year: 1100
initiator: Godfrey of Bouillon
recipient: Pisans
text: *†Sept. 1 1099 – c. Jun. 10 1100. Godfrey of Bouillon gives the Pisans a quarter [with church, piazza and palazzo] in every principal town in the kingdom of Jerusalem, with their own jurisdiction, freedoms from dues and the right to their goods if shipwrecked. The Pisan consuls are to have a stipend of 300 gold besants a year from the camera regia.
*†Sept. 1 1099 – c. Jun. 10 1100. Godfrey of Bouillon gives the Pisans a quarter [with church, piazza and palazzo] in every principal town in the kingdom of Jerusalem, with their own jurisdiction, freedoms from dues and the right to their goods if shipwrecked. The Pisan consuls are to have a... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1465-6, no. App. II/5
year: 1104
initiator: Baldwin I
recipient: Pisans
text: *†Apr. 28 – May 6. King Baldwin I grants the Pisans a third part of the cities of Acre and Tyre with jurisdictional immunity and confirms the [forged] privilege of Godfrey of Bouillon.
*†Apr. 28 – May 6. King Baldwin I grants the Pisans a third part of the cities of Acre and Tyre with jurisdictional immunity and confirms the [forged] privilege of Godfrey of Bouillon.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1469-70, no. App. II/8
year: 1108
initiator: Tancred, prince of Antioch
recipient: Pisans
text: Mar 25? - Aug. Tancred, Dei gratia Antiochenus princeps/dux et princeps Antiochenus qui tunc orientali, Deo favente, dominabitur regioni, comes to an agreement with the Pisans. They will help him take Latakia from the Greeks, who have unjustly seized that city by force. If God grants him Latakia he promises the Pisans free occupation of a vicus called the Voltae Prodromi, which runs in one direction as far as [the church of] St Nicholas and in the other to the seashore and Iron Well [puteus ferreus]. He allows their ships [naves et galeae] to visit the port of Latakia. The Pisans can enter and leave whenever they wish without paying any dues or customs. He also gives the Pisans the vicus Sancti Salvatoris in the city of Antioch and general freedom throughout all his land and ports. The agreement is confirmed by: B. Antiochiae patriarcha; R. archiepiscopus Tarsensis; R. archiepiscopus Mamistensis; T., sancti Pauli abbas; and by the following barones: R. Fulconis filius; Engellerius; R. Sancti Laudi.
Mar 25? - Aug. Tancred, Dei gratia Antiochenus princeps/dux et princeps Antiochenus qui tunc orientali, Deo favente, dominabitur regioni, comes to an agreement with the Pisans. They will help him take Latakia from the Greeks, who have unjustly seized that city by force. If God grants him Latakia he... more
sources: Müller, Documenti toscane, p. 3, no. 1 A and B [17] (RRH no. 53)
year: 1156
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Pisans
text: Nov. 2. Acre. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Hierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, with the advice and agreement of his mother Queen Melisende, seals a peace treaty with the Pisans, who renounce all the claims on confiscated goods that they have brought against him and his homines, except for those relating to their honores that they are pursuing against the patriarch of Jerusalem, the clergy [clericatus] of Caesarea and the abbot and monks of St Mary of the Latins. The king, on his behalf and on that of his homines, renounces all claims and confiscations made against the Pisans. The Pisans promise to keep security and faith [salvum et fidum] with the king. They will protect him and his subjects homines by sea and land and will do their best to prevent other persons harming them. The king makes the same promise of security, protection and faith to the Pisans. King Baldwin excludes from this agreement the sale in Egypt of iron, wood, pitch, [pix] or arms, which can be confiscated without breaching the treaty. The king gives the Pisans a viscounty in Tyre, the holder of which can judge the Pisans in their own court [curia], reserving only to royal justice cases involving death sentences [traditio mortis]. He gives the Pisans 5 carrucate of good land next to Tyre and an oven in Tyre. He confirms King Baldwin II’s grant to the Pisans of 5 houses in the ruga next to the port of Tyre free of rent [tributum vel redditum] and freedom from taxes on their shipping [naves] and goods in the port, although pilgrims and other men (who are not Pisan merchants) would not be exempt. The goods of Pisans who died would not be subject to any restrictions or taxation. Baldwin wishes his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus to make peace with the Pisans. Witnesses: Bertrannus de Blancaforti, militię Templi magister; Gaufridus Fulcherii frater Templi; frater Giraldus Hugonis preceptor Hospitalis; frater Guilielmus de Grosseto; Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus; Robertus de Porta; Rainaldus Falconarius. The charter was drawn up by Radulfus Bethlehemitę episcopus regisque cancellarius.
