year: 1216
initiator: Raymond Rupen, prince of Antioch
recipient: Isabelle, the widow of Prince Bohemond III of Antioch
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: *Dec. 1-31? Prince Raymond Rupen of Antioch confirms that Isabelle, the widow of Prince Bohemond III of Antioch, has given the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem a rent of 20 besants of Antioch, to be drawn each year from the revenues of the casale of Gédéide.
*Dec. 1-31? Prince Raymond Rupen of Antioch confirms that Isabelle, the widow of Prince Bohemond III of Antioch, has given the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem a rent of 20 besants of Antioch, to be drawn each year from the revenues of the casale of Gédéide.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:196, no. 1491 (RRH no. 898a)
RRR: Privilege/exemption
1741
year: 1216
initiator: Sultan al-Adil
recipient: Pisans
text: 1215 - 1216. Damascus. Sultan al-Adil grants the Pisans safe-conduct and rights throughout his dominions. Among the privileges are the right to trade between Acre and Cairo as long as there are truces with the Pisans and the Franks in Syria; and similarly the right of passage between Barbary, Egypt and Syria.
1215 - 1216. Damascus. Sultan al-Adil grants the Pisans safe-conduct and rights throughout his dominions. Among the privileges are the right to trade between Acre and Cairo as long as there are truces with the Pisans and the Franks in Syria; and similarly the right of passage between Barbary, Egypt... more
sources: Amari, I diplomi arabi, pp. 285-9, nos. 24-5 (RRH nos. 882-3)
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1742
year: 1217
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Giacomo Barbo, the procurator of the church of St Mark in Venice
institution: Saint Mark in Tyre
text: Mar. 8. Lateran. At the request of Giacomo Barbo, the procurator of the church of St Mark in Venice, reinforced by an appeal from the doge of Venice, Pope Honorius III, recognizing a changed situation, assures Giacomo that after a certain time the Venetians will recover the church of St Mark in Tyre and its possessions, at present under the custody of the archbishop of Tyre.
Mar. 8. Lateran. At the request of Giacomo Barbo, the procurator of the church of St Mark in Venice, reinforced by an appeal from the doge of Venice, Pope Honorius III, recognizing a changed situation, assures Giacomo that after a certain time the Venetians will recover the church of St Mark in... more
sources: Claverie, Honorius, pp. 298-9, no 7 (RRH no. 893)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1743
year: 1217
initiator: James of Vitry
recipient: Paris masters William de Pont d’Arche, Ralph of Namur, Alexander of Courçon, Philip archdeacon of Noyon, and to the Lady [Abbess] Luitgarde of St Trudon and the community of Aywières
text: End of Mar. [307] Acre. Writing to the Paris masters William de Pont d’Arche, Ralph of Namur, Alexander of Courçon, Philip archdeacon of Noyon, and to the Lady [Abbess] Luitgarde of St Trudon and the community of Aywières, James of Vitry [I. Acconensis ecclesie minister humilis] recalls his eventful sea voyage from Genoa to Acre, which he reached on 4 November 1216. He describes the various Christian denominations he finds there and his relations with them: Iacobite, Suriani and Nestoriani, Georgiani, Armeni, who do not have a resident bishop or leader, and, of course, Latins, although there are communities - Genoese, Pisan and Venetian - which are exempt from his authority, which is confined to the indigenous Latins, the Pullani, called Poulains in French. There are also criminals, who have migrated from their own nations. He discourses on the wickedness of some of the clergy and of the city, and he is shocked by the reluctance of owners to allow their Muslim [Sarraceni] slaves to be baptised. He preaches the coming crusade. He refers to other Christian settlements and their need of evangelization: Tyre, Beirut, Gibelet, Crac, Tortosa, Margath, Album Castrum, Tripoli, Antioch, the island of Cyprus, Jaffa and Caesarea. He makes special mention of places of pilgrimage close to Acre - Nazareth and Mt Carmel, which he can see from his window. At the time of the writing of this section of his letter, he has not yet been able to visit them for fear of the Sarraceni. He describes his daily life in detail: the celebration of Mass, the hearing of confessions until after midday when he has his main meal, although he has lost his appetite, and then the hearing of cases. So busy is he that he has to reserve prayer and contemplation for night time. Continuing his letter, he narrates how just before Lent, in spite of the danger posed by the Assasi, he travelled on a crusade-preaching journey, visiting holy places on the way: Tyre, Sarepta Sydoniorum, Beirut, where he met the archbishop of the Suriani, Biblium, Tripoli, where he met the comes civitatis et princeps Antiochie [Bohemond IV], accompanied by many milites, and where he found the common language was Arabic [lingua saracena], Crac, from where he sent letters by pigeon post, Castrum Album of the Knights Templar, Antaradus [Tortosa], with its chapel dedicated by St Peter to the Blessed Virgin Mary and with the island of Aradus, and Margat, from where he proposed to take a boat for Antioch. Receiving a letter from the patriarch of Jerusalem calling on him to return, because of the imminent arrival by sea of crusaders [peregrini], he intended to travel in a galea to Cyprus, but was held up by the weather for 15 days. Hearing that one of the hermits of Niger Mons, called Nero, had successfully preached the cross in Cyprus and knowing that the residents of Acre wanted him to return, he went back to his diocese. He ends by maintaining that with 4000 armed milites the Christians could be successful, because, he believes, of Prester John’s Christian forces in Asia and because of the quarrels among the Sarraceni, their sectarian divisions and different practices, including the Fratres Cutellorum [Assassins], with their abbas, the Vetulus Montanus. He returns briefly to the Christian sects - Suriani, Nestoriani, Iacobite and Maronitae, who are now Uniates. He believes that there is a profitable field for missions. He ends by asking for prayers for himself and his capellanus and faithful companion Iohannes de Cameraco.
