History of the Bishops of Basel

Vautrey, Mgr 
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History of the bishops of Basle 

Einsiedeln, New York, Cincinnati & St-Louis.
Charles & Nicolas Benziger Brothers, 1886.

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NOTES Of HISTORY 

"under the angle of the Prince-bishops OF BASLE, in a chronological 
order" 
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Volume I 
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p. 170 
The bishop of Basle was struck with the other members of the secret 
meeting of Pavie. Its
long episcopal career, marked per so many generous acts, accepted a 
souil- from it
lure which the history could not erase. Ortlieb, in the twenty-third 
year of
its episcopate, passed to the schism, being declared openly against 
the legitimate pope
Alexandre III. He had deserved well of the emperor and the antipape. 
Also accepted
it at once wages of its apostasy. Three days after the schismatic 
vote
secret meeting of Pavie, Barberousse, agreeing to the prayers of 
Ortlieb which has,
he run for his service of the dangers says on ground and on sea, 
confirms to him
possession of the churches of Moutier and Saint-Ursanne given to the 
bishop of Basle
by last king de Bourgogne Rodolphe III At the same time it confers 
it to him
right to have the emoluments of these churches, and to name the 
canons there.
The act drawn up with Pavie on February 14, 1160, has as witnesses 
all the princes ecclé-
siastic and secular which attended the council. 
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p. 176 
While waiting for the exit of this business, Louis de Frobourg had 
to abdicate the fonc-
tions episcopal of which was covered in its place Hugues d' Asuel, 
which was then pre
vôt of the chapter of Saint-Ursanne. But the new bishop was removed 
by a death
premature, one year hardly after its taking possession of the head 
office of Basle. It soft
rut, according to the liber vitae of the cathedral, May 15, 1177, 
and was buried
in front of the room of the bell ringers, in the vault of S. Gall. 
Its epitaph was
thus conceived:

Anno Domini MCLXXVII
Obiit
Reve. Hugo de Hasenburg
Episcopus Basiliensis.

Hugues d' Asuel was of the noble family whose castle rose with the 
top of
village of this name, and which had already given to the Church of 
Basle a famous bishop,
Bourcard d' Asuel. Hugues was in 1146 canon of Saint-Ursanne; in 
1173, it
appear like provost of this chapter; it is still to the Hugues 
provost that Alexandre
III address in 1178, the confirmative bubble of the possessions of 
the Church of
Saint-Ursanne. 
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p. 178 
It is also about the same time (1180) that is placed a made 
significant donation
by Henri de Horbourg with the church of Saint-Ursanne. 
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p. 182 
While the cathedral was the object of the royal favour, the 
collegial one of Saint
Ursanne complained about the poverty and the exiguity of its 
resources. The pope Lu
cius III, informed of the indigence of this chapter, requested the 
bishops of Basle and of
Strasbourg to come to its help. These two prelates agreed to give to
canons of Saint-Ursanne the church of Habsheim in Alsace with its 
incomes, under
condition which they would introduce an able person to manage it. 
Henri of 
Horbourg lent itself with much eagerness to this donation, which 
ensured
chapter in distress of the significant resources. It went itself to 
Saint-Ursanne
to draw up the notarial act where he wanted to make insert the 
expression of his fastener
lies to his/her worthy brothers and friends, the provost and canons 
attached to the service
church of Saint-Ursanne. "We are held, says it, by charity and in 
virtue
of our load, to sympathize with the needs for the churches of God, 
especially of those
who are particularly the object of our solicitude. However, having 
learned the poor one
t-piece and the exiguity of the incomes of the church of Saint-
Ursanne, we solved
to come to assistance of this church which we like like our daughter 
of an affection
very paternal. This is why for our safety and that of our 
successors, us
he let us give the church of Habsheim of which it had already the 
right of foundation, for
emolument and the common use of the canons of Saint-Ursanne ". The 
bishop announces
in this deed of gift, that, by the mercy of God, it controls the 
Church of
Basle, since six years. 
