Auxerre

Who holds it

Name

Peter of Courtenay, count of Auxerre for life, and Bishop Hugh of Noyers

Title

Lords of the city

Since

Peter from 1184-1185; Hugh bishop since 1183

Confidence

high

Lord in 1200

Count Peter of Courtenay holds comital rights for life; Bishop Hugh of Noyers, a hard and litigious lord, holds the cathedral quarter and his own justice and quarrels with the count.

How things stand that morning

Count and bishop share and dispute the city.

Charter

No commune. Comital grants to the townsmen not pinned for 1200.

Communities

Abbeys of Saint-Germain and Saint-Marien; canons of Saint-Etienne; Jews not pinned.

Walls and castle

A new wall circuit was built in 1193 under Peter of Courtenay; comital castle.

Trade and crafts

The great wine port of the Yonne: Auxerre wine goes downstream to Paris and is famous in the north.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Wall date and holders from fr.wikipedia and the campaign notes.

Primary sources for Nevers

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.

• Chronicle of Robert of Auxerre, Robert of Auxerre (Robert of Saint-Marien) (about 1190 to 1211; continued at Saint-Marien to 1227). A universal chronicle whose last twenty years are contemporary and well informed from Burgundy and the Auxerrois. Read online
• The Acts of Philip Augustus, with Delisle's Calendar, Various (the French royal chancery) (1179 to 1223). The king's own charters and treaties for the year: the peace of Peronne with Baldwin IX in January 1200, the treaty of Le Goulet with John on 22 May 1200, the marriage settlement for Louis and Blanche, the privilege for the scholars of Paris, grants to towns, abbeys and Norman lords, and the first acts of the king's new acquisitions in the Vexin, Evreux and Berry. Read online