Füssen

Who holds it

Name

Philip of Swabia (advocate)

Title

The bishop of Augsburg and the abbey of St Mang as landholders; the Staufen as advocates

Since

1191

Confidence

medium

de.wikipedia (Füssen).

Lord in 1200

The Staufen hold the advocacy over the Augsburg church's lands at Füssen since 1191 (from the Welfs); the abbey of St Mang is subject to the bishop.

Overlord

The king.

How things stand that morning

Under Staufen advocacy.

Charter

Town rights are assumed for 1286 or 1294.

Council

None recorded.

Communities

The monks of St Mang.

Militia

None recorded.

Walls and castle

The High Castle is of the late 13th century.

Trade and crafts

On the old Via Claudia Augusta towards Italy; goods move from pack-horses to boats here, the Lech being navigable below the falls; a salt road.

Primary sources for Staufen

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
• Annals of Jarloch (Gerlach), abbot of Milevsko, Jarloch of Milevsko (about 1200 to 1220). The last Bohemian narrative before 1200, continuing Vincentius of Prague. Read online

23 more in the sources library for The Rhineland, the Low Countries and the Swiss Lands.