Coimbra

Who holds it

Name

Sancho I (the crown); the alcaide on 1 January 1200 is not pinned

Title

Royal town under the king's alcaide or tenente

Confidence

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Lord in 1200

The crown: the king's usual residence. The alcaide on 1 January 1200 is not pinned.

Overlord

Sancho I of Portugal

What the town holds

• The city, palace and bridge on the Mondego
• The termo of the lower Mondego country

How things stand that morning

Royal capital in practice; held.

Wealth

The court's spending; the Mondego farmland; the canons' and bishop's estates.

Military

Walls and the alcáçova. No figures.

Threats

• Almohad raids up the coast (as in 1191)

Fuero

Count Henry's charter to the townsmen (1111); foral of Afonso Henriques, May 1179.

Council

A royal concelho with its judges; the king, the bishop and the canons of Santa Cruz are all great lords inside the city.

Communities

Christians with a strong Mozarab tradition; a Jewish community; some Muslims (thin for 1200).

Fairs and markets

Not pinned for 1200.

Militia

Cavaleiros-vilãos and foot under the foral. No figures.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Standard facts; Dulce's burial from FMG; 1191 raid from the campaign page.

On the map: Termo approximated by seeds; Montemor-o-Velho, Soure (Templar), Penela and Lousã are separate.

Primary sources for Portugal

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 Toledo and other short Iberian annals (12th and 13th centuries; Anales Toledanos I to 1219). Florez's volume 23 gathers the short annals of the peninsula. Read online
• Chronicle of the World (Lucas of Tuy), Lucas de Tuy (1236, for Queen Berenguela). The Leonese counterpart to Rodrigo, written at San Isidoro for Berenguela. Read online
• Historical Monuments of Portugal: Writers (Annals of King Afonso, Chronicon Conimbricense, Chronica Gothorum and others) (12th to 15th centuries). The Portuguese annals in one volume. Read online
• Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile, Anonymous, probably Juan of Osma, chancellor of Castile (about 1223 to 1239). The chancellor's chronicle of Alfonso VIII's reign, detailed from the 1190s. Read online
• The Garden of Pages: a History of the Kings of the Maghreb and of the City of Fez, Ibn Abi Zar al-Fasi (completed in 1326 at Fez, for the Marinid sultan Abu Said Uthman). The Almohad chapters give a brisk dated narrative of al-Mansur's death and burial, al-Nasir's accession and the Banu Ghaniya troubles, with the kind of detail (coinage, public works at Fez and Rabat, prices, plagues) that a Fez compiler cared about, and the annals of Fez supply the city's governors and markets. Read online
• The Wondrous Account of the History of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi (about 1312, at Marrakesh). The Almohad section is the fullest year-by-year narrative of the caliphate around 1200: the last campaigns and the death of Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur in January 1199, the accession of his son Muhammad al-Nasir, the renewed war of the Banu Ghaniya in Ifriqiya under Yahya ibn Ishaq and his ally Qaraqush, the Almohad losses of Mahdia and Tunis a few years later, and al-Nasir's reconquest of Ifriqiya in 1205 to 1206 followed by the appointment of Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs as governor. Read online
• History of the Affairs of Spain, Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada (completed 1243). The archbishop's history of the peninsula, written forty years on by a Navarrese who served Castile. Read online
• The Gift of the Imamate, Ibn Sahib al-Sala (Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad al-Baji) (late twelfth century; the surviving part covers 1159 to 1173). The only Almohad court chronicle written from inside the administration, by a chancery secretary who travelled with the caliphs Abd al-Mu'min and Abu Yaqub Yusuf.

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