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Levy of Troops for Wars in Bohemia,1422
LEVY OF TROOPS FOP; WARS IN BOHEMIA, 1422.
Deutsche Reichstagsakten Bd, VIII (1883) pp. x57-X65.
Reprinted in Altmann und Bernheim: Ausgewlhlte Urkunden, Second
Ed., pp. 174-177. German.
[TR Introduction] The levy of troops for the Bohemian wars
gives us a picture of the relative size and importance of the
various powers of Germany in 1422. The statisticians will note
especially the concentration of power in the Rhine lands, The
contingents to be furnished by the cities, afford an excellent
scale of the relative importance of towns in the epoch concerned.
(The Electors). Archbishops: Mayence 50 with swords, Cologne
40 with swords. Treves 40 with swords. The count Palatine 50 with
swords. Saxony 20 mounted man-at-arms. Branderburg 50 with swords.
The Bishops: The archbishop of Magdeburg 30 swordsmen,
10 archers. Bishop of Hildesheim 5 swordsmen, 5 archers. That
of Wurzburg 20 swordsmen. That of Bamberg 20 swordsmen. That of
Eichstatt 10 swordsmen. That of Strassburg 10 swordsmen. That
of Constanz 8 swordsmen. That of Basle 2 swordsmen. That of Coire
2 swordsmen. That of Besan,con 6 swordsmen- That of Augsburg 2
swordsmen. That of Metz 6 swordsmen. That of Toul 3 swordsmen.
That of Verdun 6 swordsmen. That of Lausanne 6 swordsmen. That
of Speyer 8 swordsmen That of Worms 2 swordsmen. That of Verden
3 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms. That of Schwerin 8 swordsmen, 8 men-at-arms.
That of Halberstadt 6 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms. That of Bremen
10 swordsmen, 10 men-at-arms. That of Sammin 6 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms.
That of Regensburg 5 swordsmen. That of Munster 10 swordsmen.
Dukes and lay princes. Duke of Lorraine 20 swordsmen. Duke
of Bar 20 swordsmen. Duke of Savoy 50 swordsmen. Margrave of Baden
10 swordsmen. Landgrave of Hesse 20 swordsmen, 10 Dentate arms.
Duke Otto of the Leina 10 swordsmen, 10 men-at-arms. Erich of
Brunswick 5 swordsmen, 5 men-at-arms. Duke Otto of Hirschberg
5 swordsmen, 5 men-at-arms. Bernhard and William of Brunswick
with their cities namely, Brunswick and Luneburg, 10 swordsmen
10 men-at-arms. John of Mecklenburg 10 swordsmen, 10 men-at-arms
Albrecht of Mecklenburg 10 swordsmen, 10 men-at-arms. Children
of Duke Ulrich with the country of Stargardt 10 swordsmen, 10
men-atarms. Otto and Casimir of Stettin 20 swordsmen, 12 men-at-arms
ltladislaf of Wolgast 15 swordsmen, 12 men-at-arms. Erich of Saxe-Lauenberg
3 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms. Louis of Ingoldstadt in Bavaria 16
swordsmen. Ernest and William of Bavaria 10 swordsmen. Henry of
Bavaria 20 swordsmen. John of Bavaria 10 swordsmen. Stephen of
Bavaria 5 swordsmen. Otto of Bavaria 5 swordsmen. Adolphus of
Cleve 20 swordsmen. Duke of Berg 6 spearmen. The bishop of Utrecht,
with Deventer, ICempten, Zwolle, and Utrecht, 40 swordsmen.
Lords and counts in the Netherlands. The duke of Jülich,
and the knights of Jülich and Guelders, and the four cities
of Romunde, Nymwegen, Arnheim and Zutphen 60 swordsmen. The three
cities of Brabant 100 swordsmen. The cities of Liege 100 swordsmen.
Standard bearers, knights, and men of Holland 60 swordsmen. Standard
bearers, knights, and men of Hainault, the cities of Hainault,
the count of Namurs 90 swordsmen. Lords and knights of Flanders,
the cities of Flanders 20 swordsmen.
