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

Abbreviations
Introduction

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 Legacy
Conclusion

Genealogies
Illustrations
Maps
Bibliography
Unprinted Sources
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index