year: 1250
text: †*August 20. King Louis IX of France grants augmentations to the coat of arms of the Teutonic Order, including the French royal lily, and gives the Order 2,000 besants and other goods.
†*August 20. King Louis IX of France grants augmentations to the coat of arms of the Teutonic Order, including the French royal lily, and gives the Order 2,000 besants and other goods.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1508-11, no. App. III/15
year: 1250
text: September 27. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the prior and brothers of the Order of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel, responding to their entreaties by granting that when there is a general interdict on the land they may celebrate the divine offices in their churches with closed doors, without ringing the bells, in a low voice, excluding excommunicates and those under interdict, as long as they themselves have not caused the interdict.
September 27. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the prior and brothers of the Order of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel, responding to their entreaties by granting that when there is a general interdict on the land they may celebrate the divine offices in their churches with closed doors, without... more
sources: summary Innocent IV, Les registres, 4870; Bullarium Carmelitanum 1:11, but misdated to 26 September 1251
year: 1250
text: September 27. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the prior and brothers of the Order of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel, responding to their requests by strengthening and taking their persons, places, and possessions obtained justly, present and future, under papal protection.
September 27. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the prior and brothers of the Order of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel, responding to their requests by strengthening and taking their persons, places, and possessions obtained justly, present and future, under papal protection.
sources: summary Innocent IV, Les registres, 4871; Bullarium Carmelitanum 1:11, but misdated to 26 September 1251
year: 1250
text: *Before September 29. In an agreement negotiated with Petrus de Terico, a citizen of Montpellier, [the government of the kingdom of Jerusalem] exempts the merchants of Montpellier, and those trading in association with them, from two-thirds of the duty owed to the catheniae of Acre and Tripoli. The agreement will come into effect with the first arrival in the port of Acre of the ship (navis) called La Baninhaira.
*Before September 29. In an agreement negotiated with Petrus de Terico, a citizen of Montpellier, [the government of the kingdom of Jerusalem] exempts the merchants of Montpellier, and those trading in association with them, from two-thirds of the duty owed to the catheniae of Acre and Tripoli. The... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1387-89, no. 797
year: 1250
text: October 13. Genoa. Nicoloso, son of Delomede Mangiavacche, citizen of Genoa, names as his procurators Giovanni Mangiavacca, magiscola of the cathedral of Antioch, Enrico da Avegno and Giacomo Mangiavacca to present to the bishop and chapter of Tortosa (Tartus) the letter of Pope Innocent IV granting him a canonry in that church.
October 13. Genoa. Nicoloso, son of Delomede Mangiavacche, citizen of Genoa, names as his procurators Giovanni Mangiavacca, magiscola of the cathedral of Antioch, Enrico da Avegno and Giacomo Mangiavacca to present to the bishop and chapter of Tortosa (Tartus) the letter of Pope Innocent IV... more
sources: Ferretto, ‘I Genovesi in Oriente nel carteggio di Innocenzo IV’, pp. 361-62, no. XXXII
year: 1250
text: After October 17. Brother William of Chastel Neuf (Frater Guillelmus de Castro Novo), sanctae domus Hospitalis Jerusalem magister informs Frater Gualterus de Sancto Martino praedicator that the captives of the Egyptians, including the king of France and his brothers, have been freed and have gone on to Acre. The king cannot leave Syria. He has sent his brothers and other nobles back to France for assistance. A major dispute has arisen between the sultans of Aleppo and Egypt, which may be advantageous.
After October 17. Brother William of Chastel Neuf (Frater Guillelmus de Castro Novo), sanctae domus Hospitalis Jerusalem magister informs Frater Gualterus de Sancto Martino praedicator that the captives of the Egyptians, including the king of France and his brothers, have been freed and have gone... more
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:203-4, no. 100; Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:698-99, no. 2540; RRH 1192
year: 1250
text: After October 17. Brother William of Chastel Neuf (Frater Guillelmus de Castro) Novo sanctae domus Hospitalis Jerusalem magister humilis et pauperum Christi custos informs Frater Gualterus de Sancto Martino praedicator that at the intervention of the king of France he and 30 of his brothers, together with many other religious and secular men, were freed from captivity by the Egyptians and reached Acre on 17 October. A major dispute has arisen between the sultans of Egypt and Aleppo, from which the Christians may take advantage when military help arrives from Europe.
