Sieradz

Who holds it

Name

The senior duke in Kraków (Mieszko III by the usual reckoning, see the krakow record) through his castellan

Title

Lord of the castle and market

Since

see lord_1200

Confidence

medium

Lord in 1200

The senior duke in Kraków (Mieszko III by the usual reckoning, see the krakow record) through his castellan

How things stand that morning

Part of the senior province on 1 January 1200: it follows Kraków (Mieszko III on the usual reckoning; Leszek's regents on the other). Not Greater Poland's own ground.

Charter

None. No town law in 1200: the place is a ducal castle (gród) with a market settlement (suburbium) under ducal law.

Council

None: the castellan and the duke's officers judge, collect the market dues and tolls, and keep order.

Communities

The castle household and garrison.

Fairs and markets

None recorded.

Militia

None as a town body; the castle garrison and the knights of the castle district.

Walls and castle

Earth-and-timber castle.

Trade and crafts

Local market under the castle.

Where the sources disagree

• The assignment asks whether the Sieradz land is Mieszko's that winter: it is his only as part of the senior province if he holds Kraków; we give it the realm krakow (coordinate with mlp and maz).

Evidence: Seniorate membership from en.wikipedia; the holder follows the Kraków question.

Primary sources for Kraków (Mieszko III)

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.

• Chronicle of the Poles, by Master Vincent (Wincenty Kadłubek), Wincenty Kadłubek (about 1190 to 1208). Book 4 is a contemporary's account of the fight for the senior throne of Kraków. Read online
• The annals of the Kraków chapter and the other Polish annals (kept from the 11th century; the Kraków chapter annals continued to 1266). Short dated entries that fix the chronology Kadłubek blurs: the deaths of dukes and bishops, Mieszko the Old's captures of Kraków, Prussian raids on Masovia, church consecrations. Read online
• The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
• The Book of Census of the Roman Church, Cencius Camerarius (Cencio Savelli, later Pope Honorius III) (1192, with later additions). The papal rent roll: every church, monastery, town and kingdom that owed a census to Rome in 1192, diocese by diocese, with the sums, followed by lists of papal lands and castles, the ceremonial Ordo and copies of charters. Read online
• The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online