Notes and Documents for the Play Rudolf of Habsburg

The Count, however, having passed through Basel on a certain occasion, the Mariscalcus Marshal/Master of the Citizens understood this, summoned the citizens, and had them pursue Count Rudolf. The Marshal himself pursued the fugitive with a few John's men, and when he arrived at the enemies almost alone, they seized him and quickly killed him. After this, he went freely wherever he wished, because the citizens of Basel, on account of the disloyalty of their own men, did not dare to attack him.

A woman in a village near Bern cohabits with a man for ten years and could not be known by the man: by spiritual judgment, she is separated from the husband. Setting out for Rome in the jubilee year, at Bologna, her vagina is cut open by a surgeon: a male organ with testicles emerges. Having returned home, she takes a wife, performs farm work, and copulates with her wife legitimately and sufficiently. !!

1297.

Around the Nativity of the Lord, a certain cleric in the city of Basel had his virile parts cut off on account of a certain young girl and hung in the middle of the city !!!

1287.

Conrad of Würzburg died, a compiler of many good compositions in German.

1284.

Henry, Bishop of Basel, celebrated ordinations in Columbaria likely Colmar; he had in his retinue an Ethiopian dressed in white clothes and a dwarf, namely Knight Konrad, whose height could not reach three feet.

1283.

A potter died in Horpstatt, who was the first in Alsace to coat earthenware vessels with glass.