Heilbronn

Who holds it

Name

Not pinned (the counts of Calw, several monasteries and other lords hold the manors)

Title

Divided lordship

Confidence

low

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Lord in 1200

Not pinned: the old royal court had split into manors held by the counts of Calw, monasteries and others; Staufen allods lie close by at Sontheim, Flein and Nordheim (1188).

Overlord

The duke and king.

How things stand that morning

A market village on 1 January 1200.

Charter

Not yet a town: first called oppidum in 1225; town charter and council only in 1281.

Council

None (first named 1281).

Fairs and markets

A market from about 1050.

Militia

None recorded.

Walls and castle

Unwalled in 1200 (oppidum in 1225).

Trade and crafts

A Neckar port from about 1140; start of the salt road to Hall.

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

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