year: 1129
initiator: Willelmus prior Sancti Sepulcri
recipient: Daughter of Petrus Sancti Lazari
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: c. Dec. 1 – 24. [43] When Petrus Sancti Lazari, a confrater [frater] of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, died, his daughter, who was a minor, and her mother asked to be able to hold the feodum of Sancti Lazari for their sustenance until the daughter should marry, after which the service owed for the fief would be resumed. When the daughter reached marriageable age the canons wanted to marry her to their famulus Petrus, whom they had brought up [noster nutritus]. The mother was vehemently opposed although she did not want to lose the fief in her lifetime. Brought with her mother, step-father [victricus], male protectors [patrini] and other lay people before Patriarch Stephen and the canons in chapter, the daughter stated that she would rather beg than marry against her mother’s will. She returned the fief to the canons on condition that her mother and step-father should continue to enjoy it for their lives. W[illelmus], third prior of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, records the canons’ agreement and their decision to provide for the son of the mother and her husband after their death. Witnesses: Anselmus cantor; Ato; Gislebertus; Petrus Bernardi; Gaudencius; Petrus elemosinarius; Aimericus; Gaufridus Acus; Petrus de Vendosme; Berengarius Parvus. Patriarch Stephen seals the deed.
c. Dec. 1 – 24. [43] When Petrus Sancti Lazari, a confrater [frater] of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, died, his daughter, who was a minor, and her mother asked to be able to hold the feodum of Sancti Lazari for their sustenance until the daughter should marry, after which the service owed for... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 160-1, no. 65 (RRH no. 128)
year: 1135
initiator: Maria de Sancto Lazaro
recipient: Bernardus, brother of Petrus prior Sancti Sepulcri
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Dec. 25 1134 – Dec. 24 1135. Jerusalem. In the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre. Record of an agreement made between Maria de Sancto Lazaro, the wife of Rogerius, a cliens of the Holy Sepulchre, and Bernardus, the brother of Petrus prior Sancti Sepulcri and a cliens of the patriarch. Maria had wedded her daughter to Bernardus in the presence of the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre. Her first husband Petrus had presented the daughter with a dowry of 100 besants and had invested her with the usufruct of a vineyard that he had planted. Petrus also left Bernardus a fourth part of a house situated in Jerusalem in the platea Templi next to the house of Bentulinus, to be held after his death. Another part was left to his son, although it would pass to Bernardus if the son died. Maria challenged the gift of the house. The case was heard in the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre in the presence of patriarcha Willelmus; Petrus subprior; of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Anselmus cantor; Goffridus thesaurarius; magister Robertus; and in the presence of Anschetinus, quondam vicecomes Hierosolymitanus; Rainaldus de Pontibus; Goiffridus Acu. They judged that Bernardus should have the fourth part of the house acquired by Maria and her second husband Rogerius after their death; similarly another fourth part should pass to Bernardus after the death of Maria’s son. Witnesses: Petrus prior; Petrus de Barcinona; Willelmus Normannus; Godefridus; Vulgrinus; Evrardus; Gervasius; of the burgenses, Oldreus; Milo; Bentulinus; Bernardus Lemovicensis; Petrus Petragorici; Arnulfus de Gorranti; Bernardus Bituricensis.
Dec. 25 1134 – Dec. 24 1135. Jerusalem. In the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre. Record of an agreement made between Maria de Sancto Lazaro, the wife of Rogerius, a cliens of the Holy Sepulchre, and Bernardus, the brother of Petrus prior Sancti Sepulcri and a cliens of the patriarch. Maria had wedded... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 220-2, no. 102 (RRH no. 158)
year: 1145
initiator: Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior
recipient: Andreas, son of Odierda
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Mar. 11 1144 – Aug. 13 1145. Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior records that when an inhabitant of Mahumeria, a woman called Odierda, became a consoror of the Holy Sepulchre, she gave the community a vineyard. When she died her son Andreas held on to it for a long time against the canons’ will. Robertus Nazarenus archiepiscopus, Fulcherius Tyrensis archiepiscopus, Bernardus Sydoniensis episcopus, Rorgo Ptolomaidensis episcopus, Helias of Tiberiadensis episcopus, Rogerius Ramathensis episcopus and others judged that the fruits of the vineyard should be enjoyed by the canons, but the canons, moved by charity, have remitted the fruits to Andreas and have conceded the vineyard to him for life on condition that they receive a third of the harvest and the tithe, and the vineyard itself on his death. Witnesses: Lambertus subprior; Godefridus thesaurarius; Nicholaus cellararius; Obertus Joppensis; Robertus de Acchon; Alexander; Bertrandus; Ademarus; Willelmus prepositus; Lambertus Flandrensis; Aimericus; Fulco; Bertoldus; Johannes Anglicus; of the deacons, Eurardus; Giraldus; Hugo; of the subdeacons, Willelmus Berytensis; Johannes Pictavensis; Willelmus de Yspania.
