Heinrich von Rottenburg in seinem geographischen Umfeld

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Abstract

The geographical environment of Heinrich of Rottenburg

The following seminar paper analyses the mobility of the aristocrat Heinrich of Rottenburg, who lived in the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. He was one of the most powerful and wealthiest Tyroleans and was continually travelling around by command of duke Friedrich IV. This paper tries to illustrate Heinrich of Rottenburg's travel accounts and under which conditions they took place. For this purpose, it is also necessary to take his life into consideration. The main findings of this thesis rely on the original account book of Heinrich of Rottenburg.