RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
443
year: 1144
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
additional institution: Saint Lazarus in Bethany
text: Mid Apr. – Sept. 23. Baldwin, dei gratia sanctᶒ Iherusalem rex Latinorum quartus, confirms the exchange made by King Fulk and Queen Melisende with the canons of the Holy Sepulchre to establish temporalities for the church of St Lazarus at Bethania. He confirms the canons’ possession of the casale of Thecua, with all its lands, villani and Beduini, and the right of the residents of Thecua to collect bitumen, vulgarly called catran, from the Dead Sea and salt from its shores. He confirms under seal the gifts made by Patriarch William of Jerusalem, Petrus prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre to Abbess Matilda and the nuns at St Lazarus of Bethany of buildings [ędificia], beneficia and houses outside and in Jerusalem and of the following casalia with their villani, Beduini and other appurtenances: Benehatiᶒ, Benehabeth, Ragabani and Romah. Witnesses: Guillelmus Iheruslem patriarcha; Balduinus archiepiscopus Cesariensis; Robertus archiepiscopus Nazareth; Helias episcopus Tyberiadensis; Rogerius Ramathensis episcopus; Reinerius Sebastensis episcopus; Gaufridus abbas Templi Domini; Sehebrandus abbas Sanctᶒ Mariᶒ Latinᶒ; Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior; Henricus Montis Oliveti prior; Raimundus Hospitalis magister; Petrus Guillelmi; Stephanus de Capella; Guillelmus Fauco; Gaufridus Fulcherii frater Templi Salomonici; Godefridus thesaurarius ᶒcclesiᶒ Sepulcri Domini; Guillelmus prepositus; Petrus Bernardi; Petrus Barchinonensis; Nicholaus; Lambertus Grossus; Bertrandus de Podio; magister Bᶒda; Obertus; Gamaliel; Giraldus Bastardus; Moyses; Bonefacius; Eurardus; Robertus Achconensis; Guillelmus Berithensis; Guillelmus Anglicus; and of the barones, Balianus; Rainerius Ramathensis; Ioscelinus de Cortenai; Galterius Berithensis; Rohardus vicecomes; Sado marescalcus; Bernardus Uacherius; Gaufridus Acus; Tosetus; Imbertus de Bar.
Mid Apr. – Sept. 23. Baldwin, dei gratia sanctᶒ Iherusalem rex Latinorum quartus, confirms the exchange made by King Fulk and Queen Melisende with the canons of the Holy Sepulchre to establish temporalities for the church of St Lazarus at Bethania. He confirms the canons’ possession of the casale... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:390-3, no. 210 (RRH no. 226)
year: 1160
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Rainaldus Falconarius
text: Mar. 16. During the siege of Blahasent/Belhasam [Qal‘at Abu’l-Hassan]. Baldwin, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Iherusalem Latinorum rex, with the agreement of his wife Theodora Iherosolimorum regina and his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, confirms under seal an agreement with Rainaldus Falconarius. Rainaldus allows the king to create as many canals as he likes to draw off water from the River of Acre, called Belus, to irrigate his sugar cane plantations. In return the king will give Rainaldus one fifth of the profits from the sale of sugar, after expenses have been deducted. The king permits Rainaldus to exact the same dues [talis exactio et talis consuetudo] from all mills inside and outside Acre as he took formerly from his mills on the River Belus. He promises Rainaldus and his wife domina Luciana, that his heirs will have the same rights. Witnesses: Humfredus de Torono constabularius; Galterius dominus Tiberiadensis; Philippus Neapolitanus; Hugo Cesariensis dominus; Gormundus Tiberiadensis; Guido Francigena; Henricus Bubalus; Rohardus Neapolitanus. The charter was drawn up by Stefanus, acting on behalf of dominus Radulfus Bethleemite episcopus regisque cancellarius.
Mar. 16. During the siege of Blahasent/Belhasam [Qal‘at Abu’l-Hassan]. Baldwin, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Iherusalem Latinorum rex, with the agreement of his wife Theodora Iherosolimorum regina and his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, confirms under seal an agreement with Rainaldus... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:462-4, 497, nos. 254, 269; 2:528, no. 300 (RRH no. 344)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
658
year: 1160
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Amalricus comes Ascalonis
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: *Aug. 12 1153 - Nov. 29 1160. King Baldwin III confirms an exchange [made by his brother Count Amalric of Ascalon] with the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in which after the capture of Ascalon the canons were given a mahumeria there, called by the Sarraceni Cathara and by the Latins ‘Green’.
