Ulm

Who holds it

Name

Philip of Swabia

Title

The king as town lord; the counts of Dillingen as advocates

Since

1196/1198

Family

Staufen

Confidence

high

de.wikipedia (Ulm).

Lord in 1200

The king (Philip); the advocacy (Reichsvogtei) is held by the counts of Dillingen (attested for the house; not pinned for Adalbert III in 1200). The king's officer in the town (Schultheiss or Ammann) is not named in the sources used.

Overlord

The king.

How things stand that morning

Held for Philip on 1 January 1200.

Charter

No charter of town foundation survives; town status grew by stages. de.wikipedia dates the raising to a town to 1181 and calls Ulm a royal town from 1184 (the later 'free imperial city' status must not be read back).

Council

Not recorded for 1200.

Fairs and markets

Not pinned for 1200.

Militia

Not recorded for 1200; in winter 1246 the town, then fully fortified, withstands Henry Raspe.

Walls and castle

The royal palace (Pfalz), rebuilt by the Staufen from 1140 after the town's destruction in 1134 by the Welf Henry the Proud's war.

Trade and crafts

The Danube crossing (a bridge is named in 1174) where the road from the Fils valley and the Geislinger Steige meets the river; later famous for fustian and linen (not for 1200).

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Key dates from de.wikipedia; officers in 1200 not named.

Primary sources for Staufen

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
• Annals of Jarloch (Gerlach), abbot of Milevsko, Jarloch of Milevsko (about 1200 to 1220). The last Bohemian narrative before 1200, continuing Vincentius of Prague. Read online

23 more in the sources library for The Rhineland, the Low Countries and the Swiss Lands.