year: 1108
initiator: Emperor Alexius
recipient: Bohemond of Taranto
text: *September. Devol. Bohemond of Taranto agrees to become a vassal of the Byzantine empire for Antioch, which he will hold of the Emperor Alexius and his son John as a liegeman [ἀνθρωπος λίζιος] with the title of dux. The possessions granted to him are specified: the city of Antioch; Port St Simeon; Dux; Kaukas; Lulon; Thaumaston Oros; Phersia; the military district of St Elias; Baghras; the military district of Larissa [Shaizar]; the military districts of Artah and Telouch; Marash and the Amanus Mountains, Palatza and the theme of Zume. Bohemond is given licence to expand eastwards to Aleppo and into Cappadocia and Mesopotamia, including Edessa and the themes of Limnioi and Aetos. The territories occupied by the Armenians in Cilicia are excluded and Bohemond will surrender all claims to Latakia, Gibel, Valenia, Maraclea and Tortosa and will allow the appointment of a Greek patriarch of Antioch
*September. Devol. Bohemond of Taranto agrees to become a vassal of the Byzantine empire for Antioch, which he will hold of the Emperor Alexius and his son John as a liegeman [ἀνθρωπος λίζιος] with the title of dux. The possessions granted to him are specified: the city of Antioch; Port St Simeon;... more
sources: Anna Comnena 1:412-22
RRR: Eleemosynary grant
246
year: 1126
initiator: Pons, count of Tripoli, and his wife Sicilia
recipient: House on Mont Pèlerin of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Dec. 28. Jerusalem. Pons, gratia dei comes Tripolis, and his wife Sicilia, daughter of the king of France, with the agreement of their son Raymond, make an eleemosynary grant to the house on Mont Pèlerin of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Confirming everything the Hospital has in the county, they refer specifically to: the villae given by Raymond I and confirmed by Pons’s father Bertrand; the besants that Count William had levied on the cattle [bubus] of the Suriani working in the villae; lands beyond the bridge at Mont Pèlerin given by Raymond I and Bertrand; a magnificent house [domum optimam] by the sea in the port of Tripoli; a field [campus] before the city of Tripoli; freedom from teloneum in the port of Tripoli and in the platea, so that the men of the Hospital can buy and sell without exaction; villae, lands and houses given by Raymond I and Bertrand in the city of Rafania and its territory, so that a hospital for the poor [hospicium pauperum], which is now in the hands of Galterius, could be built there; everything given to the Hospital in the city of Tortosa and its territory, whether at lo Camel or elsewhere. Pons gives permission to all men who hold lands of him to give the Hospital 1 villanus each. Signatories: Pontius comes; Cecilia, uxor ejus, regis Francorum filia; Pontius de Fos; Giraldus de Uxello; Pontius Umberti; Bertrandus vicecomes; Willelmus de S. Justo; Willelmus Fabri; Girardus de Insula; Petrus Amalrici; Pontius S. Pauli archidiaconus et comitis cancellarius, who had the charter written.
Dec. 28. Jerusalem. Pons, gratia dei comes Tripolis, and his wife Sicilia, daughter of the king of France, with the agreement of their son Raymond, make an eleemosynary grant to the house on Mont Pèlerin of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Confirming everything the Hospital has in the county,... more
sources: Delaville le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:74-5, no. 79 (RRH no. 108)
year: 1136
initiator: Petrus Bernardi, canon of the Holy Sepulchre
recipient: Andreas and his wife Hosanna
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Nov. 16. Petrus Bernardi, a canon of the Holy Sepulchre, with the consent of Petrus prior and his fellow canons, permits Andreas and his wife Hosanna to build a house on land belonging to the Holy Sepulchre in that part of the city of Jerusalem which is under royal jurisdiction. The land adjoins a house belonging to the Holy Sepulchre, a house of the Hospital of St John which used to be owned by Garsia, and a house which belonged to Robertus Galatinae. Andreas and Hosanna must pay a rent [redditus] of 2 besants a year to the Holy Sepulchre. If either Andreas or Hosanna should die, the surviving spouse can continue to live in the house while paying the same rent. After the death of both the house will pass to the Holy Sepulchre. The canons also allow Andreas and Hosanna to draw water for their needs from the canons’ cistern which is at the foot of the steps [ad pedes gradus]. Witnesses: Holdredus judex; Albertus de Virduno; Ricardus; Rogerius, magister clientium Sancti Sepulchri; Arnuldus sellarius; Petrus Porcellus; Habert de Falcomberga; Bernardus Riquitie. The charter was written by Johannes Pisanus, who was teaching the young clerics [clericuli] at the Holy Sepulchre.