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p. 192 
Wanting to again testify with the church to Saint-Ursanne solicitude 
that it him
carry as prince spiritual and temporal, Lutold de Rötheln joins 
together in front of him with
Saint-Ursanne the solicitor of the chapter, Bourcard d' Asuel, 
wisest of the country,
- sapientioribus terrae, - the féaux ones and men of this church, to 
know
them under oath rights of the bishop, the provost, the canons and
of the solicitor in prévôté of Saint-Ursanne. The privileges of each 
one are minu-
tieusement explained and reported in this curious charter which 
remained in
original in the files of old évêché of Basle. It carries the seals of
the bishop and of the chapter of Basle, the churches of Moutier and 
Saint-Ursanne. With
turn of the bishop, were joined together in the collegial one, with 
the canons of the place,
Conrad, treasurer of the cathedral, Othon, provost of Saint-Léonard 
in Basle, of
representatives of the chapters of Moutier and Soleure, Bourcard, 
the chaplain of
the bishop, several priests, of noble of évêché and finally men of 
the égli-
of Saint-Ursanne. 
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p. 205 
Henri de Thoune had also rights in Ajoie and in Salsgau; these 
rights him
were disputed by its stirring up enemy, the count Ulrich and Louis 
de Ferrette.
One came to a composition which regulated the points in litigation 
(about 1234). Hom-
my of the Church of Basle, or Saint-Germain de Moutier, or Saint-
Ursanne who
remained in Porrentruy, do not owe any service to the bishop of 
Basle; if they are
in Ajoie, they owe it; in the suburb of Ferrette, they must serve 
the évê-
that and the count. 
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p. 209 
The goods delivered to the bishop by Bourcard d' Asuel were 
considerable: they compre-
naient the castle of Asuel, the avocatie of S.-Ursanne, Habsheim, 
Miserez,
fields with Pfeffingen, Pfetterhausen, Hérimoncourt, Mörnach, 
Courtedoux, Cornol,
St-Ursanne, Glovelier, of the men with Dirlinsdorff; right of the 
bishop to Glères;
the vassal ones of Asuel, residing around the castle, a mill and the 
inheritance of
Bourcard with Charmoille with the patronage of the church. The noble 
lord d' Asuel put on
the furnace bridge of Ste Marie to the cathedral the act of 
resignation of all its goods in
favour of the bishop of Basle, which accepted it on its behalf and 
in the name of any sound chapi-
tre. The sealed charter of the seals of Bourcard d' Asuel, the 
bishop and the chanoi- 
nes, had been drawn up in front of many témôins in the house or the 
cure of
senior of the Wilhelm cathedral, the VIII of the ides of July 1241. 
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pp. 319-320 
The chapter of Saint-Ursanne, like that of Basle, accepted marks of 
the sollici-
tude benevolent of the bishop of Basle. This collegial had incomes 
then
very moderate in regard to the number of canons; Gerard de Vuippens 
wanted to them ren-
easier DRE the stay near their church and the celebration of the 
saints offi-
these, by joining together with the capitulary mense the parish 
churches of Saint-Ursan-
and of Epauvillers whose chapter had already collature. The 
episcopal act is
gone back to Delémont, April 24, 1313. One year after, the bishop of 
Basle still made gift with
even chapter of a stronghold that Jean says Kochmeister held of the 
church of Basle and
that it had resigned between the hands of the prelate (May 7, 1314). 
At a few months from there,
Gerard de Vuippens ensured the canons of Saint-Ursanne the right of 
patronage of
the church of Saint-Blaise, close to Lindsdorf (canton of Ferrette). 
The chapter of
Grand Saint-Bernard claimed that this right belonged to him; Saint-
Ursanne the pos-
sédait and exerted it freely and peacefully. The business was 
carried in front of
senior of the cathedral of Basle, Jean Camerarii; the chapter of S. 
Bernard was done
to represent by the vice-chancellor of Ferrette, main Jehan; Saint-
Ursanne by the cha-
noines Hugues and Henri d' Asuel. The senior, chosen by the parts 
like referee,
recognized the right of the chapter of Saint-Ursanne and débouta 
Large Saint-Bernard
of its complaints (July 6, 1314). The bishop of Basle, which was 
then in Delé-
mount, confirmed this judgement on July 17, and the provost of Saint-
Bernard, the 26
same month. This right of recognized patronage, Gerard de Vuippens, 
to increase
incomes of the church of Saint-Ursanne, very tested and reduced to 
large
shortage by the enemies of évêché of Basle, attached to this chapter 
the églie of
Saint-Blaise (Lulliskilch, in the décanat of Leymenthal), in 
condition of
to make serve by an able priest, approved by the bishop of Basle. 
