Transregnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century

Jörg Peltzer is Professor of Comparative History in a European Perspective with a focus on the late Middle Ages at Heidelberg University. He is also a British Academy Global Professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (2021–2025) and a member of Academia Europaea. Nicholas Vincent is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Abbreviations PrefaceIntroduction: Transregnal Kingship JÖRG PELTZER AND NICHOLAS VINCENTPart I Theory 1. Transregnal Kingship in Thirteenth-Century Political Thought FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUDA Special Case? The Papacy in the Early Thirteenth Century BARBARA BOMBIPart II Imperium 3. Ruling Germany and the Empire: The Thirteenth Century MARTIN KAUFHOLD‘Profitemur imperium nichil prorsus iuris habere in regno Sicilie’: Relations between the Empire and Sicily during the Reign of Frederick II LIOBA GEIS Perceptions of Transregnal Imperial Rule in Thirteenth-Century Germany LEN SCALES Part III Mediterranean Worlds 6. The Fractured Empire of Charles I of Anjou DAVID ABULAFIAHoly Opportunity: Transregnal Lordship in Three Crusading Families G. E. M. LIPPIATT The Many Sicilies? ‘Angevin’ Architecture at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century with Notes on Robert Willis’s Remarks (1835) PAULA VITOLO Part IV England and France 9. The Plantagenet ‘Empire’ in the Thirteenth Century: Survival, Reorganisation and Reorientation DANIEL POWERRoyal Inquests in Western Gascony during the Reign of Henry III (1228–1255) FRÉDÉRIC BOUTOULLE Imposition and Appropriation? Architecture, the Associated Arts, and the Presentation of Rulership in the Shell of the Angevin Empire, 1200–1300 LINDY GRANT Part V Crowned with Many Crowns 12. A Different Path? The Single Crown of Louis IX WILLIAM CHESTER JORDANIndex