhood of their abbey.

On the map: Very approximate.

Primary sources for Kingdom of Bohemia (Ottokar I)

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
• 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
• Charters and letters of the kingdom of Bohemia, volume 2, 1198 to 1230 (documents of 1198 to 1230, edited 1912). The critical edition of every Bohemian and Moravian charter and letter from Ottokar I's accession to 1230.
• 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