The act of
donation was drawn up and sealed in Saint-Ursanne on August 4, 1314, 
in the presence of
Gerard de Vuippens who wanted to do itself this present at worthy 
the chanoi-
nes. 
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pp. 324-325 
Similar provisions were taken, about same time, at the time of one
foundation made with the collegiate church of Saint-Ursanne, who was 
approved by
the bishop of Basle on January 15, 1323. The priest of Hohenrodern, 
Egelolfus had been
affected of the poverty of the church of Saint-Ursanne and the 
defect of masses for
the late ones in the chorus of this collegial. Animated by the 
tender devotion
that it feels towards the church or the place of Saint-Ursanne, with 
the honor of God,
of his/her mother the Virgin Mary, and happy Michel archangel, 
Ursanne and Lau-
rent martyr, for the relief of the hearts of his/her father and 
mother, parents and well
faiteurs, it melts a furnace bridge to be raised on the grid of the 
chorus, in the honor of S.
Michel and of S. Laurent. The chaplain named by him and his 
successors will have
to sing the mass for late Monday of each week, tous.les.jours of
Lent and of the Advent, with the vigils, four times, etc and to 
attend all
canonical hours. Each Sunday, after the sprinkling of holy water, or
front, if it is preferable, it will have to make publicly with the 
chorus report 
late to recommend this week, benefactors or servants of the church of
Saint-Ursanne and to make recite for them Pater noster and Ave 
Maria. During its
life, the founder had right to name the chaplain of its benefit; 
after its
died, this right passed to the provost of Saint-Ursanne. If the 
provost left
vacant vault more than one month, the custode of the chapter was to 
exert it
right. The goods applied by the Egelolphe priest to this foundation 
were
majority located in its parish of Hohenroden.

The provost of Saint-Ursanne, Albert de Ehenheim imitated the 
example of this benefactor of collegial and the same day (January 
15, 1323) it made approve by Gerard de Vuippens an important 
donation in favour of the furnace bridge placed in the crypt under 
the high altar, dedicated to S. Valbert, confessor, with S. Oswald, 
king and martyr and with the eleven thousand virgins. The chaplain 
of this benefit was to say the mass three times per week to this 
furnace bridge. If by the divine permission, one would establish a 
vault on the mountain in the cave of S. Léodegar, above the town of 
Saint-Ursanne, then the aforesaid chaplain should also say three 
times per week the mass in the cave, unless the bad weather does not 
prevent it, and in this case, it should say it in the crypt, before 
premium or after the offertoire of the grand' mass, then to make 
exonerated and to throw holy water on the tomb of the Albert provost 
who chooses his burial in this crpyte. The chaplain was to attend 
every canonical hour and when the vigils of deaths were recited, it 
was to say them entirely in the crypt. It was also with him to 
provide oil for the light of the night in the crypt and it was to 
keep under good lock the hosts of this same crypt. The provost or 
with his defect the custode of collegial had the right of collature 
of this benefit. Among the goods applied by the provost to this 
foundation, we notice a house with S. Ursanne, between that of the 
priest and that of the Schoppe canon, beside the tower of the 
church; a garden located close to the rise which leads to the cave, 
above the ditch of the city, etc. After the death of the provost, 
the chaplain of the crypt, was to inherit all the ustensils of his 
house, three ordinary beds, etc, which were with perpetuity to be 
used for the use of its hosts. The provost still gave, after his 
death, his new missal with the high altar of Saint-Ursanne, the 
exclusive use of this furnace bridge. In recognition of this gift, 
the chapter granted to the chaplain of the crypt the missal which 
was used then for the high altar... " p. 335 the bishop of Basle, 
selected for referee and friendly type-setter, was then in Saint-
Ursanne in his "chattel" where it made put its scel in these 
letters, in sign of the plain truth ". Jean de Châlons was known 
of "his good people of Hursene Saint", bus in 1330 (October 15) it 
had put an end by a sentence delivered to Porrentruy to the 
disagreements which existed between Saint-Ursanne, Tramelan and the 
lord of Mount-joy: it fixed the limits of separation of the forests 
of the ones and others. Among the witnesses called with the clothes 
industry of this act, one notices main Pierre de Crosy that the 
bishop calls "nostre companion". p. 338.. negociated with the castle 
of Saint-Ursanne a loan of thousand gold guilders of Florence that 
the knight Wilhelm de Bremoncourt gave to him against an annual rent 
of one hundred guilders to take on the incomes of the court, in 
Porrentruy, of the fairs and the furnaces to the same place. At 
January 31, 1337, the castle was partly rebuilt and the bishop 
applied to the payment of this work a parite of the borrowed agent. 
