RRR: Chronicle entry/narrative sources
1480
year: 1200
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: †(c. 1200). Report of a heavenly letter, discovered over the altar of St Symeon on Golgotha in Jerusalem and accepted as authentic by the patriarch and by Akarias archiepiscopus, commanding Christians to observe Sundays strictly on pain of divine punishment.
†(c. 1200). Report of a heavenly letter, discovered over the altar of St Symeon on Golgotha in Jerusalem and accepted as authentic by the patriarch and by Akarias archiepiscopus, commanding Christians to observe Sundays strictly on pain of divine punishment.
sources: Roger of Howden 4:167-169 (RRH no. 778)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1481
year: 1201
initiator: Gregorius catholicus Armeniorum
recipient: Pope Innocent III
text: Early in year. Gregorius episcopus Catholicus omnium Armeniorum writes to Pope Innocent III on the teaching of the Armenian Church, its acceptance of papal primacy, his authority and its sufferings.
Early in year. Gregorius episcopus Catholicus omnium Armeniorum writes to Pope Innocent III on the teaching of the Armenian Church, its acceptance of papal primacy, his authority and its sufferings.
sources: Innocent III, ‘Register’, 214:1007-10, no. 45
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1482
year: 1201
initiator: Pope Innocent III
recipient: Emperor Alexius III
text: Early in the year. Lateran. Pope Innocent III replies to the Byzantine emperor Alexius III, who had asked the pope to force, through sentence of excommunication, the king of Jerusalem to restore Cyprus, which had been seized by King Richard of England in violation of a treaty of peace, to the Byzantine empire and to confine the resources of the king, the Hospitallers of St John and the Knights Templar to the aid of the Holy Land. Alexius threatened to send a fleet to reconquer the island. Innocent agrees that King Richard had taken the island, but points out that at that time Cyprus was in no way dependent on the Byzantine empire. He will send a fuller reply after garnering more information. In the meantime, he warns Alexius to desist from attacking the island, because he would endanger the Holy Land.
Early in the year. Lateran. Pope Innocent III replies to the Byzantine emperor Alexius III, who had asked the pope to force, through sentence of excommunication, the king of Jerusalem to restore Cyprus, which had been seized by King Richard of England in violation of a treaty of peace, to the... more
sources: Schabel, Bullarium 1:129-31, no. b-15 (RRH no. 782)
year: 1201
initiator: Ademarus Cesaree Palestine dominus
recipient: Soquerius Scribanus
text: Feb. 1-28. With the agreement of his wife Domina Juliana and their son dominus Galterius Cesaree, Ademarius Cesaree Palestine dominus makes a sealed grant to Soquerius Scribanus and his legitimate heirs, giving the feudum that had belonged to Johannes, the uncle of Soquerius. The feudum comprises the following: at Kafarletum 1 measured carrucata terre, a house, the threshing floor [area] held by the uncle of Soquerius; at the same Kafarletum and at Samaritanum, Solimania and Casale de Bufalis, 2 clichae each of wheat and barley from the threshings [secatores segetum] and gleanings [glenatores], and half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor; at casale Megedellum 3 per cent of the fruits, 1 clicha each of wheat and barley from the threshings and gleanings, half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor, and 20 modii of wheat in assisia; at Zebedellum 6 per cent of all produce, 1 clicha each of wheat and barley from the gleanings, and half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor; at Trassim and Allar, 1 clicha each of wheat and barley from the threshings and gleanings, and half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor; at Casale Aloen, Hatil and Bezzemel, half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor; in the half of Gelenne that belongs to the lord of Caesarea, 1 clicha each of wheat and barley from the threshings and gleanings and half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor; at Soeta, 1 clicha each of wheat and barley from the threshings and gleanings and and half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor; at Pharaon, Mezgebinum and Cafetum, half a modius each of wheat and barley from the camels that carry the harvest to the threshing floor. Ademarius also reimburses Soquerius for the expenses incurred by his travelling on horse: a servant [serventus], barley, iron and nails and restor [the replacement of a horse]. If the son of Johannes Scribanus should be liberated by the pagani or a closer heir to Johannes appears, the feudum should be surrendered, saving the bodily servitium owed by Soquerius, who will in that situation receive 40 besants. Georgius, the relative of Soquerius, has surrendered any rights he might have to the feudum. Witnesses: of the milites of Caesarea, Simon; Mattheus; Renerius de Coffia; Rogerius de Castellione; Johannes; Gervasius, ......; ….de Beugant; Johannes Karoh; Helias Karoh frater ejus; Isembardus; Hugo de Buria; Girardus Passarel; Robertus Perret.
