RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1340
year: 1192
initiator: King Richard I of England
text: c. mid Oct. On the board the Frankenef. King Richard I of England confirms an agreement about ecclesiastical property in England. Witness: M[agister] Philippus.
c. mid Oct. On the board the Frankenef. King Richard I of England confirms an agreement about ecclesiastical property in England. Witness: M[agister] Philippus.
sources: Sayers, ‘English charters’, p. 200
year: 1192
initiator: Frère Trimond, commandeur de Tripoli [of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem]
recipient: Bolos, the son of Jean Rays
text: *Dec. 1-24. Frère Trimond, commandeur de Tripoli [of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem], sells 5 pièces of land to Bolos, the son of Jean Rays, for 50 Saracen besants and the obligation to provide ploughing from oxen [a rent of journées de beuf].
*Dec. 1-24. Frère Trimond, commandeur de Tripoli [of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem], sells 5 pièces of land to Bolos, the son of Jean Rays, for 50 Saracen besants and the obligation to provide ploughing from oxen [a rent of journées de beuf].
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:590, no. 932 (RRH no. 706a)
year: 1193
initiator: Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
recipient: Church of Valenia and its bishop Anterius
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Jan. 1-31. Gaufredus de Donjon sancte domus Hospitalis Christi pauperum magister Hospitalis with the unanimous assent of all the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, including the chapter, makes a sealed grant, restoring to the church of Valenia [ecclesia Valaniensis] and its bishop Anterius the right to take all those tithes of the lordship of Margattum that it was accustomed to enjoy in the time of the late dominus Rainaldus, with some exceptions. The church will have full tithes from casalia and their produce, carragia and rents; half tithes on the returns of poultry, eggs and cheese; whole tithes on the returns from the funda, platea, dyeworks and other revenues of Margatum. Full tithes will also be paid on the revenues of mills, except for the Order’s milling; half tithes on produce sold from gardens in which the Order has worked with its own labour and and at its own expense, but if any garden be rented out, full tithes will be paid. Half tithes will be paid on oil, but if the olive groves are rented out whole tithes will be due. Half tithes will be paid on carrucae and vineyards worked directly by the Hospital. Whole tithes will be due from the port, as in the days of lord Rainald, on grape juice [must] and wine, sumach, almonds and figs, jars, pots and pitchers. 15 Antiochene besants a year will be paid in place of tithes on the oven, unless it needs to be repaired, when tithes will be reduced while it is out of use. On five feasts - Easter, Pentecost, the Nativity of St John the Baptist, the Assumption of St Mary and All Saints - the Suriani and Armeni outside the town [suburbii], who have donkeys, will bring 10 somae of myrtle [mirtus] to the church of Valenia, which will enjoy freedom in all things as in the days of dominus Reinaldus. Witnesses: Dominus episcopus Anteradensis; Stephanus castellanus Margati; frater Petrus de Mirmanda castellanus Crati; frater Willelmus Lombardus; frater Raimundus Petri prior; frater Willelmus Borrel marescalcus; frater Martinus Gotzaldus preceptor; frater Robertus de Capenni; Bernardus de Sollempniaco; frater Bertran de Pignan; frater Gillebertus; and many brothers; Petrus de Fuare; Petrus de Coquina; and others; of the milites, Bertrandus de Gibelet; Stephanus Daillan; Amalricus frater ejus; Aimfredus; Johannes de Meunendon; Adam; Petrus Salerni; Petros scriba; of the canons, Simon Anteradensis archidiaconus; Valn. Beritensis; Petrus Ascalonensis; Pascalis. The charter was drawn up by Radulfus capellanus.
Jan. 1-31. Gaufredus de Donjon sancte domus Hospitalis Christi pauperum magister Hospitalis with the unanimous assent of all the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, including the chapter, makes a sealed grant, restoring to the church of Valenia [ecclesia Valaniensis] and its bishop... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx Cart Hosp 1:595-6, no. 941 (RRH no. 708)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1343
year: 1193
initiator: Pope Celestine III
recipient: Bishop of Acre
text: Jan. 21 - Mar. 12. [244] In the letter Laudabilem Pope Celestine III answers questions posed by the bishop of Acre [Acon.ep.] [245] in relation to marriage, stressing throughout the need for proper procedures on testimony and proof. He discusses: (1) the legitimacy of a marriage to the daughter of a godfather; (2) couples who separate and the need for judgement in such a case by the church authorities; (3) the legitimacy of the marriage of a girl betrothed before the age of puberty and the importance of consent to consummation at the age of 12; (4) the conflict between a vow of chastity and a later vow of marriage; (5) the prohibition of the marriage of Sarraceni, converted to Christianity, to the women whose husbands they have killed while imprisoned by the Christains; (6) women who seek divorce when they discover that their second husbands, either Sarraceni who have converted to Christianity or Christians, have killed their first husbands in battle; (7) the indissolubility of the first marriage of a Christian who temporarily denies Christ and copulates with a pagan and has children, while the Christian wife left behind has a second marriage, with the consent of the archdeacon [of Acre], and has children; and the legitimacy of the children of both second marriages, one of which had been permitted by the archdeacon, provided the man’s first wife has died: (8) the period of time without consummation [3 years] that would dissolve a marriage; (9) a woman given under age to a nunnery by her parents, who receives the habit, leaves, has sexual relations with a knight and becomes pregnant, and is then forced to return to the religious community. The pope rules that a woman who has a child is not compelled to obey her parents.
