The counts of Sulz on the upper Neckar held the count's high justice in the Baar, the plateau between the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura around the sources of the Danube, until 1282, when it passed to the Fürstenberg.
In 1200 the Baar is a mosaic: the Zähringen town of Villingen, Reichenau and St Georgen lands, small lords at Hüfingen, Geisingen and Blumberg; when the Sulz counts first held the county is not pinned.
Who he is
- Name
- Not pinned for 1200 (a Hermann of Sulz gave the Baar back to King Rudolf in 1282)
- Title
- Count of Sulz, holding the count's rights in the Baar
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not pinned
- Family
- Not pinned.
- Confidence
- low
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Overlord
The king.
What it holds
- Sulz on the Neckar
- The count's rights in the Baar (high justice over others' land)
Allies and rivals
The Zähringen at Villingen.
Wealth
No figures.
Military
No numbers.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The source gives only the 11th-century appearance of the Sulz counts and the 1282 transfer.
On the map: The Baar is drawn as the count's jurisdiction, not as his land.
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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Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.