Counts and lords. Gerhard, count of Mark 3 swordsmen. William
count of Ravensburg 2 swordsmen. Count of Teckelnburg 2 swordsmen.
Count of Riedenburg 1 swordsman. Lord of Lippe 2 swordsmen. Lord
of Dippoldswald 1 swordsman. Count of Bentheim 1 swordsman. Count
of Schaumburg 1 swordsman. Count of Oldenburg 1 swordsman. Frederick
and William of Henneberg 4 swordsmen. Count of Rheineck 2 swordsmen.
Count of Kastel 2 swordsmen. Count of Hohenlohe 2 swordsmen. Count
of Weinsberg 2 swordsmen. Count of Heideck 1 swordsman. Otto Erich
of the Heust 6 swordsmen. Count of Würtemberg 20 swordsmen.
Count of Schauen 15 swordsmen. Margrave of Rotelen 3 swordsmen.
Margrave of Toggenburg5 swordsmen. Conrad of Freiburg 5 swordsmen.
Hugo master of the Order of St. John 10 swordsmen. Christopher
of Wenden 6 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms. Albrecht and George of Anhalt
5 swordsmen, 5 men-at-arms. Bernhard of Auhalt 4 swordsmen, 4
men-at-arms. Bernhard of Rheinstein, 3 swordsmen, 3 men-at-arms.
Count of Wernigerode 4 swordsmen, 4 archers. Emich of Leinigen
3 swordsmen. Frederick of Leinigen 2 swordsmen. Philipp of Nassau
4 swordsmen. John of Sponheim 5 swordsmen. Frederick of Veldenz
3 swordsmen. John and Frederick, counts of the Rhine 2 swordsmen.
Philipp and Emich, lords of Oberstein, 2 swordsmen. Lord of Hohenfels
1 swordsman. Nicholas NTogt of Honolstein 1 swordsman. John of
Katzenellenbogen 8 swords-men. Adolphus of Nassau 2 swordsmen.
William of Wied 3 swordsmen. Philipp and Salentin lord of Ysenburg
3 swordsmen. John of Wied, Reinhard, lord of Westerburg 2 swordsmen.
Dietrick, lord of Runkel 1 swordsman. John and Henry, counts of
Nassau lord of Bilstein 2 swordsmen. Bernhard and John brothers,
count Solms 3 swordsmen. John of Wittgenstein 1 swordsman. Rupert
of Virneburg 2 swordsmen. Gottfried Eberhard, lord of Eppstein
4 swordsmell. Reinhard, lord of Hanau 3 swordsmen. Dieter, lord
of Budegen 3 swordsmen. Michael of Wertheim 1 swordsman. William
of Eberstein 1 swordsman. Lords of Arbergen 3 swordsmen. William
of Blankenstein 1 swordsman. John, lord of Schleiden 1 swordsman.
Frederick of Moers 4 swordsmen. John, lord of Heimsberg 4 swordsmen.
Walrave of Moers 1 swordsman. William Craft, lord of Saffenburg
1 swordsman. John, lord of Rodemachern 2 swordsmen. John and Gottfried,
lord of Ziegenhain 2 swordsmen. Henry of Waldeck, and the others
of Waldeck 4 swordsmen. John Henry of Vinstigen 2 swordsmen. The
lord of Wibelkoben 1 swordsman. Shenk Eberhard, Schenk Conrad
and Schenk Conrad the younger, of Ehrenpach 3 swordsmen. Conrad,
lord of Bickenbach 1 swordsman. The lord of Neuenahr 1 swordsman.
Eberhard of Lineburg, lord of Hartenburg 2 swordsmen. Count of
Limburg 1 swordsman. The lord of Harn 2 swordsmen. John of Saarwerden
1 swordsman. The Brothers of Bitsch 1 swordsman. Count of Salm
1 swordsman.
