Cambrai

Who holds it

Name

Peter of Corbeil, bishop of Cambrai and count of the Cambresis (imperial), since 1199; the castellan of Cambrai is John of Montmirail, lord of Oisy (Champagne researcher's record)

Title

Bishop and count

Confidence

high

Lord in 1200

Peter of Corbeil, bishop of Cambrai and count of the Cambresis (imperial), since 1199; the castellan of Cambrai is John of Montmirail, lord of Oisy (Champagne researcher's record)

Overlord

The emperor (a disputed throne)

How things stand that morning

The bishop's city, imperial, between Flanders, Hainaut and the king's Vermandois.

Charter

The commune of 1077, suppressed and restored more than once by bishops and emperors; its standing on 1 January 1200 is not pinned.

Council

Échevins and the bishop's officers.

Communities

No Jewish community is attested here in 1200; the count's Flanders had few or none. Lombard and Cahorsin moneylenders come later.

Fairs and markets

Markets.

Militia

Town militia.

Walls and castle

Walls; the bishop's castle and the castellan's tower.

Trade and crafts

Cloth, linen, Scheldt trade.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1200, not pinnedPeter of Corbeil is elected archbishop of Sens; John of Bethune, brother of William of Bethune, becomes bishop of Cambrai.Depends on: The Sens election and the pope's approval. Stopped by: Another choice at Sens.

Where the sources disagree

• Consistent with the campaign notes (Part 6 A): Peter of Corbeil, bishop of Cambrai since 1199, likely successor at Sens.

Evidence: The bishop is in the campaign notes; the commune's state is thin.

On the map: The tierra is the town's own banlieue or district, drawn from modern municipal units.

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

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