Nov. 2. Acre. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Hierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, with the advice and agreement of his mother Queen Melisende, seals a peace treaty with the Pisans, who renounce all the claims on confiscated goods that they have brought against him and his homines, except for those... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:374, 446-9, nos. 191, 242 (RRH no. 322)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1238
year: 1187
initiator: Raymond III, count of Tripoli
recipient: Pisans
text: Aug. 1-31. Tripoli. Raymond III, Dei gracia Tripolis comes, confirms under seal all the freedoms the Pisans claim within his land. They have the right to import and export all their merchandise without the payment of any duty and in the city of Tripoli they have a court [curia] with the right to judge in all cases except murder and treason. Witnesses: Raimundus de Biblio, Ugo de Biblio; Raimundus de Nephnis; Astafortis; Errodus; Guiglielmus Porceletus; Iohannes mariscalcus; Giraldus vicecomes; Dalmacius de Valciam; Saisius; Raimundus; Constantinus; Iohannes de Moneta; Philippus Velox; Bandinus Bec; Guilielmus Cathalanus; Guilielmus Firminus; Francardus .....; Matheus cancellarius, who drew up the charter.
Aug. 1-31. Tripoli. Raymond III, Dei gracia Tripolis comes, confirms under seal all the freedoms the Pisans claim within his land. They have the right to import and export all their merchandise without the payment of any duty and in the city of Tripoli they have a court [curia] with the right to... more
sources: Müller, Documenti, pp. 25-6, no. 22 (RRH no. 662)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1249
year: 1187
initiator: Corradus, son of the marquess of Montferrat
recipient: Pisans
text: Oct. 1-31. Tyre. In the house of the Hospital. Wishing to reward those who are helping him defend Tyre and with the advice and consent of magister Monachus Cesariensis archiepiscopus, domnus Leotardus Nazarenus archiepiscopus, domnus Odo episcopus Sydonie, domnus frater Terry domus milicie Templi magnus preceptor, frater Borellus magnus preceptor Hospitalis, other brothers, the milites and burgenses of Tyre and all the commune civitatis, Corradus, son of the marquess of Montferrat, confirms under seal for the Pisans all the gifts and concessions made to them by the late Count Raymond III of Tripoli in Tyre and in its region. These include houses that belonged to the Knights Templar, with a tower and a platea nearby, stretching to the sea near their fondacum above the city wall; houses that belonged to the sons of the late Balduinus Pisanus near the platea by the sea and next to their fundacum; houses that belonged to Matheus Iohannis Guidi, next to the platea by the sea that extend from the houses of the sons of Balduinus to the houses of Vguicio Taliauenti and Guinus Pisanus; and houses that belonged to the king where there was a scriptorium [in which cartule were made] and which are situated beyond the Pisan fundacum. Corradus confirms: the Pisans’ possession of the platea portus on which nothing can be built, except a Pisan logia; the possession by the Pisan commune of an oven, the furnus buciarie, which had belonged to the king and is situated in the ruga buciarie, and a bath house, which had also belonged to the king and is situated in the ruga Templi, by the ruga sancti Iuliani; the right to build 2 horse-mills [molendina equi] in Tyre and an oven in their houses, as specified in a charter from King Baldwin; the right to use weights and measures [statera, et pensae et modia et mensurae] for wine and oil and all other things, conceded to them by Count Raymond, which they can use in sales to other persons; the possession by the Pisan commune outside Tyre and in its neighbourhood of a water mill, with a house and the water, conceded by Count Raymond, a casale called Talobie with 2 guastinae, Rasalaine with all buildings, mills, water and milling rights, a casale called Sydio with