A borgo on the Via Francigena between Lucca and the Lunigiana, grown with the road and dominated by the Benedictine abbey of San Pietro, whose abbot holds civil authority under the Holy See.
The hills round it bristle with small castles of Lombard-descended lords (Albiano and Orbicciano are dated 1183). Lucca attacks these castles about 1225, because they lean to Pisa and block the road to Motrone, and then rebuilds Camaiore as a planned town.
Who holds it
- Name
- The abbot of San Pietro di Camaiore holds civil authority in the borgo; the castles round it belong to their own lords (the nobles of Montemagno and Pedona, the viscounts of Corvaia and Vallecchia, the nobles of Bozzano, the canons of San Martino of Lucca)
- Title
- Lord of the town
- Confidence
- low
it.wikipedia gives the lordships and the c. 1225 offensive.
Lord in 1200
The abbot of San Pietro di Camaiore holds civil authority in the borgo; the castles round it belong to their own lords (the nobles of Montemagno and Pedona, the viscounts of Corvaia and Vallecchia, the nobles of Bozzano, the canons of San Martino of Lucca)
How things stand that morning
Not yet under Lucca; a patchwork of the abbey and castle lords.
Council
Not recorded in the sources we used.
Communities
Not recorded in the sources we used.
Fairs and markets
Not recorded in the sources we used.
Militia
Not recorded in the sources we used.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: it.wikipedia gives the lordships and the c. 1225 offensive.
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
8 more in the sources library for The Rhineland, the Low Countries and the Swiss Lands.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.