*Aug. 12 1153 - Nov. 29 1160. King Baldwin III confirms an exchange [made by his brother Count Amalric of Ascalon] with the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in which after the capture of Ascalon the canons were given a mahumeria there, called by the Sarraceni Cathara and by the Latins ‘... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:474-5, no. 259
year: 1161
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Balduinus Hulrici vicecomitis Neapolitani filius
text: *Early Summer. King Baldwin III exchanges [for lordships in Samaria] all the land in Transjordan [trans fluvium Iordanem] that Balduinus Hulrici vicecomitis Neapolitani filius had inherited from his father Hulricus, including the castellum Vallis Moysis, together with all villani, Suriani or Sarraceni, on either side of the River Jordan, except for those villani that Balduinus had settled on his land ‘ad ignem et focum hospitatos locatos et manentes in die illa’.
*Early Summer. King Baldwin III exchanges [for lordships in Samaria] all the land in Transjordan [trans fluvium Iordanem] that Balduinus Hulrici vicecomitis Neapolitani filius had inherited from his father Hulricus, including the castellum Vallis Moysis, together with all villani, Suriani or... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:477-8, no. 262
year: 1161
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Philipus Neapolitanus
text: Jul. 31. Nazareth. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Hierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, with the agreement of Theodora, illustris Hierosolimorum regina, his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, Count Raymond III of Tripoli, domna Melisende, Raymond’s sister and the future empress of Constantinople, her mother and King Baldwin’s maternal aunt domna Hodierna Tripolitana comitissa, and all those concerned, gives under seal to Philipus Neapolitanus and his heirs in perpetuity Mons Regalis, Crach castellum and Ahamanh with all their dependencies, land and honor, covering an area stretching from Zerca to the Red Sea [Mare Rubrum] and even beyond, which had been held by Paganus pincerna regius in his lifetime. The king also gives castellum Vallis Moysis with all the land in Transjordan [trans fluvium Iordanem] with all its villanni, Suriani or Sarraceni, on either side of the River Jordan held by Balduinus, the son of Hulricus vicecomes Neapolitanus, which Hulricus had held in his lifetime before Balduinus. The king had obtained this in an exchange with Balduinus, although excluded from the exchange were the villanni settled by Balduinus ‘ad ignem et ad focum hospitatos locatos et manentes’ on the day the agreements were made. The king transfers to Philippus the fief held in-chief across the River Jordan that Iohannes Gomannus held, together with the servicium previously owed to the king. Henceforward Iohannes Gomannus will owe hominium and servicium to Philippus. The gift is made, ‘salve regie maiestati servicio’. Philippus will hold all future conquests of the king. Excluded from the gift are all the king’s Beduini who were not born in the land of Mons Regalis and all caravans [caravani] crossing the territory on journeys between Alexandria or Egypt and Baghdad [Baldach]. In return Philippus, with the agreement of his wife Helisabet, his son Reynerius and his daughters, his brothers Guido Francigena and Henricus Bubalus, gives the king in exchange the entire feudum that came to him from domnus Rohardus and his wife domna Gisla, which Rohardus and Gisla had held for a year and a day, except for a casale called Adelemia and whatever he has in Montanis Bassis. Philippus gives the king the entire feudum of his father Guido de Mile, which Guido de Mile and Philippus held for a year and a day. Philippus gives the king the feudum in montanis Neapolitanis of Guido Francigena, which Guido held from domnus Rohardus and afterwards from Philippus himself, the feudum of Henricus Bubalus his brother and the feudum of Gaufridus Tortus together with Maron and all that Philippus had in lordship [dominium] in the mountains of Tyre and Toron. All these will now be held of the king, in the same terms as they were held of Philippus and will owe the king servicium. Witnesses: Petrus archiepiscopus Tyriensis; Fredericus episcopus Acconensis; Girardus episcopus Laodicensis; Humfredus de Torono constabularius; filius ejus Humfredus; Gualterius de Sancto Audemaro castellanus et Tyberiadis domnus; Gormundus Tyeriadensis, dominus de Bezans; Hugo Cesariensis domnus; Gualterius Berithi dominus; Arnaldus de Crest; Hugo Sine Censu constabularius Tripolis; Guillelmus Porcelet; Viuianus de Caypha; filius ejus Paganus; Guillelmus marescalcus; Odo de Sancto Amando castellanus et vicecomes Hierosolimitanus; Clarembaldus vicecomes Acconensis; Paganus de Uoch; Girardus de Pogi; Gaufridus Tortus; Gocellinus Pessellus; Rohardus Neapolitanus; Bauduinus de Gebal; Iohannes de Valentinis; Gomerius de Neapoli; Hibertus. The charter was drawn up by Radulfus Bethleemite episcopus rcgisque cancellarius.
Jul. 31. Nazareth. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Hierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, with the agreement of Theodora, illustris Hierosolimorum regina, his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, Count Raymond III of Tripoli, domna Melisende, Raymond’s sister and the future empress of... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:479-86, 497 nos. 263, 270; 2:532, no. 306 (RRH no. 366)