Sax (Misox)

Who he is

Name

Heinrich I of Sax (about 1140/45 to before 1219) with his brother Albert I

Title

Free lords of Sax; sub-advocates for St Gall, Disentis and Pfäfers

Since

not pinned

Born

about 1140/45

Family

Brother Albert was in the following of Count Palatine Rudolf of Tübingen in 1188. Ulrich of Sax (about 1170/75-1220), a monk of St Gall, will be its abbot from 1204 and a prince of the Empire from 1207.

Confidence

medium

de.wikipedia Sax (Adelsgeschlecht); HLS Sax, von (not read).

Overlord

The king (Misox held as a Staufen fief); St Gall, Disentis and Pfäfers for the advocacies.

What it holds

• Hohensax castle (about 1200) and the Rhine valley estates round Sax, Frümsen and Gams
• Forstegg and Wartenstein castles
• The Misox (Mesocco and the valley below the San Bernardino), held since at least 1168
• Advocacies for St Gall, Disentis and Pfäfers

How it was acquired

Inheritance; Misox as a Staufen fief.

Allies and rivals

The Staufen and the Tübingen counts; St Gall's abbots, soon one of their own.

How things stand that morning

Holds the Rhine valley estates and the Misox. Staufen supporters (they hold Misox as Staufen fiefs): allegiance Staufen, medium confidence.

Wealth

The San Bernardino road through the Misox; Rhine valley estates. No figures.

Military

Hohensax, Mesocco castle. No numbers.

Places of note

• Mesocco castle: Castle of the Misox

Where the sources disagree

• de.wikipedia is inconsistent on Heinrich I's death (before 1219, yet enfeoffed in 1220).

Evidence: Names and Misox tenure well attested; the extent of the Rhine valley holdings in 1200 is not.

On the map: Approximate.

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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