Written a generation later by a fierce partisan of the Staufen and a critic of Innocent III. For 1198 to 1201 Burchard sets out the double election, the princes' declaration of Speyer in May 1199, the pope's deliberation between Philip, Otto and the boy Frederick, and the papal decision for Otto in 1201, quoting documents. He adds Swabian detail on Philip's court and the Zähringen. The chronology is sometimes loose and the judgements are hostile to the papacy.
About this source
- Title
- Chronicon
- Author
- Burchard of Ursberg
- Author's dates
- Premonstratensian provost of Ursberg in Swabia from 1215; died 1230 or 1231
- Written
- about 1229 to 1230, reworked by Conrad of Lichtenau
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- world chronicle, with original matter from the 1120s to 1230
- Kind
- Chronicle
The chronicle survives in the form given it by Conrad of Lichtenau, Burchard's successor, who extended it to 1229 or 1230. Loud's translation is a working draft made available for study.