RRR: Eleemosynary grant
1045
year: 1179
initiator: Constance, comtesse de S Gilles
recipient: Roger de Moulins, master of the Hospital
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Dec. 25 1178 - Dec. 24 1179. [161] Constancia, daughter of King Louis VI of France, sister of King Louis VII of France and S. Egidii comitissa, is admitted in common chapter by magister R. de Molinis as a consoror of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. She chooses to be buried in the Order’s cemetery. She makes a sealed eleemosynary gift to the Hospital and the poor of the casale of Betheras on the plain of Ascalon, which she had bought with all its rights. She imposes the condition that while she remains in the East the Order will give her 500 besants a year, payable on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If she should return to the West, the Order will provide her, in place of the 500 besants, with 12 and half marks in unadulterated silver of Troyes weight, payable each Pentecost in the Hospital’s chapter, meeting at Quierzy [Ceresers] or elsewhere. After her death the Order will bury her as a consoror and commemorate her obit every year. Witnesses: dominus R. de Sidone; dominus P[etrus]. de Creseto castellanus de Jerusalem; Willelmus de Molebech; Anselmus filius Gibelini; Rainaldus Litaldus; Amalricus de Franco Loco; Anselmus Babin; Robertus Niger; Nicolaus Manzur; Robertus de Pinkeni; Joffridus de Turs; W[illelmus] Ebraldi; Johannes Brecci; Ernulfus de Blanca Garda; Petrus de S. Lazaro; Odrez; Bernardus Proez; Robertus de casali S. Egidii; Soffridus d’Issodun; Tiebaldus de Canci; magister Lambertus, who wrote the charter.
Dec. 25 1178 - Dec. 24 1179. [161] Constancia, daughter of King Louis VI of France, sister of King Louis VII of France and S. Egidii comitissa, is admitted in common chapter by magister R. de Molinis as a consoror of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. She chooses to be buried in the Order’s... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:373-4, no. 551. See Hiestand, PTJ 2:256-9, no. 41 (RRH no. 503)