After October 17. Brother William of Chastel Neuf (Frater Guillelmus de Castro) Novo sanctae domus Hospitalis Jerusalem magister humilis et pauperum Christi custos informs Frater Gualterus de Sancto Martino praedicator that at the intervention of the king of France he and 30 of his brothers,... more
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:204-5, no. 101; RRH 1193
year: 1250
text: After October 17. Acre. A brother of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem* narrates the course of the crusade of King Louis IX of France after the fall of Damietta. He describes the Christian advance into the interior of Egypt once the Nile flood had subsided; the encampment by the river; the crossing, at a place revealed by a Saracen (Sarracenus), by the king and his brothers the count of Artois (Atrabatensis comes), the count of Poitou (Pictavensis comes) and the count of Anjou (Andegavensis comes), the brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar, leaving the brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, the duke of Burgandy (dux Burgundiae), the count of Brittany (comes Britanniae) and others to guard the camp; the battle of Mansurah, during which the count of Artois (Atrabatensis comes) escaped, although this is later corrected, and Willelmus Longa Spata died a martyr. The brother of the Hospital of St John continues his narrative with the blockade of the Christians, the capture of the king and the rest of the army on 6 April, the insults to the ancient standards, the oriflamme (oloflamma) and the bauceant (baleanum), and the escape to Damietta of the legate, the patriarch of Jerusalem with some bishops and the duke of Burgundy (dux Burgundiae), who was sick. He summarizes the losses suffered by his Order and others. In the last engagement all the conventual brothers died, with the exception of the vicemagister et frater Johannes de Bonay, 4 who were taken prisoner and 1 who was taken with King Louis. Only 3 Knights Templar survived, although badly wounded, as the brother has been told while drafting his letter in Acre. The scouts (exploratores) sent by the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem into Egypt have not returned. In the battle of Mansurah, the count of Artois (comes Atrabatensis), about whom the brother of the Hospital of St John is critical, was killed, William (Willelmus) Longa Spata was martyred, and none of his company escaped, except for dominus Alexanderus Giffard, who was badly wounded and was later taken with the king or killed. Later in the letter this report is corrected: the vicemagister Johannes de Bonay was killed, together with the Order’s draparius. The truce made with the Egyptians was to last for 10 years, on, condition that the king of France paid 100,000 marcae argenti and that prisoners held by both sides since the battle of Le Forbie (bellum Gazaras, 1244) should be released; among these were the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Damietta was to be returned with all the arms and provisions in it. The Christians would hold Jaffa, Azothum, Caesarea, Castrum Peregrinum, Haifa, Caymotum, Nazareth, Saphotum, Beelford, Tyre, Canan Turoriis, which the Saracens (Sarraceni) occupied while the king was at Damietta, and Sidon, all of which the Christians held before the king’s arrival. The brother asks for prayers for the brothers of the Hospital of St John who had died. He believes that there were as many as 140 of them. He ends by criticizing prelates, and in particular a Dominican friar, who advised against accepting much better terms – the truce agreed in 1241 by Earl Richard of Cornwall (comes Ricardus), together with Jerusalem, Ascalon and Tiberias – while the army was camped at Mansurah. He criticizes the pope, who had refused to follow the good advice of the Emperor Frederick, advice that he hopes will still be followed. He has sent a shortened version of this letter to his brothers in France, but he is transmitting this longer version [to his unknown correspondent] and will write again if there are new developments.
After October 17. Acre. A brother of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem* narrates the course of the crusade of King Louis IX of France after the fall of Damietta. He describes the Christian advance into the interior of Egypt once the Nile flood had subsided; the encampment by the river; the... more
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:191-97, no. 95; Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:687, no. 2521; RRH 1191
year: 1250
text: October 18. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot of Saint Samuel of Acre (Acconensis), relating that he was told on behalf of the vice-master and the brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem (Jerosolimitanum) that they and their predecessors granted their tithes, castles, estates (villas), possessions, jurisdictions, and rights belonging to the Hospital to several regular and secular clerics and layfolk, to some of them perpetually, to some for a term (ad firmam), and to several for a long time, which greatly harmed the Hospital, involving oaths, penalties, letters and other public instruments, and even papal letters in common form. Thus the vice-master and brothers asked the pope the assist, so the pope orders the addressee, the above things notwithstanding, to recall to the Hospital's property and right the goods of the Hospital that he finds to have been alienated and taken away because of such concessions, forcing those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure, appeal put aside.
October 18. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot of Saint Samuel of Acre (Acconensis), relating that he was told on behalf of the vice-master and the brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem (Jerosolimitanum) that they and their predecessors granted their tithes, castles, estates (villas),... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:699, no. 2542; RRH 1193a
year: 1250
text: October 26. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the provost and chapter of Genoa, relating that, since he recently named the papal chamberlain N[iccolò Lercari], master of schools of the church of Genoa, as pastor (archbishop) of the church of Tyre, he orders the addressees to receive as canon and brother in Genoa N[iccolò Lercari]’s nephew Niccolò canon of Reims or his agent, assigning to him a prebend as soon as possible, notwithstanding various obstacles, including the fact that Niccolò is otherwise beneficed. The execution of the papal provision is entrusted to the provost of San Pietro della Porta in the diocese of Genoa with the faculty of using ecclesiastical censure if needed.
October 26. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the provost and chapter of Genoa, relating that, since he recently named the papal chamberlain N[iccolò Lercari], master of schools of the church of Genoa, as pastor (archbishop) of the church of Tyre, he orders the addressees to receive as canon and... more
sources: Guerello, Lettere di Innocenzo IV, pp. 91-92, no. 58; Ferretto, ‘I Genovesi in Oriente nel carteggio di Innocenzo IV’, pp. 362-63, no. XXXV