Ratingen

Who holds it

Name

The count of Berg (inferred)

Title

Lord

Confidence

low

Lord in 1200

The count of Berg (inferred from the later town charter of 1276).

How things stand that morning

Berg's (inferred).

Charter

Later (1276).

Walls and castle

Later.

Trade and crafts

Farming.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Later status.

Primary sources for Berg

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.

• 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
• Dialogue on Miracles, Caesarius of Heisterbach (about 1219 to 1223). Not a chronicle but a Cistercian's book of exempla, full of stories about Cologne, the Rhineland and the Low Countries around 1200: the throne war, usurers, heretics, crusade preachers, knights and townsmen, monks and recruits at Heisterbach, founded in 1189. Read online