RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
124
year: 1112
initiator: Hugo, abbot of Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
institution: Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
text: *Winter 1109/1110 - Apr. 6 1112. Hugo, abbot of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, establishes a hospital next to the abbey for the poor and pilgrims, dedicated to St Saviour, funded by a tithe on all St Mary’s goods and supported by a confraternity, the members of which share in the abbey’s prayers and merits. It will feed 13 poor persons on every Feastday of the Apostles and whenever a confrater dies. Another poor person will be fed each day for thirteen days after such a death and on the anniversary each year. Each confrater will provide an eleemosynary subscription of 13 besants a year. The members include domnus Balduinus rex primus; Bernardus episcopus de Nazareth; Guillelmus de Buris; Guido de Miliaco; Goscelinus domnus de Tiberiade; domnus Balianus; and many others.
*Winter 1109/1110 - Apr. 6 1112. Hugo, abbot of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, establishes a hospital next to the abbey for the poor and pilgrims, dedicated to St Saviour, funded by a tithe on all St Mary’s goods and supported by a confraternity, the members of which share in the abbey’s... more
sources: Delaborde, Chartes, pp. 47-9, no. 19; Mayer, UKJ 1:175-6, no. 50
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
170
year: 1118
initiator: Baldwin I
text: *c. Nov. 11 1100 – Apr. 2 1118. King Baldwin I establishes cours des Syriens throughout his kingdom.
*c. Nov. 11 1100 – Apr. 2 1118. King Baldwin I establishes cours des Syriens throughout his kingdom.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:202-3, no. 68 [28]
RRR: Establishment/foundation document
175
year: 1118
initiator: Baldwin I
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: †c. Nov. 11 1100 – Apr. 2 1118 [1103?, 1110?]. King Baldwin I establishes the military order of the Holy Sepulchre, originally founded by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.
†c. Nov. 11 1100 – Apr. 2 1118 [1103?, 1110?]. King Baldwin I establishes the military order of the Holy Sepulchre, originally founded by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1473-5, no. App. II/12) (RRH no. 41)
RRR: Establishment/foundation document
255
year: 1127
initiator: Pope Honorius II
recipient: Augustinian Monastery in Nazareth
text: *1126 - 1127. Pope Honorius II establishes an Augustinian monasterium at Nazareth and transfers the archbishopric of Sitopolis, que nunc Bethsan vulgariter appellatur, there.
*1126 - 1127. Pope Honorius II establishes an Augustinian monasterium at Nazareth and transfers the archbishopric of Sitopolis, que nunc Bethsan vulgariter appellatur, there.
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 131-2, no. 25
year: 1131
initiator: Baldwin II
recipient: Leprosary of Saint Lazarus in Jerusalem
institution: Leprosary of Saint Lazarus
text: *Apr. 14 1118– Aug. 21 1131. King Baldwin II issues a charter in favour of the leprosary of St Lazarus at Jerusalem.
*Apr. 14 1118– Aug. 21 1131. King Baldwin II issues a charter in favour of the leprosary of St Lazarus at Jerusalem.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:282-4, no. 120
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
485
year: 1148
initiator: King Conrad III of Germany
recipient: Monastery of Saint Martin
institution: Saint Martin
text: *Apr. 12 – Sept. 8. King Conrad III of Germany confirms the establishment of the monastery of St Martin on Syrian territory near the abbey of Mt Tabor by the River Cissum and adds privileges for the abbey.
*Apr. 12 – Sept. 8. King Conrad III of Germany confirms the establishment of the monastery of St Martin on Syrian territory near the abbey of Mt Tabor by the River Cissum and adds privileges for the abbey.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1483-4, no. App. III/1
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
532
year: 1152
initiator: Guillelmus Tortosanus episcopus
recipient: Ebrardus magister templi
institution: Templars
text: Feb. - Sept. 23. Tripoli. In the presence of Raymond II, comes Tripolitanus Poncii comitis filius, Guillelmus Tortosanus episcopus, having spoken to his chapter and to Count Raymond, together with the barones and burgenses of his curia and others, has asked Ebrardus magister templi and his brothers to build and occupy a new castle in Tortosa, which was taken by the Turks [Turci] and burnt, and remains deserted and destroyed with its holy places profaned, in order to assure more security and to ensure that the cathedral church of Mary, the holy mother of God and perpetual virgin, can be renewed. On the Templars’ agreement, episcopus Guillelmus and his chapter give them a part of the town in the bishop’s possession where burgenses used to live. They will build a castle there, from the entrance to the Gate as far as the house of Guillelmus de Tiberiade and as far as the Gate of St Helena. All the churches in the city with the parish rights, whether within or without in the port, are to be subject to the church of Tortosa and its bishop, except for the Templars’ own chapel in the castle of Tortosa. The churches the Templars have or will acquire in their castles and elsewhere in the diocese will be held by them freely with all parochial rights, except for those at Marraclea, Camelum, Exerc, Colea, Castrum Novum, Cratum and Lacum. Tithes of the Templar churches will be shared between the bishop and canons of Tortosa and the Templars, except for tithes of demesne [proprius laboris fratrum templi], of spoil gained in military expeditions and of those levied on animals and gardens, all of which the brothers will keep, and except for the tithes of Cratum, which have been wholly given by the bishop to magister Raimundus and the brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. All returns from villani and milites will be tithed and shared, except for all those of Castrum Album, which will go to Templars and all those of Marraclea, which will go to the see of Tortosa. Both sides swear to maintain this agreement, saving the rights of the pope and the patriarchs of Antioch and Jerusalem. Witnesses: Guillelmus Tripolitanus episcopus; Florentius preceptor Tripolis; Raymundus Tripolis comes Poncii comitis filius; Arnaldus de Crest constabularius Tripolis; Guillelmus Embriacus; Guillelmus Porcelletus; Guillelmus de Lunell marescalcus; Ugo Sine Censu; Silvius Robberti; Arbertus de Cabreria; Guillelmus Rainoardi; Rainoardus; Bertrannus de Muntpetros; Guillelmus vicecomes Tripolis; Fasianus; Ugo de Liziniaco; Joselinus de Chaumunt; Pipinus de Vinoch; Gaufridus de Sydone; Guillelmus de Corniol; Poncius de Siura; Petrus de Muntferrer; Guillelmus Rotlandi; Raymundus Lamberti; Raymundus Arnaudi; Petrus Paschalis: Raymundus Cathalanus; Petrus de Sancto Germano; Petrus Galic; Bonetus; Maurus; Petrus de Castro Novo; Raymundus Fortis; of the canons of Tortosa, Guillelmus Ugonis, Poncius Cathalanus sacristes; Heliyas.