a hillside guastina [guastina montis], and Ainebeddelle, with its waters and a garden that had belonged to the king. Corradus also confirms for the commune of the Pisans in Tyre all its liberties and the curia, which it had possessed for a long time in Tyre, and which had been confirmed by Count Raymond of Tripoli. He adds that all Pisans and those leased houses by them, whether swordsmen [scapuli], burgenses, milites, sea captains [comiti] or of any lay condition whatever, should be judged in the Pisan curia, except for cases involving feoda or assisiae, which should be judged in the curiae of lords [domni]. Otherwise no Pisan shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the royal curia in Tyre or elsewhere throughout the kingdom. On the other hand, the king can exact dues [talia] on the houses of Pisan burgenses situated outside the Pisan quarter [extra honorem Pisani communis] if he exacts it elsewhere in the city of Tyre, but he cannot impose any other dues [dricture] because of military or other needs, and the Pisans and those who rent Pisan propertes are to be exempt from terciaria and other dues. Corradus concedes to the Pisans the right to have a vicecomes or consul to run their curia, the right to place their own men in the catena, funda and gates of the city of Tyre to look after Pisans and those who rent properties from them, who are to be free from any attempt by king’s men or those of any baro to tax them on entry and departure. The Pisans are to be free from charges on shipwreck and from any charge on houses, ovens, baths, casalia, mills and weights and measures [statera et pensae et modia et mensurae]. The heirs of Pisans who die can recover their feoda and assisiae. The Pisans have the right to have their own church and its liberties, which Corradus will defend. And because the Pisans have remained in Tyre and are fighting the Sarraceni in defence of the kingdom they will in future be freed from all servicia for the gifts that have been made to them. Witnesses: Frater Giofredus Morin preceptor domus Templi in Tyro; frater Bertramus Deltana miles Templi; frater Petrus Iterii miles; frater Wuillelmus de Uendobre miles; frater Vgo Giofrei miles; frater Achardus Templi capellanus; of the Order [domus] of the Hospital, Frater Hermengaldus prior Sancti Egidii; frater Wuillelmus Alvernacius; frater Pontius de Baia; of the barones, Domnus Hugo Tyberiadis; domnus Radulfus frater eius; domnus Gualterius Cesaree; domnus Helias vicecomes Nazareth; Eustachius vicecomes Legionis; Rainerius de Marone; Vbertus de Orgiolo; Iterius de Manni; Amalricus Godescalci; Wuillelmus de Chaineto; Vbertus Nepos senescalcus marchionis; Ansaldus Bonuicinus; Balduinus frater eius; Bernardus Templi in Tyro vicecomes; Wuillelmus Caim; Matheus Iohannis Guidi; Symon de Falesia. The charter was drawn up by Bandinus domni marchionis scriba.
Oct. 1-31. Tyre. In the house of the Hospital. Wishing to reward those who are helping him defend Tyre and with the advice and consent of magister Monachus Cesariensis archiepiscopus, domnus Leotardus Nazarenus archiepiscopus, domnus Odo episcopus Sydonie, domnus frater Terry domus milicie Templi... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:859-65, no. 519 (RRH no. 665)
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)
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1378
year: 1196
initiator: Henricus de Trecis comes pallatinus et Terre Hierusalem domnus
recipient: Pisans
text: Oct. 19. [254] Acre. In the palatium. Having taken the advice of Patriarch [Aymar] Monachus of Jerusalem and his barones, Henricus Trecensium comes palatinus makes a sealed grant to all Pisans, giving them protection and security in his land, to come, stay, sell and go. On the other hand, he bans the [Pisan] pirate ships Aquila and Imperialis, which have caused great damage. Witnesses: Domnus Rainaldus Sydonis; domnus Vgo Tyberiadis; domnus Radulfus senescalcus; Baldeuinus de Bethan; Gerardus de Crico; Villanus de Alneto.
