year: 1136
initiator: Petrus Bernardi, canon of the Holy Sepulchre
recipient: Andreas and his wife Hosanna
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Nov. 16. Petrus Bernardi, a canon of the Holy Sepulchre, with the consent of Petrus prior and his fellow canons, permits Andreas and his wife Hosanna to build a house on land belonging to the Holy Sepulchre in that part of the city of Jerusalem which is under royal jurisdiction. The land adjoins a house belonging to the Holy Sepulchre, a house of the Hospital of St John which used to be owned by Garsia, and a house which belonged to Robertus Galatinae. Andreas and Hosanna must pay a rent [redditus] of 2 besants a year to the Holy Sepulchre. If either Andreas or Hosanna should die, the surviving spouse can continue to live in the house while paying the same rent. After the death of both the house will pass to the Holy Sepulchre. The canons also allow Andreas and Hosanna to draw water for their needs from the canons’ cistern which is at the foot of the steps [ad pedes gradus]. Witnesses: Holdredus judex; Albertus de Virduno; Ricardus; Rogerius, magister clientium Sancti Sepulchri; Arnuldus sellarius; Petrus Porcellus; Habert de Falcomberga; Bernardus Riquitie. The charter was written by Johannes Pisanus, who was teaching the young clerics [clericuli] at the Holy Sepulchre.
Nov. 16. Petrus Bernardi, a canon of the Holy Sepulchre, with the consent of Petrus prior and his fellow canons, permits Andreas and his wife Hosanna to build a house on land belonging to the Holy Sepulchre in that part of the city of Jerusalem which is under royal jurisdiction. The land adjoins a... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 222-3, no. 103 (RRH no. 166)
year: 1137
initiator: Patriarch William of Jerusalem
recipient: Galterius de Lucia
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Jul. 12. Patriarch William of Jerusalem, with the agreement of the community [conventus] at the Holy Sepulchre, licences under seal Galterus de Lucia to sell his house to Robertus Medicus and his sons and daughters for 80 besants. Galterus de Lucia built this house on land at the western corner of the lacus Balneorum, extending [vergens] to the north. Because the house’s foundations are so unstable that it cannot be heightened, Patriarch William, with the agreement of the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre, permits Robertus Medicus to construct a vault over the road that runs between the house and the patriarch’s square [campus] and to build on it. He also pledges [in vadimonium] to Robertus some wasteland at the corner of the house so that the house can be extended. Robertus will pay the patriarchal curia 1 besant a year on 15 July [in festivitate Ierusalem] for the house and the additional land. Witnesses: from the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre, Petrus prior; Robertus archidiaconus; Petrus Barcinonensis; Osbertus Ioppensis; Radulphus Parisiensis; Willelmus Normannus; Lambertus de Sancto Lazaro; Garnerius; Godefridus; Robertus de Accon; Moyses; Bartholomeus; Giraldus; Dionisiovs; Brocardus; Willelmus and others; from the patriarchal curia, Everhardus; Humbertus; Amelius; Iohannes; Milo; Ernaldus; Stephanus and others. [49]
Jul. 12. Patriarch William of Jerusalem, with the agreement of the community [conventus] at the Holy Sepulchre, licences under seal Galterus de Lucia to sell his house to Robertus Medicus and his sons and daughters for 80 besants. Galterus de Lucia built this house on land at the western corner of... more
sources: Mayer, Von der Cour des Bourgeois, pp. 234-8, no. 6 (RRH no. 170)
RRR: Permission/licence/authorization
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year: 1138
initiator: Johannes, bishop of Acre
recipient: Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Before Sept. 24. At the request of Petrus ęcclesię Dominicę Resurrectionis prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Johannes Achon episcopus gives them permission, which he seals, to build a church in honour of the Holy Sepulchre on land in the city of Acre given them by Lambertus Hals. He adds the gift of another church in a casale called Amimas, 3 miliarii distant from Acre, although he retains episcopal rights over it. Witnesses: Adam Acconensis archidiaconus; Marinus presbiter; Nicholaus presbiter; Johannes Pictaviensis presbiter; Robertus presbiter; Gozelinus canonicus; Jonathas canonic; Dodo presbiter; Iterius presbiter; Petrus diaconus; Stephanus; Leo; Johannes de Brundusio/Brudusio; Willelmus Capperuns /Capperons; Balduinus Jhierosolymitani patriarchᶒ cancellarius and many others.
Before Sept. 24. At the request of Petrus ęcclesię Dominicę Resurrectionis prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Johannes Achon episcopus gives them permission, which he seals, to build a church in honour of the Holy Sepulchre on land in the city of Acre given them by Lambertus Hals. He adds... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 152-3, no. 60. See Mayer, UKJ 1:324 (RRH no. 180)
year: 1166
initiator: Hugo, Cesaree Palestine dominus
recipient: Petrus prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Sept. 1 - Dec. 24. Hugo Cesaree Palestine dominus, with the agreement of his wife Ysabel and the advice of his probi homines, makes a sealed grant to Petrus prior and the Latin canons of the Holy Sepulchre. He gives them the mountain next to the garden of Feissa, where rise the waters that feed the aqueduct. The land stretches from the road that comes from Braicaet towards the Casale Sancti Sepulcri, eastwards, by way of the cavea which is between two hills and the river bed [torrens] that flows in winter, to a small hill situated between the said mountain and the mountain of Broiquet; and from the bed of the river bed towards the aforesaid small hill along the side [per crepidinem] of the small hill, as designated by crosses, towards a hillock [monticulum], called the lime kiln [calcis fornax], and then to the south to another hillock, which is not far away, which was the old lime kiln [calcis fornax], extending along the side of the hill in a straight line to a wall [spina] on the plain, which divides the casale of Faisse, belonging to the Holy Sepulchre, from the casale of Sabarim, belonging to the Hospital. The boundaries were drawn by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre with Georgius and his son Balduinus. Hugo retains the right to repair the old aqueduct and the spring that feeds it, in order to convey water to his sugar cane plantation at Casale Bubalorum. In return for this he will provide the canons with half a quintala [of sugar] each year from a sugar cane press [macera], and if there is a surfeit [amplius] he will provide a whole quintala. He can construct another aqueduct and dig another spring to lead water to the aforesaid casale. Hugo also confirms the gift made by his grandfather Eustachius Granerii and his father Galterius, with the boundaries that were established. He adds the privilege that the canons can sell or buy, weigh and measure and transport by land or sea without any payment of usaticum or exactio throughout his land, within and outside the city of Caesarea. The canons give Hugo 400 besants in return for the gift and confirmation. Witnesses: Rainerius episcopus Sebasten[sis]; Radulfus prepositus; Johannes cantor Cesariensis; Symon canonicus; Arnulfus subprior; Petrus Lombardus; frater Adam; frater Vitalis; Petrus de Mahumeria; Petrus Costa vicecomes; Engilbertus de Aria; Carolus; Hamelinus; Rodbertus de Cossia; Georgius; Balduinus filius ejus.
Sept. 1 - Dec. 24. Hugo Cesaree Palestine dominus, with the agreement of his wife Ysabel and the advice of his probi homines, makes a sealed grant to Petrus prior and the Latin canons of the Holy Sepulchre. He gives them the mountain next to the garden of Feissa, where rise the waters that feed the... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 271-2, no. 139 (RRH no. 425)