Feb. - Sept. 23. Tripoli. In the presence of Raymond II, comes Tripolitanus Poncii comitis filius, Guillelmus Tortosanus episcopus, having spoken to his chapter and to Count Raymond, together with the barones and burgenses of his curia and others, has asked Ebrardus magister templi and his brothers... more
sources: Riley-Smith, ‘The Templars and the castle of Tortosa’, pp. 284-7
RRR: Establishment/foundation document
1128
year: 1183
initiator: Baldwin IV
recipient: Order of Saint Lazarus
institution: Leprosary of Saint Lazarus
text: *†May 12. King Baldwin [IV] travels to Europe, where he establishes and endows a house of the Order of St Lazarus in Seedorf (Switzerland).
*†May 12. King Baldwin [IV] travels to Europe, where he establishes and endows a house of the Order of St Lazarus in Seedorf (Switzerland).
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1475-6, no. App. II/13
year: 1190
initiator: Guy of Lusignan and Queen Sibylla
recipient: Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans
institution: Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans
text: (†) [229] Mid Sept. [Dec. 25 1189/Jan 1 1190 - Oct. 20 1190]. In the siege camp before Acre. Guy, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Ierusalem Latinorum rex VIIIus, his wife the Lady Queen Sibylla make a sealed eleemosynary grant to the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, represented by magister Sibrandus, who founded this hospital during the siege of Acre. They give a house in Acre which had been a hospice for Armenians and patrones, [230] out of which can be established a hospital. If the gift of the house proves to be impossible, Guy and Sibylla will give the platea next door, where a hospital can be built. They also give 4 carrucate terre in the territory of Acre. Witnesses: Comes Ioscelinus regis senescalcus; Anzellinus regis constabularius; Henfridus Montis Regalis; Hugo Tyberiadis; Rainaldus Sydonis; Gaufridus Tortus. The charter was drawn up by Petrus regius cancellarius et Tripolitane ecclesie archidiaconus.
(†) [229] Mid Sept. [Dec. 25 1189/Jan 1 1190 - Oct. 20 1190]. In the siege camp before Acre. Guy, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Ierusalem Latinorum rex VIIIus, his wife the Lady Queen Sibylla make a sealed eleemosynary grant to the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, represented by magister... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:822-4, 856, 982, nos. 482, 518, 605 (RRH no. 696)
RRR: Establishment/foundation document
1591
year: 1207
initiator: Amatus abbas of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
recipient: Joannes clericus et diaconus
institution: Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
text: May 1-31. Amatus abbas of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, together with his convent, records how they sent frater Arnaldus, the prior, and frater Joannes to Antioch on their abbey’s business and to establish what the abbey had owned for a long time. The brothers, wishing to preserve the abbey’s properties in future, found a cleric of Patriarch Peter of Antioch called Joannes diaconus, the son of dominus Helias de Cursalt, who became a confrater. In the presence of the patriarch, Arnaldus and Joannes assigned to Joannes clericus et diaconus one of the abbey’s guastinae, situated next to the house of the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, in which there was a ruined oratory dedicated to the Mother of God. Joannes diaconus promised to repair it so that the brothers of St Mary could worship there. He was bound to build a house and to plant fruit bearing trees and a viridarium in the guastina and also to recover goods of St Mary which had been alienated. The abbot seals a confirmation of the new position of Joannes. Witnesses: Arnaldus prior; frater Adam; frater Petrus; frater Joannes; frater Julianus.
May 1-31. Amatus abbas of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, together with his convent, records how they sent frater Arnaldus, the prior, and frater Joannes to Antioch on their abbey’s business and to establish what the abbey had owned for a long time. The brothers, wishing to preserve the abbey... more
sources: Kohler, ‘Chartes’, pp. 172-3, no. 64 (RRH No. 820a)