Mar. 11 1144 – Aug. 13 1145. Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior records that when an inhabitant of Mahumeria, a woman called Odierda, became a consoror of the Holy Sepulchre, she gave the community a vineyard. When she died her son Andreas held on to it for a long time against the canons’ will.... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 163-4, no. 67 (RRH no. 229)
year: 1159
initiator: Canons of the Holy Sepulchre
recipient: Robertus de Retesta
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: 1158 - 1159. The canons of the Holy Sepulchre come to an agreement with Robertus de Retesta, who had challenged the boundary of the land of Birra, which is now called Mahumeria and is contiguous to his casale called Salome. The prior and canons call witnesses who authenticate the boundary drawn for King Baldwin I when he gave that land to them. They allow Robertus to employ the burgenses of Birra to cultivate his lands, which produce grain, oil, vegetables, and have vines and trees. The tithes owed by the burgenses - otherwise owed to the canons - will be reserved to Robertus with respect to his lands, and he will pay these tithes to his lords. The burgenses will have no authority to infringe the rights of Robertus. Witnesses: Radulfus Strabo; Adam Niger; ejus frater Fulco; Symon burgensis Jerusalem; Balduinus de Tornai; Petrus Joppensis; Arnulfus filius ejus; Johannes Guidardus.
1158 - 1159. The canons of the Holy Sepulchre come to an agreement with Robertus de Retesta, who had challenged the boundary of the land of Birra, which is now called Mahumeria and is contiguous to his casale called Salome. The prior and canons call witnesses who authenticate the boundary drawn for... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 247-8, no. 122 (RRH no. 272)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
687
year: 1162
initiator: Petrus Tyrensis archiepiscopus
recipient: Willelmus abbas of Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
institution: Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
additional institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Dec. 25 1161 - Dec. 24 1162. Petrus Tyrensis archiepiscopus confirms an agreement made by him, when he was prior of the Holy Sepulchre, and G. abbas of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat. This ended a dispute over lands at Castrum Feniculi. On a date that had been agreed G. abbas with some of his monks and Petrus with some of his canons met on the site under the mediation of B. Cesariensis archiepiscopus, together with good and faithful men of Caesarea who knew the boundary divisions there. Men chosen from either side walked the bounds from the palm tree to the carob tree, from the carob tree to the sugar cane plantation, from the sugar cane plantation in a direct line to the river [a palmo usque ad carrobletum, a carrobleto usque ad cannetum, a canneto usque ad flumariam recta linea]. Petrus then conceded to St Mary the land, shaped like a tongue, beyond the sugar cane plantation [terram quę a canneto in ultra, quę quasi lingua est], so that the boundary line should be established from the sugar cane plantation across to the river [a canneto per transversum ad flumariam]. Witnesses: B. Cesariensis archiepiscopus; and of the boni viri, Manasses; Gervasius; Aeris de Area; Emelinus miles; Arnaldus Curta Capa; Georgius Herminius; Rainaldus Belgrant and many others.
