RRR: Correspondence/envoy
510
year: 1150
initiator: Guigo de Blavone/Blahomio, a monk of Grandmont
recipient: Provost and canons of Saint Junien of Condom
text: (c. 1150?). Guigo de Blavone/Blahomio, a monk of Grandmont, writes to the provost and canons of St Junien of Condom, in an attempt to demonstrate the authenticity of relics brought back from the Holy Land by him and his companions – Stephanus; v. de Adarnac; de Daurato; Imbertus frater noster; Gaufredus Calvus; Gaufredus Coena; Bernardus miles noster – although the seals of authentication were stolen on the journey home. The relics, which are listed, were presented by the patriarch of Jerusalem, qui mihi domesticus erat and a close friend; magister Stephanus capellanus de Inventione; abbatissa S. Mariae Latinae, ‘who originated from our part of the world’; Johannes capellanus de Napplio et frater Hospitalis; the bishop of Bethlehem; the abbot of the Templum Domini; the abbot of Mt Sion; the abbot of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat; the prior of the Mount of Olives; the prior of Hebron; the prior of the Holy Sepulchre; the patriarch of Antioch; the archbishop of Mt Sinai; the abbot of Sinai; and the countess of Edessa.
(c. 1150?). Guigo de Blavone/Blahomio, a monk of Grandmont, writes to the provost and canons of St Junien of Condom, in an attempt to demonstrate the authenticity of relics brought back from the Holy Land by him and his companions – Stephanus; v. de Adarnac; de Daurato; Imbertus frater noster;... more
sources: Kohler, ‘Documents inédits’, pp. 6-9, no 1 (RRH no. 265a)