Town · County of Toulouse · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Muret

A castle-town of the counts of Comminges on the Garonne a few hours upstream of Toulouse, where the Louge joins the river.

It will receive written customs in 1203, and in 1213 it will give its name to the battle in which Peter II of Aragon is killed.

Who holds it

Name
Bernard IV
Title
Lord of the town: the count of Comminges
Since
1176
Confidence
high

See Comminges.

Lord in 1200

Bernard IV of Comminges.

Overlord

Count of Comminges (in the Toulouse sphere).

How things stand that morning

Comital town.

Charter

None yet: the customs of Muret date from 1203.

Walls and castle

Comital castle at the confluence of the Louge and the Garonne.

Trade and crafts

River traffic to Toulouse; market.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

  1. 1203 (after the year)Bernard IV grants the customs of Muret.Depends on: Peace. Stopped by: War.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Customs date from the bibliography of the Bernard IV article.

Primary sources for Toulouse

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.

  • Chronicles of Saint-Martial of Limoges, Bernard Itier and other monks of Saint-Martial; Geoffrey of Vigeois for the earlier chronicle (Geoffrey's chronicle to 1184; Bernard Itier's notes about 1195 to 1225). Bernard Itier, librarian of Saint-Martial, kept dated notes through 1200 of what reached Limoges: Richard's death at Chalus in 1199, the viscounts of Limoges and the lords of the Limousin, John's passage through Aquitaine in 1200 and the affairs of Angouleme and the Lusignans, and the abbey's own elections and prices. Read online
  • 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.
  • Documents of the French Royal Treasury of Charters, vol. 1 (755 to 1223) (755 to 1223; the archive was organised from the 1190s). The treaties and bonds the French crown kept in its own archive, printed in date order. Read online
  • 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. French Wikipedia, 'Bernard IV de Comminges'

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