RRR: Correspondence/envoy
890
year: 1173
initiator: King Amalric
recipient: Archbishop Henry of Reims
text: Summer. Amalric, per Dei gratiam Jerosolymorum rex, writes to Archbishop H. of Reims. He urges the restoration of peace between the king of England and his sons, particularly as the king of England has notified him, by letter and emissaries, of his desire to assist the Holy Land unless prevented by this disturbance. Amalric is sending the bishop of Lydda and the subprior of the Holy Sepulchre to expand orally on what he has written.
Summer. Amalric, per Dei gratiam Jerosolymorum rex, writes to Archbishop H. of Reims. He urges the restoration of peace between the king of England and his sons, particularly as the king of England has notified him, by letter and emissaries, of his desire to assist the Holy Land unless prevented by... more
sources: Bouquet, Recueil 16:198, no. 197 (RRH no. 497)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
891
year: 1173
initiator: Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem
recipient: Archbishop Henry of Reims
text: Summer. Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem writes to Archbishop H. of Reims, describing the afflictions suffered by the eastern church and begging for help. Saladin invades the land every year. Nur ad-Din is seeking peace with the sultan of Iconium, the neighbour of Antioch, and is massing all the infidels from the region of Persia to Syria, with the intention of invading Antioch. The patriarch recommends the emissaries B. Liddensis episcopus and R. sancti Sepulcri subprior and he encourages efforts to reconcile the king of England and his sons.
Summer. Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem writes to Archbishop H. of Reims, describing the afflictions suffered by the eastern church and begging for help. Saladin invades the land every year. Nur ad-Din is seeking peace with the sultan of Iconium, the neighbour of Antioch, and is massing all the... more
sources: Bouquet, Recueil 16:198-9, no. 198 (RRH no. 498)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
892
year: 1173
initiator: Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior
recipient: Archbishop Henry of Reims
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Summer. P. Dominici Sepulcri prior writes to Archbishop H. of Reims, asking for help and pointing out that although the Holy Sepulchre has established houses or dwellings [mansiones] in nearly all Christian kingdoms there is none in the kingdom of the archbishop’s brother [France]. He commends A. subprior noster and asks for the establishment of a Holy Sepulchre presence in the diocese of Reims.
Summer. P. Dominici Sepulcri prior writes to Archbishop H. of Reims, asking for help and pointing out that although the Holy Sepulchre has established houses or dwellings [mansiones] in nearly all Christian kingdoms there is none in the kingdom of the archbishop’s brother [France]. He commends A.... more
sources: Bouquet, Recueil 16:200, no. 200 (RRH no. 499)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
893
year: 1173
initiator: Josbertus, master of the Hospital
recipient: Archbishop Henry of Reims
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Autumn. Josbertus Christi pauperum servus et sancti Hospitalis Jerusalem magister writes to Archbishop H.of Reims, asking him to patronize the Hospitallers and to help the Hospital establish some receptaculum, refugium atque solamen in his diocese.
Autumn. Josbertus Christi pauperum servus et sancti Hospitalis Jerusalem magister writes to Archbishop H.of Reims, asking him to patronize the Hospitallers and to help the Hospital establish some receptaculum, refugium atque solamen in his diocese.
sources: Bouquet 16:199-200, no. 199; also in Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:303-4, no. 438 (RRH no. 505)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
894
year: 1173
initiator: Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem together with N. prior and all the canons of the Holy Sepulchre
recipient: King Louis VII of France
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Autumn. Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem, together with N. prior and all the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, writes to King Louis VII of France, commending S. canonicus noster and asking the king to grant him a hospitale or other place, as a house [refugium] for the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.
Autumn. Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem, together with N. prior and all the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, writes to King Louis VII of France, commending S. canonicus noster and asking the king to grant him a hospitale or other place, as a house [refugium] for the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.
sources: Bouquet, Rceueil 16:167-8, no. 491 (RRH no. 506)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
895
year: 1173
initiator: Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem
recipient: King Louis VII of France
institution: Leprosary of Saint Lazarus
text: Autumn. Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem writes to King Louis VII of France, drawing attention to the leprosary of St Lazarus outside the walls of Jerusalem, which Louis himself has seen, and the pressures on the church in the East. He commends a brother sent by St Lazarus to France.
Autumn. Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem writes to King Louis VII of France, drawing attention to the leprosary of St Lazarus outside the walls of Jerusalem, which Louis himself has seen, and the pressures on the church in the East. He commends a brother sent by St Lazarus to France.
sources: Bouquet, Recueil 16:168, no. 492 (RRH no. 507)
year: 1173
initiator: Josbertus, master of the Hospital
recipient: Arionus Jacobinus
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Oct. 1-31. Josbertus [Hospitalis Jerusalem] humilis minister, with the consent of all his chapter, gives under seal, by the hand of frater Bernardus magister [asinarie], a house and the empty land next to it in the curtilium called Belveer in Jerusalem to [Ar]ionus Jacobinus for the annual rent of 4….., payable on the Feast of St John the Baptist. If Arion [or his heirs] wish to build on it and sell it, the Hospital will have pre-emption rights, receiving 1 besant less than the asking price. If the Hospital agrees to a sale, the property can be sold to anyone except churches or milites. Arion leaves a third part of his property to the Hospital on his death. Witnesses: frater Guar[inus de] Melna preceptor; frater Stephanus thesaurarius; frater Willelmus de Forgia custos egrorum; frater Petrus custos operis; of lay men, Guncelinus Castelli; Rotbertus nepos Radulfi drogomani; Petrus Tornator.