Dec. 25 1161 - Dec. 24 1162. Petrus Tyrensis archiepiscopus confirms an agreement made by him, when he was prior of the Holy Sepulchre, and G. abbas of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat. This ended a dispute over lands at Castrum Feniculi. On a date that had been agreed G. abbas with some of his... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 148-9, no. 57 (RRH no. 375)
year: 1163
initiator: Raymond III, count of Tripoli
recipient: Bertrandus abbas of Mount Tabor and Petrus de Nimenes
institution: Mount Tabor
text: Feb. 18 - Dec. 24. [94] Acre. Raymond III comes Tripolitanus records under seal his arbitration in a dispute between on one side Bernardus abbas Montis Thabor and on the other Petrus de Nimenes and his brother of the same name. Agreement was reached in the house of Giraldus de Conilz in Acre. Bernardus, together with the chapter of Mt Tabor sold the lease to whatever the abbey had in the neighbourhood of the city of Tripoli, a casale called Betahmum situated in the territory of Mont Pèlerin and everything else it possessed in the county of Tripoli to Petrus de Nimenes and his brother for 25 years. Petrus de Nimenes and his brother had to make a down payment of 900 besants and provide an annual census of 100 Saracen besants, payable at Easter. After 25 years the casale and the other properties would revert to the abbey, irrespective of any improvements that had been made to them. The brothers could alienate the properties by sale, pledge or gift within the 25 years, provided they were not granted to any religious community or secular knights [milites] and the abbey continued to enjoy the census. The abbey will have preemption rights. If the Muslims [hostes Crucis Christi] should destroy the houses, olive trees or vineyards, the brothers would be absolved paying rent until they could do so. Witnesses: Garinus, prior ecclesie Montis Thabor; Jacobus subprior; Dominicus cantor; Geraldus monacus; Gervasius monacus; Lancelinus monacus; Ademarus monacus; Nicolaus monacus; Petrus monacus; Stephanus monacus; Rainerius monacus; Johannes monacus; Hugo monacus; Arnulfus cellararius; Stephanus monachus; Johannes monachus; Hugo monachus; Martinus monacus; Marcus monacus; of the lay brothers, Johannes; Odo; Radulfus; of the turcopoli, Petrus Baptizatus; filius ejus; Gofridus; Martinus Daragun; nepos ejus; Stefanus; Odo; Galo; Durannus; Petrus de Cafarset; Pontius; Tancredus; filius ejus; Godefridus; Giraldus and many others; with Galcherius de Nazaret; representing Petrus de Nimenes and his brother Petrus, Raimundus comes Tripolitanus; Hugo Sine Censu Tripolis constabularius; Willelmus Porcelet; Salamanc; Pipinus de Vignoles; Willelmus Ervei; Petrus de Luneres; Ripertus Malsanc; Ridellus Montis Peregrini castellanus; Raiz Escandar; Bernardus S. Nazarii; frater Raimundus Escatius; Hugo; of the brothers of the Hospital, Willelmus; Jordanus Davignus; Pontius Caiphe; Pontius S. Egidii.
Feb. 18 - Dec. 24. [94] Acre. Raymond III comes Tripolitanus records under seal his arbitration in a dispute between on one side Bernardus abbas Montis Thabor and on the other Petrus de Nimenes and his brother of the same name. Agreement was reached in the house of Giraldus de Conilz in Acre.... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:904-5, no. 13 (RRH no. 389)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1011
year: 1178
initiator: Geraldus Tiberiadensis episcopus
recipient: Jean abbot of Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
institution: Saint George in the diocese of Tiberias
additional institution: Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
text: Dec. 25 1177 - Dec. 24 1178. Following mediation by dominus Letardus Nazarenus archiepiscopus and dominus Joscius Acconensis episcopus, dominus Geraldus Tiberiadensis episcopus and his chapter and dominus Johannes abbas vallis Josaphat and his chapter reach agreement in a dispute between the church of Tiberias and St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat over the church of St George in the diocese of Tiberias and over tithes owed on the lands held in the diocese. The monks of St Mary will never receive for purification those who are interdicted or excommunicated by the bishop of Tiberias or parishioners in the diocese. They will bury no one except their brothers, their servants [servientes] and Suriani, nor will they ever baptize or marry Latin Christians, although they can conduct marriages for the Suriani. They may celebrate services with doors closed [in times of interdict]. Married men and women may profess into the religious life with the permission of their spouses. The monks can receive gifts left by anyone to them in their wills; Unmarried men or women [aliquis inuxoratus vel inuxerata] can make gifts to St Mary, saving the rights of the church of Tiberias. The church of St George will present the church of Tiberias 2 rotae of wax [cerei], each weighing 2 rotae every year on the Feast of St George. The church of St George will also render to the church of Tiberias each year 10 besants of good weight in place of tithes. Witnesses: dominus archiepiscopus; Joscius Acconensis episcopus; episcopus Tyberiadensis; Johannes abbas Vallis Josaphat; Tetbaldus canonicus Nazarenus; Durannus thesaurarius; Robertus cantor Tyberiadensis; Leo; Guido monachus; Arnaldus Gasco; and others.
