Nördlingen

Who holds it

Name

The bishop of Regensburg (a Church map record)

Title

Bishop of Regensburg (lord of the market)

Since

The Carolingian royal estate of Nordilinga (898) came to the see of Regensburg

Confidence

medium

de.wikipedia (Nördlingen).

Lord in 1200

The bishop of Regensburg; the town lies inside the Oettingen count's county of the Ries.

Overlord

The king.

How things stand that morning

The bishop's market on 1 January 1200.

Charter

Grew into a market under the bishop. In 1215 Frederick II acquires it for the crown, grants town rights, and the first wall is built: none of that has happened in 1200.

Council

None recorded.

Fairs and markets

The Whitsun fair is first named in 1219 (and Nuremberg merchants' exchange tables there in 1219); not pinned for 1200.

Militia

None recorded.

Walls and castle

Unwalled until 1215.

Trade and crafts

Market of the fertile Ries basin; a mint is implied by 1219.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The 1215 change is documented; the bishop's tenure is stated without detail.

Primary sources for Empire

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
• Chronicle of Hainaut, Gislebert of Mons (about 1195 to 1196). Ends in 1195, so it has no 1200 entries, but it is the indispensable background for Flanders and Hainaut: the career of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut (VIII of Flanders), his union of the two counties, the settlement with Philip over Artois, the rights, castles, fiefs and vassals of Hainaut listed by a man who ran its chancery, and the youth of Baldwin IX, who held both counties in 1200. Read online

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