Nonglad to ensure the town of Porrentruy the defense of his castle, 
Jean Senn wanted to provide for the fortifications with the city; 
this is why, by an act drawn up with the castle of Saint-Ursanne, 
February 1, 1337, the following day of the loan made to the lord de 
Bremoncourt, it applied to repairs of the public buildings, the 
walls, ditches, bridges turns and fortifications of Porrentruy 
produces it angal that one perceived for the wines downtown or in 
the surroundings. p. 357 Jean Senn made draw up the deed of gift in 
its castle of Porrentruy - in nostro Castro Burntrut - on December 
13, 1346. The bishop made his residence then there; perhaps it had 
come to Saint-Ursanne to visit and comfort the inhabitants of this 
city who almost entirely had been just destroyed by a fire, as an 
original act of December 23, 1346 announces it, preserved at the 
files of Saint-Ursanne. p. 414 Jean of Vienna was then in Saint-
Ursanne, in his chastel, where the deed of gift was drawn up and 
sealed, September 28, 1373. A few days before, "the Reverend Père as 
a God and Lord Monsire Jehan by the evesque grace of God of Bottom 
it" sitting to the same place, had received the oath of fidelity 
of "noble, high and powerful Lord Jean d' Arberg, lord de Valangin, 
in the diocese of Losanne" which began again in stronghold of the 
church of Basle, which its predecessors had retained, on the same 
basis. The lord de Montjoie, Louis, whose castle bordered Saint-
Ursanne, had had mesh to leave with Jean Vienna.
The bishop of Basle recognized the protection which his/her famous 
cousin had granted to him (Jean of Vienna, admiral de France) by 
giving him Saint-Ursanne as guarantees sums that it him was to have 
defended and have safeguarded the episcopal city. pp. 422-423 Saint-
Ursanne was then between the hands of the cousin of the bishop of 
Basle, the admiral of France, Jean of Vienna, which had received 
this city in recognition of the services rendered by him with 
évêché, at the time of the invasion of the companies of Enguerrand 
de Coucy. September 13, 1376, the famous sailor was in his good city 
and received from the middle-class men prudhommes and inhabitants of 
Saint-Ursanne oath of fidelity and obedience léale and due. On its 
side of admiral "by his léal foy and vine shoot donez on saint 
Gospel of corporally touched God" promised to maintain, to defend 
and to keep firmly and inviolablement, with always, like a good and 
léal lord must, without fraud and baret all the franknesses, 
privileges and freedoms, good customs and good habits of the church 
and the town of Saint-Ursanne. The charter sealed by the admiral, is 
still today in original with the files of Saint-Ursanne. Another 
title, of March 17, 1379, recalls the stay of the famous warrior in 
his city, of Saint-Ursanne. At that time, the chapter and the middle-
class men were in quarrel. The canons affirmed that their provost 
had and held jurisdiction of the city, and in particular the 
knowledge of measurements of corn, wine and pitch, of which it had 
the monitoring. If a fine struck the contraveners having false 
weight and distorts measurement, the third was allocated from there 
to the admiral, the remainder with the provost. Without the assent 
of the provost, the middle-class men and inhabitants of Saint-
Ursanne had decreased the measurement of the soldering iron and the 
pint and put angal "of their téméritey" on the wine. The chapter had 
protested against these acts of the middle-class men. The middle-
class men had produced for their discharge, a letter of the Jean 
bishop of Vienna, data to the castle of Porrentruy, 11 July 1378, 
which granted to them the right of angal in all the town hall of 
Saint-Ursanne to help them to strengthen the city and "reparelier 
and to maintain the walls, chesaux, eschelles". The admiral being 
with Saint-Ursanne "Sunday that one sings in holy Judica church me", 
March 25, sliced the disagreement, while allotting during nine years 
to the fortifications of the city, the profit resulting from the 
angal and the reduction in the pint of wine: the chapter was free of 
the angal and could establish it for the wine which it would sell of 
its cellars. The admiral, while giving this judgement, maintained to 
the middle-class men the privilege that the bishop had granted to 