End of Mar. [307] Acre. Writing to the Paris masters William de Pont d’Arche, Ralph of Namur, Alexander of Courçon, Philip archdeacon of Noyon, and to the Lady [Abbess] Luitgarde of St Trudon and the community of Aywières, James of Vitry [I. Acconensis ecclesie minister humilis] recalls his... more
sources: James of Vitry, Lettres, pp. 79-97, no. 2 (RRH no. 894)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1744
year: 1217
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Jul. 7. Anagni. Pope Honorius III forbids bishops to impose ecclesiastical sanctions on the churches of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre in disputes over property and he confirms for the prior and convent of the Holy Sepulchre their freedom from tithes with respect to lands held by them before the Fourth Lateran Council. In a second letter he confirms the privileges granted by Popes Honorius II, Innocent II, Celestine, II, Lucius II, Eugenius III and Alexander III, taking the church of the Holy Sepulchre under papal protection, confirming the canons’ adherence to the Rule of St Augustine, and their possessions, specifying: half of all oblations offered to the Holy Sepulchre; oblations to the True Cross, except on Good Friday and when the patriarch needs them; the tithes of the city of Jerusalem and all the diocese, given by Patriarch Arnulf; land in in the new town [in novo burgo] of Nablus, given by King Amalric, and the church the canons built there with the agreement of Patriarch Amalric; houses and lands in the same city; the tithes of a casale called Derina and of a viridarium that is between the wall of Tyre and the forewall, given by the late Petrus Tyrensis archiepiscopus; the casalia of Bethel, Hudemamel, Dersabe, Huodabes and Dermesur, bought from Hugo de Hibelino; the casalia of Betatap and De Rasen, with their guastine and dependencies, bought from Johannes Gothmanni; the casale called Geladia, which King Amalric when count of Ascalon gave in recompense for the expenses of the canons in the capture of Ascalon; the 2 casalia of Cafarup and Vetus Bethoron and the guastina of Derfres, which were acquired in an exchange with the abbot and monks of St Sabas; the land within and outside the city of Old Haifa [Vetus Caypha] given by Vivianus dominus Cayphe with the agreement of his son Paganus; the house the canons built there and the land which the 2 brothers Rogerius and Johannes gave; the church and tithes of that land and its animals, conceded by Ern[esius] Cesariensis archiepiscopus and confirmed by charter; the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Acre; the casale called Mimas with 2 carrucate terre, given by Lambertus; 2 carrucate terre given by Giraldus de Cunin; the garden that had belonged to Mainardus de Portu, given by his son Raimundus when he became a confrater [frater] of the Holy Sepulchre; the 2 casalia of Gebul and Hecar, together with fishing rights for 8 days on the Sea of Galilee, the angaria [of the fishermen] for one day and a boat [navis], given by Willelmus de Burgis and confirmed in a charter by his son Gualterius princeps Tyberiadis; the house and lands in Calcalia given by Fredericus, a confrater [frater] of the Holy Sepulchre, and confirmed by Bartholomeus, dominus of the villa, who added 1 carrucata terre; all the houses in the city of Jerusalem confirmed by the king [Amalric]; the house bought from the archbishop of Tyre. The pope also confirms the right of the prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate stational Masses at and to process to the Templum Domini, the Mt of Olives, Mt Sion and St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat on their feasts, even when the patriarch is absent. They also have the right, in the patriarch’s absence, to excommunicate malefactors in their parishes, especially those who withhold the payment of tithes. None of their goods can be alienated or pledged, except by the common agreement, or that of the wiser part, of the canons; nor can anyone be sent overseas, suspended or expelled, unless his fault is manifest. Confratres can receive communion from the canons and be buried in the canons’ cemeteries unless they are excommunicated. The patriarch cannot extort goods from the canons and confratres. The canons are freed from payment of tithes on noval lands, cultivated by themselves or at their expense, or providing animal fodder. The election of priors by the canons is to be free from interference.
