Albi

Who holds it

Name

Bishop William Peyre (Church map); Raymond Roger Trencavel as viscount

Title

Bishop of Albi, with the viscount

Since

Bishop since 1185

Confidence

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Lord in 1200

The bishop is lord of the city, sharing rights with the Trencavel viscount; the count of Toulouse is overlord of the viscounty.

How things stand that morning

Shared episcopal and viscountal lordship.

Charter

Not pinned; consuls appear in the thirteenth century (as usually stated).

Communities

Cathar believers and a Cathar bishop (campaign notes).

Walls and castle

The bishop's town above the Tarn and the bridge (eleventh century); the great brick cathedral is later.

Trade and crafts

The Tarn bridge and market; woad later.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Institutions in 1200 not found.

Primary sources for Trencavel

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.

• Deeds of the Counts of Barcelona, Anonymous (monks of Santa Maria de Ripoll) (first version 1162 to 1184; continued in the later 13th century; final version 1303 to 1314). The house chronicle of the counts of Barcelona.
• The Great Book of Fiefs, Various; compiled by Ramon de Caldes for Alfonso II of Aragon (compiled 1192 to 1194). The register of the count-king's feudal rights, finished a few years before 1200 and in use at Peter II's court: some 900 charters of homage, convention, oath, sale and marriage arranged by county and lineage, covering Catalonia, Roussillon, Cerdanya, Pallars, Urgell, the Carcassonne and Beziers lands of the Trencavels, Provence and Aragon.