them in recognition "the very large ones féaultés and affected that 
they had always had with him and with the church of Basle obeying 
honestly all commands and in all required". The chapter at that time 
had renewed its statutes which had been covered, after ripe 
examination, of the approval of the bishop of Basle, whose 
solicitude extended to all the parts of its diocese. p. 424 a 
forwarding armed against the castle with Montvouhay by people with 
Porrentruy and Saint-Ursanne had taken place under the bishop Jean 
Senn de Munsingen. We are unaware of the reasons for this 
aggression; one day the provost, mayor, middle-class men and 
inhabitants of the towns of Porrentruy and Saint-Ursanne, to which 
sergeants of the châtellenie of Porrentruy and town hall of Saint-
Ursanne had joined, had put banner at the wind and had seized force 
the castle and fortress of Montvouhay which belonged then to the 
knight Simon de Saint-Aubin. The old manor was devastated, the 
pieces of furniture removed and carried by the plunderers, the woman 
of the lord of the manor and his mother violently expelled of the 
castle. p. 426 the pope had also his collectors in the diocese of 
Basle. We find in 1373, a clerk of the room of Gregoire XI, Helie de 
Vodronio charged to collect the papal dîme in Germany. September 15 
of this year, it is in Basle where it delivers in the chapter of 
Saint-Ursanne a declaration which recognizes the right of the canons 
not to pay eighty money marcs, for which they had been taxed for the 
churches with Habsheim, Saint-Blaise and Wittersdorf which belonged 
to them. pp. 432-433 (Imier de Ramstein) At the same time, the 
bishop believed of the interest expensive of évêché, to repurchase 
the town of Saint-Ursanne that Jean of Vienna had engaged with his 
cousin, the admiral of France. It was on June 4 1384 which by a 
letter of Paris this noble lord announced to the inhabitants 
seigniories of Saint-Ursanne, Chauvelier and Muriaux that it 
released them from the oath that they had lent to him and that it 
baillait them and gave in the hand of the bishop of Basle. The 
admiral charged the knights Jean de Nant, Othon de Beaumont, Pierre 
de Choisy and the rider Perrin de Val Through, to make on his 
behalf, between the hands of the bishop, Imier of RAM-STEIN, the 
handing-over of the fortresses, city, castle, grounds and men and to 
receive from the prelate the agreed sum. This sum was assembled to 
four thousand guilders that the poor bishop did not have. It 
borrowed them from Bâlois which accepted by way of mortgages, the 
city and the castle of Saint-Ursanne and the castles of Chauvelier 
and Muriaux. p. 438 Hitherto the city and the castle of Saint-
Ursanne, the castles of Chauvelier and Muriaux had remained between 
the hands of Bâlois which had received them in pledge for four 
thousand guilders lent in 1384 to the Imier bishop. In 1388, the 
count Thiébaud VI of Neuchâtel in Burgundy, lent to Imier de 
Ramstein seven thousand five hundred franks, with which the bishop 
released these fields of the hands of the Bâ-laws and gave them in 
pledge to the noble count who it September 13 of the same year 
confirms the franknesses from the town of Saint-Ursanne. p. the 448 
debts continued to weigh on the episcopal mense. A state drawn up in 
1397 per order of the count Thiébaud of Neuchâtel, makes a sad 
nomenclature of the mortgages of which was burdened évêché with 
Basle. Porrentruy was engaged with the count Etienne of Montbeliard 
and the count Henri d' Orbe his son for eleven thousand franks; 
Saint-Ursanne, Chauvelier and Muriaux with the count Thiébaud of 
Neuchâtel for seven thousand five hundred franks old; etc... pp. 453-
455 While a fire devoured the antique church of this monastery, a 
similar disaster destroyed the town of Saint-Ursanne. "By oval of 
fue, it is marked with the protocol of the chapter, April 3, 1403, 
the town of Saint-Ursanne of all in all destruite and is put at 
nothing. - Considering large the mecheit which is of present and 
lately come downtown known as ", the canons and chaplains of the 
church held general chapter and gave half of the loads of money, 
corn and today them which were on the chéseaux ones, places, fields, 
close to Saint-Ursanne due to the birthdays, with those which by 
misfortune of fire had lost their houses, provided that in the three 