Jan. 21 - Mar. 12. [244] In the letter Laudabilem Pope Celestine III answers questions posed by the bishop of Acre [Acon.ep.] [245] in relation to marriage, stressing throughout the need for proper procedures on testimony and proof. He discusses: (1) the legitimacy of a marriage to the daughter of... more
sources: Mansi, Sacr. Concil. 22:638-41
year: 1193
initiator: Henricus de Trecis comes pallatinus et Terre Hierusalem domnus
recipient: Commune of Genoa in Acre
text: †May 5 - Dec. 24 1192 or Mar. 27 1193. Acre. Mindful of the assistance of Genoa in the conquest of the land of Jerusalem and its aid to him and his predecessors, Henricus de Trecis comes pallatinus et Terre Hierusalem domnus and his wife Isabella regis Amalrici filia make a sealed grant, confirming the commune of Genoa in its possessions in Acre and other maritime cities. They specify a church, the right to use weights and measures [cantaria et pondera et mensurae], an oven, a bath house, a stall [bancus] on which the Genoese can sell each other meat, and a rua with houses and properties in Acre and in all the maritime cities of the kingdom, and the right to come and go, sell and buy without payment of dues. In return for the part Genoa played in the relief of Jaffa they give a casale on the plain of Jaffa called Deldoc with all its rustici and a rent [in assisa] of 400 Saracen besants assigned on the fundum of Jaffa, payable in 4 instalments. If this rent fails it will be made up from other rents in or outside Jaffa and Acre. Challengers to these gifts will be excommunicated as is conceded by Patriarch Conradus of Jerusalem and Ioscus archiepiscopus Tirensis. Witnesses [barones]: Radulfus Tiberiade regni senescalcus; Raimondus Sydonensis; Guauterius Cesariensis; G. de Arsuro; Beardus Caiphe; Girardus Hatefort; Guido de Gibelletto; Balduinus de Betha; Helias de Nazareth; Aymardus de Mongisardo; Milo Brebans; Guibertus de Sancto Dinisio; Gualterius de Berito; Rogerius de Waurin; and many others.
†May 5 - Dec. 24 1192 or Mar. 27 1193. Acre. Mindful of the assistance of Genoa in the conquest of the land of Jerusalem and its aid to him and his predecessors, Henricus de Trecis comes pallatinus et Terre Hierusalem domnus and his wife Isabella regis Amalrici filia make a sealed grant, confirming... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:916, 933-6, nos. 540, 569
year: 1193
initiator: Henricus de Trecis comes pallatinus et Terre Hierusalem domnus
recipient: Commune of Genoa in Tyre
text: May 5 - Dec. 24 1192 or Mar. 27 1193. Acre. Mindful of the magnificent contribution the city of Genoa made to the liberation of the eastern regions, the defence of Tyre and the siege of Acre, and with the consent of his wife domna Ysabella regis Amalrici filia, Henricus Trecensium comes palatinus makes a sealed grant to the Genoese commune of Tyre, represented by Nicholaus Cartofigus and Vgo Lercarius Ianuensium consules. He gives the Genoese a free curia in the city of Tyre, freedom to come and go by sea or land, to buy and sell in the funda of Tyre, but on the following condition. If the Genoese come by sea to Tyre in the kingdom of Jerusalem from the land of the Sarraceni, Barbary [Barbaria] or Egypt, or if they come by sea to Tyre from Constantinople by way of the land of the Sarraceni, or come by land from the territory of the Sarraceni, they will pay dues [consuetudines] on the merchandise they sell, but will be exempted from dues on merchandise they do not sell. They are confirmed in their freedom from prosecution for any crime except homicide, theft and rape, and from imprisonment. Henricus confirms for the Genoese their freedom to use their own weights and measures [cantarii, buzae et modii] in Tyre. He confirms their possession of casale Sancti Georgii, Oraca, a large garden belonging to the queen and small gardens situated under the castelletum and within the city wall near the castellum, and a large mill that belonged to the king; the bath house before the house of Fulco de Falesia, in which both men and women bathe, the oven in the burgus novus with a volta adjacent to it, a macellum with 3 houses, a platea that stretches as far as the house of Habraha piscator, and all the houses in 2 insulae which are in front of the macellum, extending on one side as far as the house of Theobaldus aurifex and on the other to the house of magister Petrus Ianuensis, as contained in the charter from Count Raymond [III] of Tripoli; a third part of the proceeds of the cathena of Tyre, after expenses have been deducted; and the house of Opicio Lumbardus situated over the port of Tyre, which is bounded by the house of Obertus de Sandala, the house of Gandulfus Saonensis, the public way and a private road [via privata], together with all the houses and tenement held by Opicius behind his house and beyond the private road. Witnesses: Balianus de Ybelino; Reginaldus Sydoniensis; Hugo Tiberi[adensis]; Guillelmus frater eius; Galterus Durus: Milo Brebanz; Antelmus de Luca: Bernardus de Templo. The charter was drawn up by domnus Ioscius Tyrensis archiepiscopus regni cancellarius. Authenticated [notarized] by Radulfus.
