RRR: Privilege/exemption
1276
year: 1190
initiator: Guy of Lusignan and Queen Sibylla
recipient: All men from Amalfi
text: Apr. 10. In the siege camp before Acre. Rewarding the Amalfitans for their good service to the crown and to Christianity, Guy, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Ierusalem Latinorum rex VIIIus and the Lady Queen Sibylla, his wife, grant under seal to all men from Amalfi and its possessions, from wherever they come, freedom in Acre on entry and departure by sea and land with all their merchandise and goods and freedom to sell and buy without the payment of any dues [drictura]. Guy and Sibylla give freedom from the payment of all terciaria, ancorandum and ancoragium by all great and small Amalfitan vessels, including coastal ones [omnia ligna de riveria], and the right to have a curia in Acre, together with a vicecomes and consules to administer it, just as have the Venetians, Pisans and Genoese, and a house in which it will sit. Witnesses: Comes Iocelinus regius senescalcus; Hugo Tyberiadis; Gaufridus Tortus; Galganus de Cheneche; Alelmus Bellus; Rainerius de Gibeleto; Antellmus de Luca; Raimundus de Nefin. The charter was drawn up by Petrus regius cancellarius et Tripolitane ecclesie archidiaconus.
Apr. 10. In the siege camp before Acre. Rewarding the Amalfitans for their good service to the crown and to Christianity, Guy, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Ierusalem Latinorum rex VIIIus and the Lady Queen Sibylla, his wife, grant under seal to all men from Amalfi and its possessions, from... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:812-14, 855, nos. 478, 514 (RRH no. 690)