years space, they rebuild these houses in the walls and ramparts of 
the city and make personal residence there. Even favour was granted 
to the inhabitants who remained close to the bridge of Saint-Ursan-, 
on Doubs. The council of Saint-Ursanne granted the same discharge as 
the chapter for the censes which were due for him. Humbert of 
Neuchâtel approved of her episcopal authority the deliberation of 
the chapter, the 24 of the same month 1403. The castle of Saint-
Ursanne was then burdened with a debt of one hundred thirty-three 
guilders which were paid each year with Jean Spitz of Basle. The 
Humbert bishop deferred this load on the chancellery of évêché and 
the castle which was, with the city and the châtellenie, committed 
released some with the counts de Neuchâtel (December 20, 1404). The 
same year it could make raise the mortgages which charged the 
castles of Schlossberg, of Rock-in gold, Neuveville, Saint-Ursanne 
and Laufon, while paying the counts de Neuchâtel, Jean and Thiébaud, 
his parents, eight thousand gold guilders, for which these lords 
creditor were évêché. It was the count Thiébaud VIII, lord of 
Neuchâtel and Blamont, Viscount of Balsam, nephew of the Humbert 
bishop, who was invested by his uncle of temporal suzerainty and the 
avoca-tie of the city and the châtellenie of Saint-Ursanne. The 20 
and on February 22, 1407 it approved, recognized and confirmed 
freedoms, franknesses and privileges of the city and the chapter of 
Saint-Ursanne. It declared the solicitor and the tutor of this 
church, charged to defend it, like had made his grandfather, the 
count Thiébaud VI of good memory and his other predecessors. The 
bishop of Basle had in prévôté of Saint-Ursanne of the important 
rights that Humbert of Neuchâtel made recognize by an act 
authenticates, as well as those of the chapter, May 14, 1407. This 
act is only one reproduction of a drawn up similar charter on 
October 27, 1369 per Jean of Vienna, bishop of Basle. We will quote 
of it only the preamble which milked with the concerns of Humbert of 
Neuchâtel: "Since we came to the government from the church from 
Basle, our wife, and of the diocese of Basle, we are enquis rights 
which belong to us in this diocese, and in particular of those which 
us qualified, as bishop of Basle, on the church of Saint-Ursanne. 
Covered authentic letters of the seals of our predecessors the 
bishops of Basle and others, acts and witnesses worthy of faith, old 
people built us on the privileges of this church." A royalty 
extremely curious imposed on the chapter about Saint-Ursanne is 
announced in an act of this time. When the year was bissextile, the 
canons were to give to the archbishop of Besancon their subway, a 
boiler of sufficient size to make there cook an ox, and a bolt of 
canvas. It is believed that this tax was a recognition of the old 
jurisdiction whose archbishops of Besancon still enjoyed on the 
abbey Saint-Ursanne to XIe century. September 29, 1405, the chapter 
paid ten franks with the governor of Mandeure for the archbishop of 
Besancon, Etienne de Villars, priest, canon of Montbeliard. These 
ten franks represented the boiler and the surplis due for the leap 
year 1404, "as accoutumey is of grant time." On the end of XVe 
century, the Charles archbishop of Neuchâtel drew up réglement on 
this subject (October 27, 1486). The boiler was to be of good bronze 
and manufactured well, of the weight of thirty books and a capacity 
of four water tines, measures of Mandeure, neither more nor less 
(approximately two hundred liters). As for the bolt of canvas, it 
was to be chosen and fine, of sufficient quantity and quality 
specific to make a suitable ratchet with episcopal dignity, the 
whole rendable with the castle of Mandeure to the expenses of the 
chapter. At the XVIIe century, the boiler was to be, either of 
bronze, but of red copper, weight of thirty books and a capacity of 
two tines of Germany. The bolt of canvas was to be thirty to thirty-
two ells and to be able to pass by the ring of the archbishop. To 
the XVIIIe century one reduced this royalty to five ells of cambric 
specific to a ratchet or a surplis. When the royalty was paid out of 
money, it rose of one hundred fifty to two hundred books. The 
chapter discharged for the last time of this load in 1784.

