Regesta of Albert I 1298-1308

Leitung:

Dr. Paul Herold

Anschrift:

Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung

Universitätsring 1

A-1010 Wien

The first fascicle, which will include the regesta of the years 1298-1302, is currently in process.

Regesta of Henry VII 1308-1313

Leitung:

Prof. Dr. Michel Margue

Mitarbeiter:
  • Dr. Christina Abel
  • Dr. Miriam Weiss
Anschrift:

Regesta Imperii Heinrich VII.
Historisches Institut Mittelalter
Universität des Saarlandes

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Henry VII 1308-1313

The Luxembourgish count, Roman king and later emperor Henry VII is counted among the most significant rulers of the Middle Ages.

Already during his time as a count he had proven himself as an innovative and vigorous sovereign. His younger brother Balduin († 1354), which rose up to the archbishop of Trier in 1307/1308, was a successful politician, too, who skillfully supported his brother and even after his early death not only directed his archdiocese with a firm hand for almost half a century, but also sustainably shaped the imperial politics. After having been elected as Roman-German emperor in November 1308 after a more than six month preparation, Henry VII was the founder of a ruler dynasty of pan-European importance. He already laid the foundation stone for this in his first year in power by ruling positively on Bohemian requests in a venturesome way, enfeoffed son John – who later received the epithet “the Blind”– in the following year with the Bohemian crown and immediately married him off to the last unwedded Přemyslidian princess Elisabeth so that the Bohemian Kingdom came into the possession of his family. At the start of the 14th century their realm in “composed statehood” comprised a territory three times the size of the present-day Grand Duchy between the modern states Germany, Belgium and France, but was still unable to measure up to the mightier ones amongst the German Prince Regnants. By integrating Bohemia in his realm, Henry VII did not only gain an electorship for the house of Luxembourg but also due to her rich silver mines of the biggest and economically strongest imperial territories. Simultaneously the marriage between Henry VII’s son and the Přemyslidian princess reinforced the tendency strengthening of political and cultural emphases in the Roman-German Empire in the East, too, with Prague emerging as a quasi-capital, which was then followed by Vienna.

From the start Henry VII purposefully pursued his plans of gaining the western imperial crown. Already in the autumn of 1310 he had crossed the alps accompanied by a respectable army, he was however welcomed by the Italian population with a mixture of enthusiasm and fear, rejection actually. This was caused by the fact that Henry VII aspired for the first time in more than half a century to exercise imperial rights in Northern Italy, exercise real power and claim the taxes and duties which the monarchical central power was entitled to.

After one and a half years he was able to prevail despite persisting resistance, partly due to the aid of military violence: On June 26, 1312 Henry VII was declared emperor in Rome. Further plans, in a politically and militarily effective pincer movement, that is to say in an alliance with the Sicilian king, possibly to win Southern Italy back, were not realized due to his prematurely death on August 24, 1313.

The revision of the regesta of Emperor Henry VII (1308-1313) has been located at Saarland University since 1979. Under the project management of Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke, two chronological volumes of regests have been published so far, covering Henry's time as count of Luxembourg and the first years of his kingship, which Henry spent north of the Alps (1288/1308 to October 23, 1310). The focus of the work on the still outstanding regesta, since 2016 under the scientific direction of Michel Margue (University of Luxembourg), is on Italy, where Henry VII stayed until his early death on August 24, 1313. The results of the archival and library research in Italy, conducted in conjunction with the RI sub-projects on Louis the Bavarian and Frederick III ("Italienprojekt"), are already published before the printing of the next chronological volume.

The pre-publication of the regesta takes place exclusively online in the form of work-in-progress publications. These volumes are organized according to the provenance principle for documents and pragmatic written records: They include the regesta from archives and libraries of each modern or historical region or from an archive collection as soon as the known tradition there has been fully documented. The regesta compiled from historiographical sources also appear in separate volumes, which are subdivided chronologically: They document specific periods of Henry VII's reign. The regesta of all volumes are also compiled in chronological order in an annually updated file and regularly added to the regesta database on RI-Online. In order to make the provisional processing status transparent, textual witnesses, prints and regesta that have not yet been consulted are marked separately. These are progressively added until printing. It is therefore recommended to always work with the latest work-in-progress publication, which is published online at the end of each year.

