The copper town of the Meuse under its cliff, centre of the brass and copper craft (dinanderie), facing Namur's Bouvignes a little downstream.
It was at Dinant that Namur ceded its right-bank lands to Theobald of Bar in July 1199 (France map).
Who holds it
- Name
- Albert of Cuyck
- Title
- Bishop of Liege
- Since
- 1194-1196
- Born
- Not pinned
- Family
- Cuijk
- Confidence
- medium
General accounts
Lord in 1200
The bishop (lord of the county of Dinant since the 11th century); the count of Namur keeps rights and builds his rival town of Bouvignes on the other bank (the details of Namur's rights in 1200 are not pinned).
How things stand that morning
The bishop's.
Council
Echevins under the bishop's officer.
Militia
Town levy; bitter rivalry with Bouvignes.
Walls and castle
The rock castle above the town.
Trade and crafts
Copper and brass ware (dinanderie) using Meuse calamine and imported copper; Meuse trade.
Where the sources disagree
- The France map anchors Dinant, Thuin and Couvin as 'empire'; they are the bishop of Liege's towns (realm liege).
Evidence: General accounts; no 1200 document checked.
Primary sources for Liege
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 Reiner of Saint James, Liège, Reiner of Liège (1197 to 1230, kept year by year). Contemporary annals kept inside Liège. 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
- Dialogue on Miracles, Caesarius of Heisterbach (about 1219 to 1223). Not a chronicle but a Cistercian's book of exempla, full of stories about Cologne, the Rhineland and the Low Countries around 1200: the throne war, usurers, heretics, crusade preachers, knights and townsmen, monks and recruits at Heisterbach, founded in 1189. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.