Hartmann Münch did not change anything with its modest way of life; 
it continued to live in Basle the canonic house which it occupied, 
being satisfied with only one chaplain, a servant, a schoolboy and a 
maidservant. Close to Muttentz, it had laid out a small castle which 
one called Fröscheneck where it liked to take some rest. To share 
with him the load of the administration diocésaine, it associated 
his parents, Jean Thuring Münch who were an archdeacon of Basle and 
provost of Saint-Ursanne, and Jean de Flachsland. pp. the 469-470 
pope and the chapter of Basle had not been able to make a better 
choice. The first and the principal concern of Jean de Fleckenstein 
were to make return in the church of Basle, the committed fields. It 
started by claiming with the count Thié-baud VIII of Neuchâtel in 
Burgundy, the town of Saint-Ursanne, the castles of Spiegelberg, 
Pleujouse, of Rock-with gold which since long years, were between 
the hands of this noble family. Thiébaud VIII refused to return 
these pledges which it had been accustomed to look like belonging to 
him. Jean de Fleckenstein did not hesitate; though friend of peace, 
it understood that the for this weapons could only restore a right 
to him which was denied to him, in spite of the promises written and 
lent solemnly. He secured the support and the help of his large 
friends, the bishops of Cologne and Mainz, of the Count Palatine 
Louis, the marquis de Baden Bernard, his brother the bishop of 
Worms. With the assistance of these famous characters, it could set 
up a strong army of thousand two hundred riders ordered by the count 
Jean de Thierstein. Basle lent also its help to the bishop and took 
makes and causes for him. The quota bâlois was placed under the 
orders of the burgomaster of the city Burkhard ze Rhein which was 
committed not slackening, without the assent of the prelate, the 
prisoners who could fall between his hands. At the same time, Basle 
poured, for expenses of war, six thousand guilders of gold between 
the hands of Jean de Fleckenstein who engaged in return the 
episcopal seal. Forwarding was pushed with strength. In three days, 
the city and the castle of Saint-Ursanne, the castles of Rock-of 
gold, Pleujouse and Spiegelberg returned between the hands of their 
legitimate lord and Master, the bishop of Basle. This easy success 
is not enough in Bâlois. They push until Héricourt, city of the 
fields of Thiébaud of Neuchâtel, and make the seat of it. The 
strengthened castle cannot resist the reiterated attacks and the 
bombardment directed by experienced chiefs, like the counts de 
Montjoie, of Thierstein, the noble Louis de Lich-tenberg. Héricourt 
was taken on November 11, 1425; the city and the castle were 
delivered to plundering, then with the flames. The historical 
documents on this warlike forwarding are very sober details and we 
do not have that some quite dry lines on these feats of arms which 
must have their importance. However a verbal lawsuit of 1425, 
discovered on the back of an old register of the files of Porrentruy 
brings some details curious to us on forwarding about the army 
bâloise. The baillif of Austria made open an investigation into the 
damage which the châtellenie of Ferrette on this occasion had wiped. 
It was the lord of the manor of Ferrette, Jean lord of Florimont 
which was in charge of this business. October 30, 1425, the 
witnesses and plaintiffs were brought together in Ferrette, with the 
home of Henselme Bomgart; the lord of the manor made them lend oath 
of saying all the truth. The first heard witness was Jean wire of 
Henselme Bonquiger, of Perugia (Haut-Rhin). He declared that, when 
the lord of Neuchâtel was with his people in Perugia, the Lent 
passed, there was, by the fault of the soldiers of the count, a fire 
which destroyed two houses... etc. After the war, one made peace. 