May 5 - Dec. 24 1192 or Mar. 27 1193. Acre. Mindful of the magnificent contribution the city of Genoa made to the liberation of the eastern regions, the defence of Tyre and the siege of Acre, and with the consent of his wife domna Ysabella regis Amalrici filia, Henricus Trecensium comes palatinus... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:916, 936-40, nos. 541, 570 (RRH no. 707)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1346
year: 1193
initiator: Pope Celestine III
recipient: Citizens of Pisa
text: Apr. 8. Lateran. Pope Celestine III confirms for the citizens of Pisa all the privileges granted to them or confirmed by King Guy and Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem, King Richard I of England and C[onradus] marchio Montisferrati.
Apr. 8. Lateran. Pope Celestine III confirms for the citizens of Pisa all the privileges granted to them or confirmed by King Guy and Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem, King Richard I of England and C[onradus] marchio Montisferrati.
sources: Hiestand, PK p. 398, no. 203 (RRH no. 711)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1347
year: 1193
initiator: Pope Celestine III
recipient: Church of Genoa
institution: Saint Laurence in Acre
text: Apr. 23. Lateran. In a general confirmation for the church of Genoa, Pope Celestine III refers to the Genoese possession of the church of St Laurence in Acre and the gifts of Gibelletum and other places made by Bertrandus comes sancti Egidii.
Apr. 23. Lateran. In a general confirmation for the church of Genoa, Pope Celestine III refers to the Genoese possession of the church of St Laurence in Acre and the gifts of Gibelletum and other places made by Bertrandus comes sancti Egidii.
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 345-6, no. 167
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1348
year: 1193
initiator: Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
recipient: Frater W. de Vileruns prepositus ultramarinus
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Apr. 30. Frater Gaufridus sancta domus Hospitalis Hierusalem humilis magister and his chapter send frater W. de Vileruns prepositus ultramarinus news of the deaths of Mestoc [on 1 October], the vetus dominus Assyriorum, the sultan of Konya, and Saladin [on the Wednesday of the first week of March], among whose sons in Aleppo, Damascus and Cairo [Babylonia] there is discord. Now may be the time to recover the Holy Land.Truces still prevail, but the Latin East is short of inhabitants.
Apr. 30. Frater Gaufridus sancta domus Hospitalis Hierusalem humilis magister and his chapter send frater W. de Vileruns prepositus ultramarinus news of the deaths of Mestoc [on 1 October], the vetus dominus Assyriorum, the sultan of Konya, and Saladin [on the Wednesday of the first week of March... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:597-8, no. 945 (RRH no. 712)
year: 1193
initiator: Henricus de Trecis comes pallatinus et Terre Hierusalem domnus
recipient: Pisans
text: May 1-5. Acre. With the agreement of domna Ysabella regis Amalrici filia, Henricus comes Trecensium records an agreement made with the Pisans. He concedes to them freedom to enter and leave through the catena of Acre without the payment of any dues [exactio], and all the liberties and possessions they held in Tyre, Acre and Jaffa during the reign of King Amalric, together with the platea that King Baldwin [IV] gave them. If there are other rights described in charters, Henricus will give them their due in his curia when the city of Jerusalem is restored to the Christians. No more than 30 Pisans should be resident in Tyre during the year from 1 May without his permission. The consuls of the Pisans will swear loyalty on behalf of all Pisans coming to the land. If a Pisan holds a burgesia of Henricus, he should surrender it and only hold property as other Pisans do. If a Pisan wishes to hold a burgesia, he should be subject to the same terms as other burgenses [of the kingdom]. Witnesses: Balianus de Ibelino; Raginaldus Sydoniensis; Arnulfus marescalcus; Milo Brebant; Galterius Durus; Bernardus de Templo; Antelmus de Luca.
May 1-5. Acre. With the agreement of domna Ysabella regis Amalrici filia, Henricus comes Trecensium records an agreement made with the Pisans. He concedes to them freedom to enter and leave through the catena of Acre without the payment of any dues [exactio], and all the liberties and possessions... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:915, 929-32, nos. 539, 568 (RRH no. 713)