Nov. 16. Petrus Bernardi, a canon of the Holy Sepulchre, with the consent of Petrus prior and his fellow canons, permits Andreas and his wife Hosanna to build a house on land belonging to the Holy Sepulchre in that part of the city of Jerusalem which is under royal jurisdiction. The land adjoins a... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 222-3, no. 103 (RRH no. 166)
year: 1137
initiator: Patriarch William of Jerusalem
recipient: Galterius de Lucia
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Jul. 12. Patriarch William of Jerusalem, with the agreement of the community [conventus] at the Holy Sepulchre, licences under seal Galterus de Lucia to sell his house to Robertus Medicus and his sons and daughters for 80 besants. Galterus de Lucia built this house on land at the western corner of the lacus Balneorum, extending [vergens] to the north. Because the house’s foundations are so unstable that it cannot be heightened, Patriarch William, with the agreement of the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre, permits Robertus Medicus to construct a vault over the road that runs between the house and the patriarch’s square [campus] and to build on it. He also pledges [in vadimonium] to Robertus some wasteland at the corner of the house so that the house can be extended. Robertus will pay the patriarchal curia 1 besant a year on 15 July [in festivitate Ierusalem] for the house and the additional land. Witnesses: from the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre, Petrus prior; Robertus archidiaconus; Petrus Barcinonensis; Osbertus Ioppensis; Radulphus Parisiensis; Willelmus Normannus; Lambertus de Sancto Lazaro; Garnerius; Godefridus; Robertus de Accon; Moyses; Bartholomeus; Giraldus; Dionisiovs; Brocardus; Willelmus and others; from the patriarchal curia, Everhardus; Humbertus; Amelius; Iohannes; Milo; Ernaldus; Stephanus and others. [49]
Jul. 12. Patriarch William of Jerusalem, with the agreement of the community [conventus] at the Holy Sepulchre, licences under seal Galterus de Lucia to sell his house to Robertus Medicus and his sons and daughters for 80 besants. Galterus de Lucia built this house on land at the western corner of... more
sources: Mayer, Von der Cour des Bourgeois, pp. 234-8, no. 6 (RRH no. 170)
RRR: Permission/licence/authorization
372
year: 1138
initiator: Johannes, bishop of Acre
recipient: Petrus Dominici Sepulcri prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Before Sept. 24. At the request of Petrus ęcclesię Dominicę Resurrectionis prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Johannes Achon episcopus gives them permission, which he seals, to build a church in honour of the Holy Sepulchre on land in the city of Acre given them by Lambertus Hals. He adds the gift of another church in a casale called Amimas, 3 miliarii distant from Acre, although he retains episcopal rights over it. Witnesses: Adam Acconensis archidiaconus; Marinus presbiter; Nicholaus presbiter; Johannes Pictaviensis presbiter; Robertus presbiter; Gozelinus canonicus; Jonathas canonic; Dodo presbiter; Iterius presbiter; Petrus diaconus; Stephanus; Leo; Johannes de Brundusio/Brudusio; Willelmus Capperuns /Capperons; Balduinus Jhierosolymitani patriarchᶒ cancellarius and many others.