The Abbots. The abbot of Fulda 6 swordsmen. The abbot of
Weissenburg 2 swordsmen. The abbot of Zelle 1 swordsman. The abhot
of Murbach 3 swordsmen. The abbot of Maulbronn 5 swordsmen. The
abbot of Einsiedeln 2 swordsmen. The abbot of Biebenhausen 3 swordsmen.
Tbe abbot of Salem 5 swordsmen. The abbot Alb 2 swordsmen. The
abbot of Kemptem 2 swordsmen. The abbot of Schaffhausen 2 swordsmen.
The abbot of Petershausen 2 swordsmen. The abbot of Kinzing 2
swordsmen. The abbot of Weingarten 4 swordsmen. The abbot of Elchingen
2 swordsmen. The abbot of St. Blasien 2 swordsmen. The abbot of
Balbeuren 2 swordsmen. The abbot of Zwiefalten 2 swordsmen. The
abbot of Isni 1 swordsman. The abbot of Saint George 1 swordsman.
The abbot of Saint John 1 swordsman. The abbot of Pfaeffers 1
swordsman. The abbot of Konigsbrünn 1 swordsman. Prior to
Schussenried 2 swordsmen.
The cities. The confederates of Berne, Lucerne, Zurich,
Freiburg in Vaud 250 horse. Constance, Lindau, Buchhorn, Ravensburg,
Ueberlingen, Zelle am Unter See, Diessenhofen, 50 swordsmen and
200 mounted men. SchaShausen, Waldshut, Lauffenberg, Sackingen,
Sheinfelden, Winterthur, Rapperswil, Frauenfeld 26 men-at-arms.
Kempten, Isny, Wangen, Leutkirch, Memmingen, Augsburg, Biberach,
pfullendorf, Kaufbeuren, Ulm, Giengen, Nordlingen, Bopfingenj
AaJen, Gmund, Dunkelsbuhl, Esslingen, Reutlingen Rottweil, Weil,
Buchau, 100 swordsmen and 100 men-at-arms. Halle 12 swordsmen
and 12 men-at-arms. Heilbronn, Wimpfen Weinsberg 24 mounted men
armed. Basle 16 swordsmen. Strassburg Muhlhausen, Colmar, Munster
in St. Gregorienthal, Kaiserberg, Durkheim, Schlettstadt, Oberehnheim,
Roshein, Hagenau, Weissenburg, 30 swordsmen. Freiburg, Neuenberg
Breisach, Kenzingen Endingen 10 swordsmen. Verden 10 swordsmen.
Kaufmansarburg 3 swordsmen. Treves 4swords men. Metz 20 swordsmen.
Toul 10 swordsmen. Speyer Worms and Mayence 24 swordsmen. Cologne,
Aix la Chapelle 39 swordsmen. Dortmund 6 swordsmen. Frankfort
15 swordsmen. Friedberg 2 swordsmen. Gelnhausen 3 swordsmen. Wetzlar
2 swordsmen. Nuremberg 30 swordsmen, 30 men-at-arms. Rothenburg
12 swordsmen, 12 men-at-arms. Windsheim 5 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms,
Weissenburg in Franconia 5 swordsmen, 5 men-at-arms. Schweinfurt
5 swordsmen, 5 men-at-arms. Regensburg 15 swordsmen, 15 men-at-arms.
Lubeck 30 swordsmen, 30 men-at-arms. Hamburg 15 swordsmen, 15
men-at-arms. Muhlhausen [Saxony] 3 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms. Nordhausen
15 swordsmen, 10 men-at-arms. Aschesleben 10 swordsmen, 6 men-at-arms.
Halberstadt 10 swordsmen, 10 men-at-arms. Quedlinburg 10 swordsmen,
10 men-at-arms. Sum total, 754 swordsmen and 777 mounted horse
from the cities.
From University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History: Translations
and Reprints from the Original Sources of European history,
published for the Dept. of History of the University of Pennsylvania.,
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1897?-1907?]), Vol
III:2, pp.8-11
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