Feb. 1-28. With the agreement of his wife Domina Juliana and their son dominus Galterius Cesaree, Ademarius Cesaree Palestine dominus makes a sealed grant to Soquerius Scribanus and his legitimate heirs, giving the feudum that had belonged to Johannes, the uncle of Soquerius. The feudum comprises... more
sources: Paoli, Cod dipl 1:288-9, no. 9 (RRH no. 768)
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)
RRR: Eleemosynary grant
1485
year: 1201
initiator: Aimery of Cyprus
recipient: Patriarch Aymar Monachus of Jerusalem and the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Mar. 1-31. Nicosia. Aimery, Dei gratia Latinorum rex nonus et rex Cipro, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant to Patriarch [Aymar] Monachus of Jerusalem and the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre. He gives them a casale in Cyprus called Pendache with its villani and other dependencies, freed from all servitium. He excludes the fons Sancti Georgii with 10 carrucatae around it, which he had already given to the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, and the gifts that he and his brother King Guy had donated to their homines. Witnesses: Aymericus de Rivet senescalcus Cypri; Rainerius Bibliot[ensis]; Rainaldus Suess[ionensis]; Rustanus Aymar; Raynaldus de Balma; Guillelmus de Balma frater ejus; Symon Paphensis; Balduinus Usseri[us]. The charter was drawn up by Alanus Nicossensis archiepiscopus et Cypri cancellarius.
Mar. 1-31. Nicosia. Aimery, Dei gratia Latinorum rex nonus et rex Cipro, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant to Patriarch [Aymar] Monachus of Jerusalem and the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre. He gives them a casale in Cyprus called Pendache with its villani and other dependencies, freed from all... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 331-2, no. 174 (RRH no. 780)
year: 1201
initiator: King Leon I of Cilician Armenia
recipient: Genoese
text: Mar. 1-31. Leon, Dei gratia rex Armeniorum, filius Stephanus et de potenti genere Rupinorum, postquam divina clementia promotus sum ad regalem dignitatem et sublimatus regali corone per manus Romani Imperii, wishes to encourage the Genoese to come to his kingdom. And so he makes a grant, signed in both Armenian and Latin, to Ogerius de Pallo, representing the Genoese. He gives freedom to come and go and sell throughout his land, entering and leaving through his ports. He gives the Genoese and their goods and merchandise safe conduct thoughout his land and those of his barones, so that the Genoese are freed on their purchases and sales from all servitium, drictura, pactum, exactio, angaria tributi vectigalis. Their goods are to be safe in shipwrecks. He gives land in his cities of Sisum, Mamista and Tharsus, so that in each the Genoese may build a church, a fundum, houses and a curia, in which they will have jurisdiction over Genoese, although if a Genoese has a claim against a man of another nationality the case will be decided in the royal curia. The Genoese are held to defend the rights of the king and men [of Cilician Armenia]. The charter was drawn up by Iohannes archiepiscopus Sisensis, Trium Arcium abbas, totius regni Armenie legatus et cancellarius.
Mar. 1-31. Leon, Dei gratia rex Armeniorum, filius Stephanus et de potenti genere Rupinorum, postquam divina clementia promotus sum ad regalem dignitatem et sublimatus regali corone per manus Romani Imperii, wishes to encourage the Genoese to come to his kingdom. And so he makes a grant, signed in... more
sources: Rovere and Puncuh I Libri 1/2:164-6, no. 344 (RRH no.781)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1487
year: 1201
initiator: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
recipient: Knights Templar
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
additional institution: Templars
text: *Apr. 17. Agreement between the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar, drawn up in the presence of both masters, ruling on the extraction of water from a spring for irrigate their lands and run their mills.
