Book contents
- Frontmatter
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- I A FLOATING REPUBLIC
- II THE EXPULSION OF MOGAHID FROM SARDINIA
- III THE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST PALERMO AND MEHDIA
- IV THE FIRST CRUSADE
- V THE BALEARIC EXPEDITION
- VI WAR WITH GENOA
- VII THE WAR WITH THE NORMANS
- VIII INTO THE VORTEX
- IX PISAN COLONIES
- X FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
- XI EXPULSION OF THE GENOESE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- XII BARISONE OF ARBOREA
- XIII RAINALD OF COLOGNE
- XIV GENOA AND LUCCA AGAINST PISA
- XV CHRISTIAN OF MAYENCE
- XVI THE COMMUNES DEPRIVED OF THEIR CONTADI
- XVII PISA AND THE EMPEROR HENRY VI
- XVIII ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
- XIX PISA UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSULS
- XX CONSORTERIE GENTILIZIE
- XXI FROM CONSULS TO POTESTA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
XIII - RAINALD OF COLOGNE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- I A FLOATING REPUBLIC
- II THE EXPULSION OF MOGAHID FROM SARDINIA
- III THE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST PALERMO AND MEHDIA
- IV THE FIRST CRUSADE
- V THE BALEARIC EXPEDITION
- VI WAR WITH GENOA
- VII THE WAR WITH THE NORMANS
- VIII INTO THE VORTEX
- IX PISAN COLONIES
- X FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
- XI EXPULSION OF THE GENOESE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- XII BARISONE OF ARBOREA
- XIII RAINALD OF COLOGNE
- XIV GENOA AND LUCCA AGAINST PISA
- XV CHRISTIAN OF MAYENCE
- XVI THE COMMUNES DEPRIVED OF THEIR CONTADI
- XVII PISA AND THE EMPEROR HENRY VI
- XVIII ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
- XIX PISA UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSULS
- XX CONSORTERIE GENTILIZIE
- XXI FROM CONSULS TO POTESTA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
In 1162 Frederick sent Rainald, Archbishop of Cologne, with the title of Italiae archicancellarius et imperatoriae maiestatis legatus, to re-order the administration of Tuscany on a new plan. The dissolution of the Margravate was accepted as an inevitable fact, and it was resolved to reassume the direct government of its various parts by means of German Counts or Potesta, as had already been done in Lombardy. Many fortresses were garrisoned by German troops and others were constructed. S. Miniato al Tedesco, with its tower on the hill-top and the unwalled village of S. Genesio below, became the centre of the new administration. At the same time, an attempt was made to reconcile the rights of the Empire with the jurisdiction which the communes had so long exercised in their respective contadi. None of them denied the right of the Emperor to demand the oath of fealty, to confirm in their offices the magistrates freely elected by the citizens, to levy tribute and to raise troops. The cause of their discontent lay in the difficulties which the Imperial potesta interposed to the exercise of civic jurisdiction over the entire territory of the contado and diocese of each city. Legally speaking, the potesta were in the right. In every case, except that of Pisa, the jurisdiction exercised by the communes was abusive.
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- A History of PisaEleventh and Twelfth Centuries, pp. 158 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1921