The count Jean of Freiburg and Neuchâtel, the towns of Bern and 
Freiburg interposed their good officess and regulated the conditions 
of the repurchase of S.-Ursanne and the castles taken again by the 
force, which had been engaged by the bishop Imier de Ramstein for 
seven thousand franks. The agreement between Jean de Fleckenstein 
and the count Thiébaud VIII were concluded in 1426 and restored 
peace. p. 478 It was, known as chaplain N Gérung, eyewitness of his 
episcopate, a careful lord, and expert in the secular businesses, it 
was very considered of the nobility of the country; though stiff, it 
was very clean with the command. One of its first acts, at once 
after its installation, was of going to Saint-Ursanne, with the 
provost cathedral to receive it the oath of fidelity middle-class ds 
of this city and to grant to them the confirmation of their 
franknesses (March 20, 1437). At the same time, it returned in 
possession of the castle of Chauvilier (Kalenberg, with-of-under 
Saint-Ursanne) that Jean de Fleckenstein had given in guard, at 
money price after its forwarding of 1425. One had to pay to the 
count Humbert of the Rock 1350 guilders of the Rhine for the guard 
of this castle which fell in ruins; Frederic ze the Rhine rebuilds 
it suitably. He also made important constructions and repairs in the 
castle of Rock-of gold and besides. p. 482 the chapter of Saint-
Ursanne was at that time in quarrel with the city on the subject of 
the sale of the wine. One begged the bishop Frederic ze Rhein to 
interpose his good officess and to finish the disagreement. The 
prelate went to Saint-Ursanne, May 2, 1446 and decided that from now 
on the inhabitants would pay in the chapter for each cart-load of 
wine (pro qualibet carrata vini) which they will sell, (right to 
sell which they have of any seniority) thirty sums of money bâlois; 
on its side the chapter must have with its expenses a measurement 
known as ein sum zuber, as in Murbach, which would be used to 
measure the vases with which one sells the wine. Volume II p. 12 
Saint-Ursanne was also the object of the favours of the bishop, who 
sought to raise this town of a recent disaster. The winter of 1462 
had been very rigorous: Doubs had been entirely cold. When the thaw 
arrived, the ice floes accumulated above the mill which stopped them 
in their race and made as a stone dam which was opposed to the water 
run-off. The channel of the mill ends up breaking and the ices with 
ground clusters and stones precipitated with violence against the 
bridge of the city and covered their remains all the meadows of 
surrounding. The inhabitants of the city hastened to charge of wood 
and other materials the threatened bridge and escaped 
de.toutes.parts. In this serious danger, they had recourse to their 
happy owner S. Ursanne and made celebrate a mass in its honor. At 
once all returned in the order and the bridge remained on its 
foundations. All that occurred the day from Ste Agathe (February 5, 
1462). Such is the account of the schoolmaster of Saint-Ursanne, 
preserved in the book of life of the chapter. (1) Jean de Venningen 
came to assistance of the city by assure him the right of omgeld 
which belonged to the bishop of Basle, provided that the middle-
class Master, the council and the inhabitants would employ this 
income with the restoration of their walls, turns, ditches and other 
buildings, according to the councils and directions of the chapters 
of Basle and Saint-Ursanne, to which they were to return account 
each year of the product and the use of this omgeld. The inhabitant 
and the canons still accepted other privileges for the sale of the 
wine, since St Michel until Christmas (June 11, 1463). (2) (1) Ex 
Libro vitae S. Ursicini, fol. 1 (2) Files of S. Ursanne. The act is 
provided with the seals of the bishop, his chapter, that of Saint-
Ursanne and the city. p. 13 The chapter of Saint-Ursanne was then in 
a financial position which required pressing remedies. There had 
been excessive expenditure, make without direction and need. Jean de 
Venningen, in.liaison.with the provost Gaspard ze Rhein, who formed 
at the same time part of the chapter of Basle, brought to the 
statutes canons of Saint-Ursanne of the important modifications 
which were to bring back the order in finances of the chapter. One 
regulated the transport charges of the wines of Habsheim in Alsace, 
pertaining to the church of Saint-Ursanne. One obliged each new 
canon or prebendary to pour in the case of factory five books 
bâloises for the maintenance of the church and twelve guilders for 
the purchase of a cover of chorus. All new chaplain was to apply to 
the factory of the church, the incomes of his vault, during the 
first year. The treasurer of the chapter was to always be selected 
among the canons. One allows the canons and other bénéficiers of 
Saint-Ursanne to go each year during twenty days to the natural 
baths, according to their needs; they will be regarded as present at 
the offices of the chapter (April 6, 1466). (1) (1) Of the original 
on parchment with the seals of the bishop and the provost, with the 
files of old évêché of Basle.

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