Before Sept. 24. At the request of Petrus ęcclesię Dominicę Resurrectionis prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Johannes Achon episcopus gives them permission, which he seals, to build a church in honour of the Holy Sepulchre on land in the city of Acre given them by Lambertus Hals. He adds... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 152-3, no. 60. See Mayer, UKJ 1:324 (RRH no. 180)
year: 1160
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Rainaldus Falconarius
text: Mar. 16. During the siege of Blahasent/Belhasam [Qal‘at Abu’l-Hassan]. Baldwin, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Iherusalem Latinorum rex, with the agreement of his wife Theodora Iherosolimorum regina and his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, confirms under seal an agreement with Rainaldus Falconarius. Rainaldus allows the king to create as many canals as he likes to draw off water from the River of Acre, called Belus, to irrigate his sugar cane plantations. In return the king will give Rainaldus one fifth of the profits from the sale of sugar, after expenses have been deducted. The king permits Rainaldus to exact the same dues [talis exactio et talis consuetudo] from all mills inside and outside Acre as he took formerly from his mills on the River Belus. He promises Rainaldus and his wife domina Luciana, that his heirs will have the same rights. Witnesses: Humfredus de Torono constabularius; Galterius dominus Tiberiadensis; Philippus Neapolitanus; Hugo Cesariensis dominus; Gormundus Tiberiadensis; Guido Francigena; Henricus Bubalus; Rohardus Neapolitanus. The charter was drawn up by Stefanus, acting on behalf of dominus Radulfus Bethleemite episcopus regisque cancellarius.
Mar. 16. During the siege of Blahasent/Belhasam [Qal‘at Abu’l-Hassan]. Baldwin, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Iherusalem Latinorum rex, with the agreement of his wife Theodora Iherosolimorum regina and his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, confirms under seal an agreement with Rainaldus... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:462-4, 497, nos. 254, 269; 2:528, no. 300 (RRH no. 344)
RRR: Privilege/exemption
699
year: 1163
initiator: Baldwin III
recipient: Bohali son of Hebenecstin mercator
text: June 7 1156 - Feb. 10 1163. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Ierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, grants Bohali filius Hebenecstin mercator and the other merchants carried in his ship [navis] licence and safeconduct in trading with the goods between Tyre and Egypt. If any of [the king’s] homines, galeator or other....
June 7 1156 - Feb. 10 1163. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Ierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, grants Bohali filius Hebenecstin mercator and the other merchants carried in his ship [navis] licence and safeconduct in trading with the goods between Tyre and Egypt. If any of [the king’s] homines,... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:492-4, no. 268 (RRH no. 598a)
year: 1166
initiator: Hugo, Cesaree Palestine dominus
recipient: Petrus prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Sept. 1 - Dec. 24. Hugo Cesaree Palestine dominus, with the agreement of his wife Ysabel and the advice of his probi homines, makes a sealed grant to Petrus prior and the Latin canons of the Holy Sepulchre. He gives them the mountain next to the garden of Feissa, where rise the waters that feed the aqueduct. The land stretches from the road that comes from Braicaet towards the Casale Sancti Sepulcri, eastwards, by way of the cavea which is between two hills and the river bed [torrens] that flows in winter, to a small hill situated between the said mountain and the mountain of Broiquet; and from the bed of the river bed towards the aforesaid small hill along the side [per crepidinem] of the small hill, as designated by crosses, towards a hillock [monticulum], called the lime kiln [calcis fornax], and then to the south to another hillock, which is not far away, which was the old lime kiln [calcis fornax], extending along the side of the hill in a straight line to a wall [spina] on the plain, which divides the casale of Faisse, belonging to the Holy Sepulchre, from the casale of Sabarim, belonging to the Hospital. The boundaries were drawn by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre with Georgius and his son Balduinus. Hugo retains the right to repair the old aqueduct and the spring that feeds it, in order to convey water to his sugar cane plantation at Casale Bubalorum. In return for this he will provide the canons with half a quintala [of sugar] each year from a sugar cane press [macera], and if there is a surfeit [amplius] he will provide a whole quintala. He can construct another aqueduct and dig another spring to lead water to the aforesaid casale. Hugo also confirms the gift made by his grandfather Eustachius Granerii and his father Galterius, with the boundaries that were established. He adds the privilege that the canons can sell or buy, weigh and measure and transport by land or sea without any payment of usaticum or exactio throughout his land, within and outside the city of Caesarea. The canons give Hugo 400 besants in return for the gift and confirmation. Witnesses: Rainerius episcopus Sebasten[sis]; Radulfus prepositus; Johannes cantor Cesariensis; Symon canonicus; Arnulfus subprior; Petrus Lombardus; frater Adam; frater Vitalis; Petrus de Mahumeria; Petrus Costa vicecomes; Engilbertus de Aria; Carolus; Hamelinus; Rodbertus de Cossia; Georgius; Balduinus filius ejus.
