City · County of Forcalquier · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Apt

Episcopal town of the Calavon valley under a bishop of the Agoult kin and his lay cousins.

Who holds it

Name
The bishop and the Agoult-Simiane
Title
Lord of the town
Confidence
medium

Lord in 1200

The bishop of Apt (Guiran of Viens, of the Agoult kin) with the Agoult and Simiane co-lords

How things stand that morning

Under its bishop and co-lords.

Walls and castle

Roman walls.

Primary sources for Forcalquier

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.

Sources and studies

  1. Agoult family, en.wikipedia

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