Gmünd

Who holds it

Name

Philip of Swabia

Title

The king and duke as town lord

Family

Staufen

Confidence

high

de.wikipedia (Schwäbisch Gmünd); the 1188 pact.

Lord in 1200

The Staufen; the town officer of 1200 is not named.

Overlord

The king.

How things stand that morning

Held for Philip.

Charter

Its people are called cives in a Lorch abbey charter of 1162, the earliest mention of any Staufen town as a town; Barbarossa's pact of 1188 calls it burgum Gemunde.

Council

Not recorded for 1200.

Militia

Not recorded.

Walls and castle

Walls and towers implied by the 1188 burgum; built of local sandstone (date not pinned).

Trade and crafts

Market town of the Rems valley on the road from the Neckar to the Ries; among the larger payers in the royal tax list of 1241.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: 1162 and 1188 mentions documented.

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.