Oct. 19. [254] Acre. In the palatium. Having taken the advice of Patriarch [Aymar] Monachus of Jerusalem and his barones, Henricus Trecensium comes palatinus makes a sealed grant to all Pisans, giving them protection and security in his land, to come, stay, sell and go. On the other hand, he bans... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:964-6, no. 581 (RRH no. 735)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1484
year: 1201
initiator: Bohemond III, prince of Antioch
recipient: Pisans
text: Mar. 20. [269] Antioch. In the palatium. Bohemond, Dei gratia princeps Antiochie, the son of Prince Raymond, places on record under seal that Simon Foglianelli consul Pisanorum Acconis and his companions Petrus iudex and Federicus Mochi, legati of the commune of Pisa, came into his presence and asked him, in the name of all Pisans, to confirm the charter [privilegium] that his mother Constantia had granted to Buctaccius the legatus of the Pisans and also to confirm his own charter [privilegium], which he had granted in Tyre to all Pisans. With the agreement of his wife Ysabella principissa, Bohemond therefore confirms both charters, assuring the Pisans that their rights will not be challenged by any baiulus or pauctonarius. He adds that he grants the Pisans that on all the goods for sale after importation [de commercio intrando] the duty is to be 3 per cent; after weighing [de quirato commercii] 2 per cent; on passage through the principality [de passagio], half, and on all other duties owed by Latins, half; on the personal tax levied on Pisans at the pons Ferri half duty [directura]; half of the tertianaria at the port of Sanctus Symon; half of ancoragium; half of the duty on wine, that is to say the payment of 1 denarius in every besant; in relation to the caban commercii, 3 unciae on every 100 ritulis. Witnesses: Petrus de Ravandello; Rogerius constabularies; Iohannes de Salquino; Iacobus de Marasio; Richerius de Erminato; Nicholaus Ialmus; Oddo de Maire; Thomas marescalcus; Guilielmus de Insula; Pascalis de Seona; Hugo de Curbulio dux Antiochie.
Mar. 20. [269] Antioch. In the palatium. Bohemond, Dei gratia princeps Antiochie, the son of Prince Raymond, places on record under seal that Simon Foglianelli consul Pisanorum Acconis and his companions Petrus iudex and Federicus Mochi, legati of the commune of Pisa, came into his presence and... more
sources: Müller, Documenti, pp. 80-1, no. 50 (RRH no. 769)
year: 1202
initiator: Plebanus dominus Botroni, together with his wife domina Cecilia
recipient: Pisans
text: Mar. 1-31. Plebanus dominus Botroni, together with his wife domina Cecilia, makes a sealed grant to the Pisans from Pisa. He frees them from the payment of all dues [diritura] on merchandise when they enter or leave Botronum by land or sea, except for the payment of 1 marzapanus that ought to be paid by every boat [lignum] carrying wheat for sale in the land of Botronum, and except for those Pisans who are resident in the land of Tripoli and those who are the homines of Plebanus in the land of Botronum. Witnesses: Bertrandus Dorel; Rainaldus de Valaria; Ugo Daguiler; Petrus de Cafarca; Petrus de Mornas; Boemundus.
Mar. 1-31. Plebanus dominus Botroni, together with his wife domina Cecilia, makes a sealed grant to the Pisans from Pisa. He frees them from the payment of all dues [diritura] on merchandise when they enter or leave Botronum by land or sea, except for the payment of 1 marzapanus that ought to be... more
sources: Müller, Documenti, pp. 83-4, no. 53 (RRH no. 788)