Strasbourg

Who holds it

Name

Conrad II of Hunenburg

Title

Bishop of Strasbourg, lord of the city

Since

1190

Born

not pinned

Family

Of the Strasbourg marshals of Hunenburg (seat near Neuwiller); a brother was put to death by Otto of Burgundy

Confidence

high

NDB/ADB on Konrad II. von Hunenburg

Lord in 1200

Bishop Conrad II, reconciled to Philip of Swabia since his forced submission in July or summer 1199.

How things stand that morning

Bishop's city in Philip's camp, under compulsion.

Wealth

Rhine trade and wine. No figures.

Military

Walls; burgher levy.

Threats

• The bishop's wish to change sides again (early 1201).
• Otto of Burgundy's feud (ends 13 January).

Charter

The bishop's town law of the 12th century, which fixes his officers (provost or Schultheiss, burgrave, toll-master, mint-master); a fuller town law follows in the early 13th century (date not pinned).

Council

A council of burgesses beside the bishop's officers takes shape about 1200 (first certain mentions in the early 13th century; not pinned for 1 January 1200).

Communities

Cathedral chapter; the poet Gottfried of Strasbourg is of this town and generation.

Militia

Burgher levy; in 1199 the burghers' pressure, not their arms, ended the siege.

Walls and castle

Walled city; suburbs burned in 1199.

Trade and crafts

Rhine shipping, Alsatian wine sent downriver, the market and mint.

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. 29 October 1202 (later course)Bishop Conrad dies.Depends on: Natural death. Stopped by: n/a

Where the sources disagree

• Philip's attack is July or summer 1199 (NDB, ADB), not summer 1198 as the campaign notes put it.

Evidence: The 1198-1199 events are attested; the council's first date is not pinned.

On the map: City and immediate suburbs.

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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