Amberg

Who holds it

Name

Bishop Timo of Bamberg; King Philip

Title

Bishop of Bamberg (ground lord), under the king's lordship (probable)

Confidence

low

Amberg (de.wikipedia)

Lord in 1200

The bishop of Bamberg, to whom Conrad II gave all the emperor's and the duke's rights in the place on 24 April 1034; the lordship over it is the Staufen's by 1200 (probable: the Nordgau passed from Barbarossa's heirs to the Wittelsbach in 1269).

Overlord

The king.

How things stand that morning

A market under Bamberg and the king on 1 January 1200.

Charter

First known town law of 1294: not yet a chartered town.

Council

None recorded.

Militia

Not recorded.

Walls and castle

Not pinned for 1200.

Trade and crafts

A major trading point for iron and iron ore, shipped down the Vils to Regensburg; salt comes back on the return trip.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The 1034 grant and the 1294 law are dated; the lordship in 1200 is inferred.

Primary sources for Staufen

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
• 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

23 more in the sources library for The Rhineland, the Low Countries and the Swiss Lands.