Jul. 7. Anagni. Pope Honorius III forbids bishops to impose ecclesiastical sanctions on the churches of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre in disputes over property and he confirms for the prior and convent of the Holy Sepulchre their freedom from tithes with respect to lands held by them before the... more
sources: Claverie, Honorius, pp. 299-304, nos. 8-9 (RRH no. 895)
year: 1217
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Brothers of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Jul. 8. Anagni. Pope Honorius III exempts the brothers of the Holy Sepulchre from payment of the crusade tax of a twentieth.
Jul. 8. Anagni. Pope Honorius III exempts the brothers of the Holy Sepulchre from payment of the crusade tax of a twentieth.
sources: Claverie, Honorius, pp. 304-5, no. 10
RRR: Eleemosynary grant
1746
year: 1217
initiator: Bertrandus Margati dominus, Agnes his daughter and Aymericus Berlai her husband
recipient: Garinus de Monte Acuto, master of the Hospital of St John
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Jul. 23. Nicosia. In the presence of King Hugh of Cyprus and dominus Eustorgius Nichossiensis archiepiscopus, Bertrandus de Margato, Agnes his daughter and Aymericus Berlai her husband confirm for frater Garinus de Monte Acuto magister sancte domus Hospitalis Iherusalem that on the day of his death Renaldus, the son of Bertrandus, made an eleemosynary grant to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem of a rent of 200 Saracen besants, to be paid annually out of the rent of 2200 besants paid each year by the Hospital of St John to the family [for Margatum], as is laid down in a charter. King Hugh and Eustorgius archiepiscopus confirm this with their seals. Witnesses: Johannes Paphensis canonicus Nichossiensis; magister Baldoinus canonicus Nichossiensis; Alduinus canonicus Nichossiensis; Galterius Cesar. regni Cypri conestabulus; Galterius de Betsan; Bertrandus de Gibeleth; Petrus Champ; Renaudus Suessionis marescalcus regni Cypri; Balduinus de Nore; Jacobus de Riveth.
Jul. 23. Nicosia. In the presence of King Hugh of Cyprus and dominus Eustorgius Nichossiensis archiepiscopus, Bertrandus de Margato, Agnes his daughter and Aymericus Berlai her husband confirm for frater Garinus de Monte Acuto magister sancte domus Hospitalis Iherusalem that on the day of his death... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:226-7, no. 1579 (RRH no. 896)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1747
year: 1217
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: King of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Jerusalem, and the magistri of the Kinghts Templar and the Hospitallers of Saint John
text: Jul. 24. Ferentino. Pope Honorius III informs the king of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Jerusalem, and the magistri of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers of St John that the king of Hungary, the duke of Austria and other crusaders plan to muster on Cyprus on the Feast of the Nativity of the the Blessed Virgin Mary [8 September]. They should meet and advise them.
Jul. 24. Ferentino. Pope Honorius III informs the king of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Jerusalem, and the magistri of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers of St John that the king of Hungary, the duke of Austria and other crusaders plan to muster on Cyprus on the Feast of the Nativity of the the... more
sources: Schabel, Bullarium 1:185-6, nos. c-4, c-5
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1748
year: 1217
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Western prelates
text: Jul. 24. Ferentino. Pope Honorius writes to western prelates, telling them that he has informed the patriarch of Jerusalem, the king of Jerusalem and the magistri of the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar that the king of Hungary, the duke of Austria and other crusaders are planning to muster in Cyprus on the following Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary [8 September], where they should meet them and decide what to do. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano has been appointed papal legate. He will act on the advice of the Hospitallers and Knights Templar on matters such as the redemption of vows. No crusader is to visit the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, because this involves making payments to the Sarraceni.
Jul. 24. Ferentino. Pope Honorius writes to western prelates, telling them that he has informed the patriarch of Jerusalem, the king of Jerusalem and the magistri of the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar that the king of Hungary, the duke of Austria and other crusaders... more
sources: Schabel, Bullarium 1:183-5, no. c-3
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1749
year: 1217
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Cardinal Pelagius of Albano
text: Jul. 25 and Jul. 27. Ferentino. Pope Honorius III orders Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, to protect Raymond Rupen, the prince of Antioch, in the name of the apostolic see.
Jul. 25 and Jul. 27. Ferentino. Pope Honorius III orders Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, to protect Raymond Rupen, the prince of Antioch, in the name of the apostolic see.
sources: Claverie, Honorius, pp. 305, 309-10, nos. 11, 15