Town · The free Frisian lands · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Dokkum

Market and pilgrimage place of Oostergo, where St Boniface was killed in 754, with an abbey and an old mint.

Who holds it

Name
No lord: Oostergo's own
Title
Lord of the town
Confidence
medium

Lord in 1200

No lord: Oostergo's own

How things stand that morning

Frisian.

Charter

None yet (1298)

Trade and crafts

Market, cattle, sea trade

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: General knowledge.

Primary sources for Frisia

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 Egmond (12th century to about 1205). The house annals of Egmond, the counts of Holland's abbey, and the main native source for Holland around 1200. Read online
  • Chronicle of the abbots of Wittewierum (Bloemhof), Emo of Wittewierum (from 1219 to 1237, continued by Menko to 1273). The chronicle opens only in 1204 with the founding of Emo's Premonstratensian house in the Groningen Ommelanden, so it has nothing for 1200 itself. Read online

Sources and studies

  1. Friesische Freiheit (de.wikipedia)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.