*Apr. 17. Agreement between the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar, drawn up in the presence of both masters, ruling on the extraction of water from a spring for irrigate their lands and run their mills.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:7, no. 1144 (RRH no. 783a)
RRR: Eleemosynary grant
1488
year: 1201
initiator: Marinus Mazuc
recipient: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Apr. 27. Marinus Mazuc, a citizen of Genoa, records that he has become a confrater of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and makes an eleemosynary grant. He gives frater Gaufridus magister domus Hospitalis and his brothers an annual rent of 1 marcha argenti, to be drawn from the proceeds of 4 stationes in Acre. 2 of these are situated between stationes of the Hospital and of Rollandus Nepos, the brother of Antelmus de Luca. The third statio is situated between the stationes of Rollandus and of Andreas Ruffus, and the fourth is situated between the stationes of Andreas and of Bandinus Bec a Pisan. All lie between the public way [via publica] to the north and the waters of the port of the city of Acre to the south. The Hospitallers will collect and have custody of the shop rents, retaining the marcha argenti, and will assure Marinus of his possession of other properties in Syria, but on his death the 4 stationes will pass to them. Because Marinus does not have a lead seal, he has had 2 copies of this record made, one sealed with his seal in wax. Witnesses: frater Gaufridus magister, into whose hands the gift was made; frater Guillelmus Lumbardus preceptor domus Hospitalis Accon; frater Antelmus thesaurarius domus Accon; frater Isambardus prior Francie; frater Simon senescallus magistri; and other brothers; of laymen, dominus Belmustus Lercarius; Willelmus Usus Maris; Vivaldus Moricla; and others.
Apr. 27. Marinus Mazuc, a citizen of Genoa, records that he has become a confrater of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and makes an eleemosynary grant. He gives frater Gaufridus magister domus Hospitalis and his brothers an annual rent of 1 marcha argenti, to be drawn from the proceeds of 4... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:7-8, no. 1145 (RRH no. 783)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1489
year: 1201
initiator: Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
recipient: Prior Anglie of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Dec. 24 1200 - early summer 1201. [270] The magister Hospitalis Jerusalem informs the prior Anglie of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem that the bishop of Acre, many pilgrims and many Hospitallers on their way to the West on the business of the Holy Land perished in a shipwreck off Biblium on the coast of Tripoli during the last passagium. Other ships carrying Hospitaller messengers from Acre were forced by storm damage to seek refuge in Tripoli. He reports that in the Muslim world the lord of Damascus, Sephadinus [al-‘Adil], has become master of Cairo [Babilon], expelling his nephew and others and is in a tense relationship with the sultan of Aleppo and many others. The Nile has failed to flood, leading to famine and the loss of livestock in Egypt, and a host of Egyptians have descended, like locusts, on the Holy Land. A young low-born Saracenus has been preaching an evangelical Christian campaign and has converted and baptized 2000. With the threat posed to the Latin East by the union of Damascus and Cairo, he appeals for help to the prior and to the king of England. He adds that in the invasion of Sicily by the Germans and Lombards the Hospitaller commandery [domus] of Barletta has been abandoned and that since the prior Anglie himself left the East no provisions have been received from the kingdom of Sicily, leading the Order to great expense in supplying its commanderies [domus] and castles. He needs money from the western Hospitaller communities. He asks for help to be sent on the next passagium in March.
Dec. 24 1200 - early summer 1201. [270] The magister Hospitalis Jerusalem informs the prior Anglie of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem that the bishop of Acre, many pilgrims and many Hospitallers on their way to the West on the business of the Holy Land perished in a shipwreck off Biblium on... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:1-2, no. 1131 (RRH no. 787)