A walled city at the foot of the Apennines on the road from Lucca to Florence and over the mountains to Bologna.
A second wall built in the twelfth century has quadrupled the enclosed area. Its churches carry the carved lintels of Gruamonte (Sant'Andrea, 1166; San Bartolomeo in Pantano, 1167); San Giovanni Fuorcivitas has been building since the mid-century, and the cathedral's bell tower is begun in 1199.
Who holds it
- Name
- The commune of Pistoia (a podestà from among its own citizens, or consuls; names for 1199-1200 not pinned)
- Title
- Lord of the town
- Confidence
- low
Dated monuments and statutes; officers not pinned.
Lord in 1200
The commune of Pistoia (a podestà from among its own citizens, or consuls; names for 1199-1200 not pinned)
Allies and rivals
See the realm record.
How things stand that morning
The commune holds the city; outside the Tuscan League.
Charter
Statutes of the consuls and of the podestà from the twelfth century survive (published as Statuti di Pistoia del sec. XII, 1882).
Council
Consuls, and from 1158 a podestà chosen from the citizens.
Communities
Not recorded in the sources we used.
Fairs and markets
Not recorded in the sources we used.
Militia
The city host; no numbers in our sources.
Walls and castle
The twelfth-century second wall.
Trade and crafts
Money-changing (it.wikipedia speaks of many money-changers' banks about 1200 and of merchants at the Flanders fairs); the mountain's iron and timber; the road trade.
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.
- From 1199Works on the cathedral bell tower (1199-1225).
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Dated monuments and statutes; officers not pinned.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.