Châtillon

Who holds it

Name

Odo III, duke of Burgundy, and the bishop of Langres

Title

Lords of the town

Since

long-standing

Confidence

medium

Lord in 1200

Shared between the duke (castle and the bourg) and the bishop of Langres (the old castrum and church); Philip Augustus took it in 1186 during the Vergy war and gave it back.

How things stand that morning

Shared lordship.

Charter

None: an attempt to form a commune fails in 1208.

Communities

Canons of Saint-Vorles, where Bernard of Clairvaux went to school; the abbey of Notre-Dame.

Walls and castle

Ducal castle and episcopal castrum above the Seine springs.

Trade and crafts

The upper Seine and the road from Champagne (Troyes, Bar-sur-Seine) to Dijon.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: 1186 and 1208 from Petit via fr.wikipedia; the shares are given in outline.

Primary sources for Burgundy

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
• Deeds of Philip Augustus, Rigord (about 1186 to 1206, in stages). The French court's own chronicle for the year, from the monk of Saint-Denis who called himself the king's chronographer. Read online
• The Conquest of Constantinople (Villehardouin), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (about 1207 to 1213). Opens with the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly and the tournament at Ecry (28 November 1199) where Theobald III of Champagne and Louis of Blois took the cross, then the taking of the cross by Baldwin of Flanders, Hugh of Saint-Pol, Geoffrey of Perche and others through early 1200, the assemblies at Soissons and Compiegne in 1200, and the six envoys sent to Venice in the winter of 1200 to 1201. Read online
• Documents of the French Royal Treasury of Charters, vol. 1 (755 to 1223) (755 to 1223; the archive was organised from the 1190s). The treaties and bonds the French crown kept in its own archive, printed in date order. 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