Dec. 25 1177 - Dec. 24 1178. Following mediation by dominus Letardus Nazarenus archiepiscopus and dominus Joscius Acconensis episcopus, dominus Geraldus Tiberiadensis episcopus and his chapter and dominus Johannes abbas vallis Josaphat and his chapter reach agreement in a dispute between the church... more
sources: Delaborde, Chartes, pp. 87-8, no. 40 (RRH no. 563)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1656
year: 1212
initiator: Patriarch Albert of Jerusalem Gualterus episcopus Acconensis and Andreas vicecomes Venetorum
recipient: Simon Rufferius vicecomes Januensium in Accon and Bonacurtius Anselmeti consul Pisanorum in Accon
text: Apr. 12. Acre. In the bishop’s palatium. Patriarch Albert of Jerusalem, Gualterus episcopus Acconensis and Andreas vicecomes Venetorum arbitrate in a dispute between Simon Rufferius vicecomes Januensium in Accon, representing his commune, and Bonacurtius Anselmeti consul Pisanorum in Accon, representing his commune, over the burgesia of Agnes Gastaldi, which Simon claims belongs to the commune of Genoa because it is situated in the ruga S. Laurentii, which is leased out by the commune. Bonacurtius, on the other hand, maintains that the commune of Genoa can claim nothing from Agnes other than the rent [census], because she has had the house for a very long time. The arbitration is as follows. The Genoese vicecomes and jurati curiae suae stress that they bear no ill will towards Agnes, who had sold part of the house without their permission. They now confirm the sale on condition that the purchaser, Lucensis the widow of Bartholomaeus de Dominis, pays them a rent of half a besant a year. The rest of the house remains in possession of Agnes, who, together with her relations the sons of Ubertus de Maria, pays a rent of 10 besants a year to the commune. Agnes and Lucensis will answer to the vicecomes and his curia de Burgesia, as do other burgenses. The agreement is ratified by Bonacurtius consul Pisanorum in Accon, with the agreement of Simon Chimicosus, Burgundius de Bandino, Sanutus, Loterius Bubeus, Moroneus and other Pisans; and by Simon, the [Genoese] vicecomes, with the agreement of the consules Januensium Jacobus Mallon and Otho de Insulis, together with Marinus de Bulgaro, Guillelmus Busce, Rubaldus de castello and other Genoese, together with the jurati curiae Januensis, magister Otho Fulcherius, Jacobus de Angla, Obertus Astalibeta and Jacobus de Roduan, who swore to abide by the agreement, which is sealed with the seals of the arbitrators.
Apr. 12. Acre. In the bishop’s palatium. Patriarch Albert of Jerusalem, Gualterus episcopus Acconensis and Andreas vicecomes Venetorum arbitrate in a dispute between Simon Rufferius vicecomes Januensium in Accon, representing his commune, and Bonacurtius Anselmeti consul Pisanorum in Accon,... more
sources: Ughelli, Italia 4:795-6 (RRH no. 858)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1877
year: 1221
initiator: Dominus Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and his canons
recipient: Garinus de Monte Acuto, master of the Hospital of St John
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: May 1-31. Damietta. In the presence of Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, the dominus Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and his canons and frater Guarinus de Monte Acuto magister Hospitalis agree to end the disputes between the bishop and his canons and the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. (1) The bishop sought the payment of twentieths [half tithes] on 2 vineyards, one next to the town, the other a large vineyard that was planted by frater Americus de Pax beyond the garden belonging to St Mary of the Latins. An earlier charter of agreement had specified that twentieths should be paid to the bishop by the Hospitallers on the grain grown on land cultivated by them; and since payment had been paid to his predecessors of a twentieth of the grain crop on the greater vineyard that was now planted with vines, payment should be made on the wine. With respect to the other vineyard next to the city, the twentieth ought to be paid because although in the charter payment was to be made for grain, wine was not specifically excepted, and so ought to be included in the agreement. The magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John argued that they were not bound to pay twentieths on vineyards, first because grain and not wine was referred to in the charter and secondly because, although they were subject to canon law, they had the privilege of exemption from the payment of tithes. When, after being granted that privilege, an agreement was made to pay twentieths on grain, only grain was mentioned and no other produce, and payment now would seem to prejudice their rights. They were not bound to pay twentieths on the vineyard which is next to the town, because they were exempt by the charter from paying tithes on anything other than grain and grain had never been grown there. It had been a garden and tithes were not paid on gardens. (2) The bishop claimed a quarter of everything left intestate to the Hospital in the city of Acre, on the basis of a decretal of Pope Innocent [III]. The Hospitallers stated that their churches were immune from any episcopal yoke or service and enjoyed the fullest freedom and because of that immunity they were not bound to pay the quarter of intestate goods; and they were anyway protected by forty-year prescriptive right. (3) The bishop maintained