Oct. 1-31. Josbertus [Hospitalis Jerusalem] humilis minister, with the consent of all his chapter, gives under seal, by the hand of frater Bernardus magister [asinarie], a house and the empty land next to it in the curtilium called Belveer in Jerusalem to [Ar]ionus Jacobinus for the annual rent of... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:311-12, no. 450 (RRH no. 501)
year: 1173
initiator: King Amalric
recipient: Abbey of Mount Sion
institution: Mount Sion
text: *Feb. 18 1163 - Dec. 24 1173. King Amalric gives the abbey of Mt Sion a vineyard near the church of St Procopius.
*Feb. 18 1163 - Dec. 24 1173. King Amalric gives the abbey of Mt Sion a vineyard near the church of St Procopius.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:619-21, no. 355
RRR: Eleemosynary grant
898
year: 1173
initiator: Hodeardius, widow of Oto de Verduno
recipient: Josbertus, master of the Hospital
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Dec. 25 1172 - Dec. 24 1173. Jerusalem. In the [burgess] curia of King Amalric, Hodeardis, widow of Oto de Verduno, with the agreement of her sons Henricus and Guido and her daughters Isabella, the wife of Iohannes Aschetinus, and Benedicta, the wife of Ioffridus filius Simonis iudicis, and also Iasza, the wife of Henricus Balistarius, makes a sale, masked as an eleemosynary grant, of a curtile to magister Iosbertus, the poor and the brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. The curtile is situated between the public way that leads to Bethlehem and the way that leads to Acheldamach, the lacus Germani and a garden of the Hospital. In return the Hospital gives Hodeardis 760 besants out of charity and receives the whole family into confraternity. Henricus, Guido, Isabella with her husband Iohannes, Benedicta with her husband Ioffridus, and Iasza with her husband Henricus Balistarius guarantee the transfer. King Amalric’s confirmation is itself an eleemosynary grant. Witnesses: Hernulfus de Blanca Guarda vicecomes, who authorized sales by royal prerogative [jure regio]; magister Gonscelinus; Symon iuratus; Ioffridus….; GilIebertus de Pinkeni; Lambertus Patriarcha; W. de Ponz; Iohannes Briccii; Bartholoms juratus…., ; [Gaufrid]us Tortus; Petrus de Sancto Lazaro; Petrus de Sancto Iacobo; Iacobus gener Gilleberti de Pinkeni, Riccardus; ….tinus.
Dec. 25 1172 - Dec. 24 1173. Jerusalem. In the [burgess] curia of King Amalric, Hodeardis, widow of Oto de Verduno, with the agreement of her sons Henricus and Guido and her daughters Isabella, the wife of Iohannes Aschetinus, and Benedicta, the wife of Ioffridus filius Simonis iudicis, and also... more
sources: Mayer, Von der Cour des Bourgeois, pp. 225-9, no. 3 (RRH no. 504)
year: 1173
initiator: Josbertus, master of the Hospital
recipient: Meletus Surianus, Surianorum et Graecorum Gazam et Jabin habitantium finesque eorum archiepiscopus
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
additional institution: Saint George in Bersabea
text: Dec. 25 1172 - Dec. 24 1173. Jerusalem. Josbertus magister Hospitalis Iherusalem, with the agreement of all his chapter, cedes to Meletus Surianus, Surianorum et Graecorum Gazam et Jabin habitantium finesque eorum archiepiscopus, the monastery [monasterium] of S. Georgius at Bersabee, which the Latins call Gybelin, for his lifetime, on condition that after his death the monastery will revert to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, with all the improvements that have been made. This will be treated as an eleemosynary gift to the poor of the Hospital, made on behalf of the [Byzantine] emperor Manuel. Meletus is received into the confraternity of the Hospital. Witnesses: frater G[arinus] de Melna preceptor domus Hospitalis; frater Stephanus thesaurarius; frater Garnerius Gybelini castellanus; frater Guillelmus Dacer; frater Oldinus Bellivideri castellanus; frater Bonitus, who wrote the charter on the orders of Josbertus; Μέλετος, αρχιεπισκοπος πόλεως Γάζης και ̉Έλευθεροπόλεως; Θεόκτιστος, πρωτοπαπα και δουλος του ΄αγίου τάφου του κυρίου ʹΙησοΰ Χριστου; Ιωάννης, ΄ιερευς και δευτεράριος της ΄αγίας Χριστου αναστάσεως; Γεόργηος, προτοδηάκονος; Στέφανος, είερευς της ΄αγίας αναστάσεως; Αβράμιος, διάκονος της ΄αγίας Χριστου αναστάσεως. [134]
Dec. 25 1172 - Dec. 24 1173. Jerusalem. Josbertus magister Hospitalis Iherusalem, with the agreement of all his chapter, cedes to Meletus Surianus, Surianorum et Graecorum Gazam et Jabin habitantium finesque eorum archiepiscopus, the monastery [monasterium] of S. Georgius at Bersabee, which the... more
sources: Delaville le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:306-8, no. 443 (RRH no. 502)