Lyon county
The county of Lyon around the city of Lyon existed since the 6th century . Counts of Lyons were Gerhard of Roussillon , in 870 Boso of Vienne and in 885 Bernard Plantevelue .
Subsequently, Lyon belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy, later (942) to the Duchy of Burgundy . Towards the end of the 10th century , Artaud, another count, appears, whose descendants owned Lyon until the 12th century , when other counts were appointed by the emperor .
From this point on, the counts were in rivalry with the Archbishop of Lyon ; In 1167 the count paid homage to the French King Louis VII for the county of Forez, which had been in personal union with Lyon since 1029 at the latest .
In 1173 the county was divided: the archbishop received the valleys, the count the mountains. From now on, the archbishop was lord of Lyon and des Lyonnais under the sole sovereignty of the emperor. The archbishop took advantage of the situation of being the servant of two masters with property in France and in the empire to actually give himself independent, but also to deny the city of Lyon a communal constitution in 1208. Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa confirmed this situation in several bulls . On this basis, the archbishop and count succeeded in making Lyon the site of the First Council of Lyon and the Second Council of Lyon and the coronation of Pope Clement V (1305).
The Capetians, on the other hand, tried to intervene in the affairs of the county, especially since the archbishop was also a primate of the Church in France. They influenced the occupation of the archbishop's chair and forced the recognition of their oversight over the judiciary in 1269. In 1271, the residents of the city of Lyon submitted to the protection of the king, and in 1274, during the council, Philip III set up the building. his rule in the city. In 1288, Lyon and the archbishop count were forbidden from relations with the empire. The king now raised taxes in the city. In 1307 the jurisdiction was transferred to the king, so that the archbishop-count only had the coin, the road toll and the commercial taxes.
The council of 1312 consequently took place in Vienne .
In 1320 Lyon received its municipal constitution, in 1340/42 the Archbishop-Count gave up his last rights to the city.