Sept. 1 - Dec. 24. Hugo Cesaree Palestine dominus, with the agreement of his wife Ysabel and the advice of his probi homines, makes a sealed grant to Petrus prior and the Latin canons of the Holy Sepulchre. He gives them the mountain next to the garden of Feissa, where rise the waters that feed the... more
sources: Bresc-Bautier, Cart St-Sépulcre, pp. 271-2, no. 139 (RRH no. 425)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
858
year: 1170
initiator: Willelmus Acconensis episcopus
recipient: Abbey of Cluny
text: Dec. 25 1169 - Sept. 23 1170. Acre. At the request of Abbot Stephen and the monks of Cluny, and in the presence of Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem and King Amalric, and with the consent of the chapter of the church of Acre, Willelmus Acconensis episcopus grants the abbey of Cluny, represented by Theobaldus a monk of Cluny and prior of St-Arnoul-de-Crépy-en-Valois, licence to build a cloister and church in a place and parish designated by the bishop, and the right to receive endowments, saving the privileges of the church of Acre. He confirms the abbey’s right to receive the excommunicate, to ignore interdicts and its freedom from episcopal taxation, but they must answer summons to advise the bishop and must observe parochial rights. Witnesses, in addition to the patriarch and the king: C. Cae-sariensis archiepiscopus; L. Nazarenus archiepiscopus; R. Bethleemita episcopus; B. Liddensis episcopus; R. Tiberiadensis episcopus; R. Ebronensis episcopus; and many others.
Dec. 25 1169 - Sept. 23 1170. Acre. At the request of Abbot Stephen and the monks of Cluny, and in the presence of Patriarch Amalric of Jerusalem and King Amalric, and with the consent of the chapter of the church of Acre, Willelmus Acconensis episcopus grants the abbey of Cluny, represented by... more
sources: Marrier, Bibliotheca Cluniacensis, cols. 1431-2; Mayer, UKJ 2:599-600, no. 344 (RRH no. 476)
year: 1171
initiator: Bohemond III, prince of Antioch
recipient: Commune of Pisa
text: Mar. 8/27 1170 - Mar. 7/26 1171. [125] Bohemond III, the son of Prince Raymond, Dei gratia princeps Antiochenus, with the agreement of his wife domina Orgollosa principissa, confirms under seal for the church of St Mary, the archbishop, consuls, senators and members of the commune of Pisa and its province residing in his principality land to build a house in the port of Latakia. This land extends below the church of St Elyas, before the house of the Templars [domus Templi] and the house of magister Ugo, as far as the sea, and along the seashore as far as a tannery [taneria] and the old wall, and in the upper part as far as the ditch. If the Pisans by the judgement of court [iudicium curie] can recover the land in the port occupied by Hugo Embriacus, the son of Willelmus, the land now given will revert to the prince. Bohemond gives in addition a house in the city of Antioch that belonged to dominus Odo de Tyro. He assures the Pisans of the security of their persons and goods in case of shipwreck and of the property of those who should die, except when they are intestate. He remits half of all taxes [medietas totius iuris] customarily paid on entry and departure, coming and returning, buying and selling, throughout his territory and he assures them of his protection. Disputes between them can be settled in their own court [curia], but if a case cannot be decided, or involves theft, predation, homicide or the subjects of Antioch, it will decided in the prince’s court. Witnesses: Guiscardus de Insula vicecomestabulus; Rogerius de Surdavalle; Willelmus de Lobjs; Guafridus de Dor-dan; Iohannes de Salgin; Guiscardus de Nazareht; Henricus de Loges. The charter was drawn up by Bernardus cancellarius.
Mar. 8/27 1170 - Mar. 7/26 1171. [125] Bohemond III, the son of Prince Raymond, Dei gratia princeps Antiochenus, with the agreement of his wife domina Orgollosa principissa, confirms under seal for the church of St Mary, the archbishop, consuls, senators and members of the commune of Pisa and its... more
sources: Müller, Documenti, pp. 15-16, no. 13. (RRH no. 478)