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The Falkensteins: Losers and Winners in Medieval Bavaria

John B. Freed (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

519 Seiten

2023
Hiersemann, A (Verlag)
978-3-7772-2305-6 (ISBN)

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The Codex Falkensteinensis ist the oldest extant medieval family archive. Count Sigiboto IV of Falkenstein commissioned the codex before joining in 1166 Frederick Barbarossa's fourth Italian expedition and continued it after his return. It contains the earliest family portrait, the only book of conveyances (Traditionsbuch) from a secular lordship, the oldest accounts from the estate of a German lay lord, and the infamous "murder letter." It has been used to study agricultural, legal, and family history, but it has never been treated as a whole. Much of the analysis hinges on the placement of entries in the manuscript. The book explains why the Wittelsbachs were able to eliminate their erstwhile peers and consolidate their power.

John B. Freed is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of The Friars and German Society in the Thirteenth Century (1977); Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100–1343 (1995); and Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth (2016).

Contents

AbbreviationsIntroduction

Chapter One
The Welf Century
Sigiboto of Weyarn, Berengar of Sulzbach, and Henry V
The Bad Advocate
The Augustinian Canons
The Second Crusade
Frederick Barbarossa
The Salzburg Schism and the Wittelsbach Accession

Chapter Two
The Codex Falkensteinensis
Traditionsbücher
The Codex in 1166
The Codex after 1166
The German Translation
Pragmatic Literacy

Chapter Three
Ancestors: Imagined and Real
The Staufer and the Welfs
Babenbergs and Wittelsbachs
Lineages with Ninth-Century Antecedents
Andechses, Sulzbachs, and Vohburgs

Chapter Four
Forebears
The Hantgemal
Dilching, Weyarn, Neuburg, and Aibling
Hernstein, Grikkingin, and Wolfkerstein
Falkenstein
Hartmannsberg and Antwort

Chapter Five
The Patriarch
Hildegard of Mödling
Herrand II
The Wicked Uncle
Rudolf of Piesting
Sons and Daughters
Illegitimate Sons

Chapter Six
Lords, Vassals, Friends, and Unfree Retainers
Fiefs and Vassals Reconsidered
Friends
Unfree Retainers

Chapter Seven
The Agricultural Foundation
The Offices
The Problem of the Fiefs
The Income from the Advocacies
The Renders
Wine
Monetary Payments

Chapter Eight
The End of the Dynasty
Duke Louis I, the Kelheimer
Otto II
The LegacyConclusion

Genealogies
Illustrations
Maps
Bibliography
Unprinted Sources
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters ; 72
Zusatzinfo	mit 14 Stammbäumen, 17 Abbildungen und 4 Karten
Verlagsort	Stuttgart
Sprache	deutsch
Maße	175 x 245 mm
Gewicht	1293 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Schlagworte	Agricultural practices • Codex Falkensteinensis • extinction of lineages • family archives • Family history • feudalism • fiefs • Friendship • German nobility • Medieval Bavaria • Medieval Germany • ministerials (Dienstmänner) • Mittelalterliche Geschichte • renders • serfdom • vassalage • Wittelsbachs
ISBN-10	3-7772-2305-0 / 3777223050
ISBN-13	978-3-7772-2305-6 / 9783777223056
Zustand	Neuware