Publications

VI. Rudolf I of Germany - Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1273-1313

  1. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1272-1313. Unit. 1 (Rudolf), edited by Redlich, Oswald. Reprint of the edition Innsbruck (1898) - Hildesheim (1969).*Printed version as PDF documentReviews of this volume
  2. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1272-1313. Unit. 2. Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Adolf von Nassau: 1291-1298, edited by Samanek, Vincenz - Innsbruck (1948).Printed version as PDF documentReviews of this volume
  3. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1272-1313. Unit. 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. 1. fasc.: 1288/1308 - August 1309, edited by Jäschke, Kurt-Ulrich and Thorau, Peter - Innsbruck (2006).Printed version as PDF documentReviews of this volume
  4. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. 2. fasc.: 1. September 1309 – 23. Oktober 1310, edited by Jäschke, Kurt-Ulrich and Thorau, Peter - Wien (et al.) (2014).Printed version as PDF documentReviews of this volume
  5. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Nachträge zu Band 1 und 2, edited by Penth, Sabine with the collaboration of Jäschke, Kurt-Ulrich and Thorau, Peter - Mainz (2016).Digital volume
  6. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus den Archiven und Bibliotheken Liguriens, edited by Abel, Christina with the collaboration of Penth, Sabine - Mainz (2019).Digital volume (PDF)
  7. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus dem Register und dem Imbreviaturenbuch des Bernardo de Mercato, edited by Abel, Christina with the collaboration of Penth, Sabine - Mainz (2020).Digital volume (PDF)
  8. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten zum Itinerar 1312, edited by Hammann, Linda - Mainz (2019).Digital volume (PDF)
  9. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten zum Itinerar 1313, edited by Roth, Marlene - Mainz (2020).Digital volume (PDF)
  10. Das Register des Bernardo de Mercato. 1310 November 20 – 1311 Januar 4. Turin, AS, Sezione Corte, Materie politiche per rapporto all’estero, Diplomi Imperiali mazzo 3.1 n. 4.2, edited by Penth, Sabine - Mainz (2020).Digital volume (PDF)
  11. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus den Archiven und Bibliotheken Österreichs, edited by Weiss, Miriam, Abel, Christina, Penth, Sabine, Thorau, Peter. Elektronische pdf-Ressource - Mainz (2021).Digital volume (PDF)
  12. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus dem Ratsprotokollbuch Heinrich des VII., edited by Abel, Christina. Elektronische pdf-Ressource - Mainz (2022). Digital volume (PDF)
  13. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus dem Archivio Storico Diocesano in Pisa, edited by Kirt, David; Margue, Michael; Mineo, Emilie; Salemme, Timothy with the collaboration of Weiss, Miriam; Abel, Christina; Penth, Sabine and Thorau, Peter. Elektronische pdf-Ressource - Mainz (2022).Digital volume (PDF)
  14. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1272-1313. Abt. 4: Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus dem Instruktionenbuch Heinrichs VII., edited by Abel, Christina. Elektronische pdf-Ressource - Mainz (2023). Digital volume (PDF)
  15. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1272-1313. Abt. 4: Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten aus der Historiographie: 1310 Oktober 23 - 1311 Januar 6, edited by Weiss, Miriam with Regesta of Weiss, Miriam; Penth, Sabine; Thorau, Peter; Abel, Christina. Elektronische pdf-Ressource - Mainz (2023). Digital volume (PDF)
  16. Böhmer, J. F., Regesta Imperii VI. Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Unit 4. Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. WORKS IN PROGRESS: Regesten ab 1310 Oktober 23/24, edited by Abel, Christina; Hammann, Linda; Margue, Michel; Mineo, Emilie; Penth, Sabine; Roth, Marlene; Salemme, Timothy and Weiss, Miriam with the collaboration of Kirt, David; Thorau, Peter und Jäschke, Kurt-Ulrich - Mainz.Version 2018Version 2019Version 2020Version 2021Version 2022Version 2023

All printed publications were published by the two Böhlau publishing houses in Cologne-Weimar-Vienna and respectively Vienna-Weimar-Cologne. Volumes marked by a * were published as reprints by the publishing house Olms, Hildesheim.