Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250

Acknowledgments, Maps

xiii  Acknowledgments In the five years spent researching and writing this book, I was consistently amazed by the support I received from friends, colleagues, librarians, and archivists in both the United States and Europe. I am therefore pleased to acknowledge the people who helped make this book possible. To begin at the end, I would especially like to thank John Van Engen and Lisa Wolverton for reading the manuscript in the late stages and for pushing me, as they always have, to make my arguments stronger and clearer. For reading parts of the manuscript at earlier stages, I am also grateful to Rachel Fulton Brown, Constantin Fasolt, David Nirenberg, John Freed, Amy Livingstone , Constance Bouchard,and a second,anonymous reader for Cornell University Press. Along the way, I also presented parts of this book as talks in many places and benefited from countless conversations. Members of the Arbeitskreis geistliche Frauen im europäischen Mittelalter and participants in the Symposium on New Directions in Gender Studies and Medieval German Studies at Princeton University were especially helpful interlocutors. At the University of Chicago,I have been grateful for conversations with many of my colleagues in the History Department as well as with Daisy Delogu, Ryan Giles,Aden Kumler, John Padgett,and Lucy Pick. For their hospitality, support,and advice during my stays in Germany,I thank Bernd Schneidmüller , Stefan Weinfurter, Klaus Oschema, Jörg Peltzer, Andrea Briechle, and Carla Meyer in Heidelberg; Bernhard Jussen in Frankfurt; and Klaus van Eickels and Stefan Biessenecker in Bamberg. Research for this book was made possible by a variety of grants. Much of the material on the Andechs lineage was gathered during my first extended research trip to Europe, with support from the University of Notre Dame, the J. William Fulbright Program, and the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund. Later archival research was funded by a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) and two summer grants from the University of Chicago’s Division of the Social Sciences. The staff at the archives I consulted in Germany, Austria, France, and Hungary were all extraordinarily helpful. On many of my short research trips in particular, I was immensely grateful for archivists who had charters ready for me in advance. At Cornell University Press, Peter Potter, Susan Specter, and my copy editor, Marie Flaherty-Jones, did a wonderful job preparing the final manuscript and were always quick to answer my questions. I am also grateful to Chieko Maene,a GIS specialist at the University of Chicago,for all her work making the maps. Finally, I would like to thank my parents and especially my wife, Brooke, for her unwavering support. Whether reading drafts or entertaining our son so I could research and write,she has always done whatever she could to help me in this endeavor. Words cannot possibly express my gratitude for all the ways in which she has made this book possible. xiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TYROL BRANDENBURG LOWER LUSATIA MEISSEN THURINGIA ISTRIA MERANIA CARNIOLA SAXONY PROVENCE BAVARIA BOHEMIA SWABIA SILESIA FRANCONIA STYRIA LOWER LOTHARINGIA AUSTRIA COUNTY-PALATINE OF BURGUNDY CARINTHIA UPPER LOTHARINGIA A L S A C E 1:9,000,000 Figure 1. The German kingdom and the empire. Adapted from Staufisches Kaisertum im 12. Jahrhundert: Konzepte—Netzwerke—Politische Praxis, edited by Stefan Burkhardt, Thomas Metz, Bernd Schneidmüller, and Stefan Weinfurter (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2010), 19. Figure 2. Saxony and its environs Pegau Mainz Werben Prague Wettin Weimar Rögatz Lübeck Erfurt Bremen Meissen Stendal Neumark Marburg Drübeck Dresden Cologne Coblenz Wartburg Naumburg Lüneburg Köpenick Fritzlar Bonnrode Arneburg Frankfurt Zschillen Orlamünde Merseburg Magdeburg Henneberg Groitzsch Brunswick Ziegenhain Nordhausen Hildesheim Gelnhausen Gardelegen Cappenberg Artlenburg Wolmirstedt Supplinburg Mittenwalde Halberstadt Brandenburg Lippoldsberg Haldensleben Reinhardsbrunn 6 1 3 5 4 2 7 8 9 10 11 1:4,000,000 Rivers Lauterberg Brehna Delitzsch Eilenburg Weissenfels Kalbe 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Quedlinburg Gernrode Ballenstedt Aschersleben Gerbstedt Bishopric Archbishopric Figure 3. The south of the German kingdom and the empire Berg Namur Liège Udine Pavia Milan Baden Prague Venice Vienna Admont Bingen Aachen Cividale Gorizia Luxeuil Auxonne Villach Mödling Staufen Kelheim Ensdorf Coblenz Bamberg Aquileia Besançon Friesach Tübingen Sulzbach Scheyern Freising Luxemburg Roncaglia Wolfsberg Innsbruck Zähringen Straubing Nuremberg Kitzingen Henneberg Frankfurt Eberstein Strasbourg Schesslitz Rothenburg Regensburg Raitenbuch Gelnhausen...