that the brother chaplains and others ought not to visit his parishioners to confer the divine sacraments, unless the Hospital paid that quarter of intestate goods to the church of the Holy Cross, and he wanted to prohibit the brother chaplains and others in the city of Acre from preaching sermons in the churches of the Hospital. The Hospitallers replied that the churches of the Hospital ought to have the right to organize visitations and that the brother chaplains and others ought to hear confessions and take the body of Christ and go to the sick with a cross and enjoin penance on them in whatever parish of Acre they wanted, without seeking permission from the bishop of Acre, and to preach in Hospital’s churches and cemetery. The two parties now agreed the following. (1) The Hospitallers will pay the bishop of Acre the twentieths on the two vineyards, but will give nothing relating to the trees in the vineyards or to the fruit of the trees. Nothing will be paid from the produce of gardens, if those gardens are converted into vineyards, but payment ought to be made on uncultivated and deserted lands if vineyards are planted on them. (2) The bishop of Acre and the canons remit to the Hospitallers the quarter of intestate goods left to the churches of the Hospital in full and perpetual freedom. (3) The conventual prior of the Hospital and the other chaplains in the Hospital’s churches or cemetery can preach whenever they want to do so, but they cannot advertise their sermons on fixed days. They can visit the sick with cross and procession and hear their confessions in whatever parish they wish or in the house of the Hospital and bring them the Body of Christ and enjoin penance on them and provide those who choose burial with them with other sacraments. And since it is the office of the brothers of the Hospital to receive the bodies of the dead and the sick from the squares in the city and to bury the dead, they can bury them, unless they desire burial elsewhere, and they can transport the sick to their house whenever they wish to do so, unless the infirm themselves prohibit it. The gifts, alms, oblations, legacies and intestate goods received by the the Hospital, whether from those who choose, or do not choose, burial, and whether from pilgrims or parishioners, shall belong to the Hospital. When the brother chaplains and others of the Hospital and the chaplains of the bishop of Acre visit the sick they should advise them to make benefactions to the cathedral church of the Holy Cross and the house of the Hospital after their death, if they should so wish, before they are buried. The bishop of Acre will ordain the clerics presented to him by the conventual prior of the Hospital, as long as they have licence from their bishops and as long as the Order promises by letters patent, which the bishop will keep, that they will provide livelihood for these clerics in perpetuity. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and frater Guarinus de Monte Acuto Hospitalis magister confirm the agreement and affix their seals. Witnesses: of the canons of the church of Acre, Constancius decanus; Pelagius archydiaconus; Johannes precentor; Nicolaus thesaurarius, Anselmus; of the brothers of the Hospital of St John, frater Ferraudus de Barraz marescalcus; frater Golferius preceptor; frater Henricus hospitalarius; frater Poncius Boschant drapperius. [324]
May 1-31. Damietta. In the presence of Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, the dominus Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and his canons and frater Guarinus de Monte Acuto magister Hospitalis agree to end the disputes between the bishop and his canons and the magister and brothers of the... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:286-8, no. 1718 (RRH no. 945)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1920
year: 1222
initiator: Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate
recipient: Genoese and Pisans
text: Jun. 10. Tyre. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, records his judgement in a dispute between the Genoese and Pisans that had led to warfare throughout the city of Acre. He has inspected a previous agreement on the resolution of disputes within 8 days between the 3 communities of Venetians, Genoese and Pisans, according to which when 2 were involved, the third should mediate. He enjoined the balius Venetorum to do so, although the representatives of the Pisans argued that the previous agreement had been dissolved when warfare had broken out between them and the Genoese. When, moreover, Ugo Cancellarius had been appointed consul [of the Genoese] he had not taken an oath to abide by it. Having taken the advice of patriarcha Jerosolimitanus, archiepiscopus Tyrensis, Beetlemiensis episcopus, Valentinus episcopus, abbas Montis Syon, abbas Sancte Marie de valle Josaphat, abbas de Latina and many others, Pelagius ordered the archbishop of Tyre to announce that the balius Venetorum ought to acknowledge his role according to the sworn agreement of the 3 communities. The judgement is written by by Almerius sacri imperii notarius et iudex ordinarius.
Jun. 10. Tyre. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, records his judgement in a dispute between the Genoese and Pisans that had led to warfare throughout the city of Acre. He has inspected a previous agreement on the resolution of disputes within 8 days between the 3 communities of... more
sources: Bigoni, ‘Quattro documenti’, pp. 57-9, no. 1 (RRH no. 955)