RRR: Correspondence/envoy
22
year: 1100
initiator: Patriarch Daibert of Jerusalem
recipient: Henricus Castellanus episcopus and Johannes Michael
text: *Early Feb. [Jerusalem]. Patriarch [Daibert] of Jerusalem [together with Godfrey of Bouillon, Raymond of St Gilles and Bohemond of Taranto] replies to Henricus Castellanus episcopus and Johannes Michael.
*Early Feb. [Jerusalem]. Patriarch [Daibert] of Jerusalem [together with Godfrey of Bouillon, Raymond of St Gilles and Bohemond of Taranto] replies to Henricus Castellanus episcopus and Johannes Michael.
sources: Monachus anonymi Littorensis, p. 257. See Riant, ‘Inventaire critique’, p. 210, no. 152 (RRH no. 30)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
28
year: 1100
initiator: Patriarch Daibert of Jerusalem
recipient: Catholic churchmen and laymen in the German region
text: May or Jun. Daibert, patriarch of Jerusalem and S. Sepulcri adiutorum servus, sends Brother Arnulfus to appeal for assistance from all Catholic churchmen and laymen in the German region. He reports that many crusaders have returned home after the capture of Jerusalem. Others, who stayed until Easter, have left in Pisan and English ships. Mercenaries, who have to be very well rewarded, are defending Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Tiberias, Samaria, the castle of Hebron, Ramla, beati martyris Georgii sacratae, and other fortified places until financial help comes from Germans and Latins.
May or Jun. Daibert, patriarch of Jerusalem and S. Sepulcri adiutorum servus, sends Brother Arnulfus to appeal for assistance from all Catholic churchmen and laymen in the German region. He reports that many crusaders have returned home after the capture of Jerusalem. Others, who stayed until... more
sources: Hagenmeyer, Die Kreuzzugsbriefe, pp. 176-7, no. 21, corr. Kedar, ‘Ein Hilferuf aus Jerusalem vom September 1187’, pp. 113-14 (RRH no. 30a)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
49
year: 1100
initiator: Patriarch Daibert of Jerusalem
recipient: Bohemond of Taranto
text: *End of Jul. Jerusalem. Patriarch Daibert of Jerusalem, with the agreement of Tancred Marchisius sends his secretarius called Morellus to Bohemond of Taranto to inform him of the gifts made by Godfrey of Bouillon to the Church of Jerusalem and himself; of Godfrey’s subsequent death; of the seizure of the Tower of David by Count Garnerius and of a message sent to Baldwin of Boulogne, count of Edessa; of the death of Garnerius and the continued occupation of the Tower of David on Baldwin’s behalf. He appeals to Bohemond, as a supporter of Church reform, to write to Baldwin forbidding him to come to Jerusalem without Daibert’s agreement; to hinder him by force if need be; and to reply speedily.
*End of Jul. Jerusalem. Patriarch Daibert of Jerusalem, with the agreement of Tancred Marchisius sends his secretarius called Morellus to Bohemond of Taranto to inform him of the gifts made by Godfrey of Bouillon to the Church of Jerusalem and himself; of Godfrey’s subsequent death; of the seizure... more
sources: William of Tyre, pp. 456-8; Albert of Aachen, p. 522 (RRH no. 32)