City · County of Forcalquier · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Gap

Episcopal city of the Gapencais, the county's Alpine capital.

Who holds it

Name
The bishop of Gap
Title
Lord of the town
Confidence
medium

Lord in 1200

The bishop of Gap, with the count of Forcalquier's comital rights

How things stand that morning

Bishop and count of Forcalquier; given to the Dauphin with the Gapencais in 1202.

Trade and crafts

Alpine market and transhumance.

Primary sources for Forcalquier

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.

  • Deeds of the Counts of Barcelona, Anonymous (monks of Santa Maria de Ripoll) (first version 1162 to 1184; continued in the later 13th century; final version 1303 to 1314). The house chronicle of the counts of Barcelona.
  • The Great Book of Fiefs, Various; compiled by Ramon de Caldes for Alfonso II of Aragon (compiled 1192 to 1194). The register of the count-king's feudal rights, finished a few years before 1200 and in use at Peter II's court: some 900 charters of homage, convention, oath, sale and marriage arranged by county and lineage, covering Catalonia, Roussillon, Cerdanya, Pallars, Urgell, the Carcassonne and Beziers lands of the Trencavels, Provence and Aragon.

Sources and studies

  1. Guigues VI de Viennois, fr.wikipedia

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