The bishop's city on the Altmühl, Willibald's see, under the bishop's lordship (the see itself is a Church map record).
On 5 February 908 King Louis the Child granted Bishop Erchanbald a market, a mint, a toll and the right to wall the place and build a castle; it is called a civitas on Bishop Heribert's coins (1022-42) and in a charter of 1080.
Who holds it
- Name
- Bishop Hartwig of Eichstätt (of the Grögling-Dollnstein house), with the counts of Grögling-Dollnstein as the see's advocates
- Title
- Lord of the town
- Confidence
- medium
Town history (de.wikipedia).
Lord in 1200
Bishop Hartwig of Eichstätt (of the Grögling-Dollnstein house), with the counts of Grögling-Dollnstein as the see's advocates
Allies and rivals
The bishop and his advocates (the same family).
How things stand that morning
The bishop holds the town and backs Philip (Speyer protest 28 May 1199). The town history dates the counts' advocacy rights in the town to 1205.
Charter
Royal privilege of 5 February 908 to the bishop (market, mint, toll, walls); no townsmen's charter.
Council
None recorded by 1200 (the town seal is first mentioned in 1256).
Communities
Jews recorded at least from the 13th century; not pinned for 1200.
Fairs and markets
Market by the 908 privilege; no fair dates found.
Militia
Not recorded.
Walls and castle
Walls by the right of 908; the bishop's castle.
Trade and crafts
Altmühl valley trade; the bishop's mint; stone of the Jura.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Town history (de.wikipedia).
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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Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.