year: 1213
initiator: Simon Bufferius major
recipient: Simon Bufferius junior
text: Sept. 26. Genoa. Before the house of Jacharia de Castro. Simon Bufferius major confirms that he received from Simon Bufferius junior 15 librae and 15 solidi Januenses, in payment of the eighth [of revenue], which Simon junior neglected to receive and collect on his behalf from the court of the kingdom of Jerusalem [curia regis Syriae], in place of the fief [feudum] he ought to have been given by the said court. For the 15 librae and 15 solidi, Symon major promises to give Simo, junior, either personally or through a representative, 3 Saracen besants [saracinales de Syria] for every libra within the next 2 months, from the profits for the commune of Genoa [pro dacitis et avariis de communi Januae], after the ship [navis] called St Lucas reaches the Levant [ultra mare].
Sept. 26. Genoa. Before the house of Jacharia de Castro. Simon Bufferius major confirms that he received from Simon Bufferius junior 15 librae and 15 solidi Januenses, in payment of the eighth [of revenue], which Simon junior neglected to receive and collect on his behalf from the court of the... more
sources: Genoa. Notarial Archive of Raimundus Medicus, fol. 101. Text provided to Röhricht by Cornelio Desimoni (RRH no. 865)
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1709
year: 1215
initiator: Countess Blanche of Troyes
recipient: Rosceline de la Ferté with the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Febr. 1-28. Countess Blanche of Troyes confirms an agreement made by Rosceline de la Ferté with the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. If the Hospitallers of St John arrange for the release of her son Guiardus, who is a prisoner of the Sarraceni, and return him to Acre, she will give them a rent, drawn on her fief in Champagne.
Febr. 1-28. Countess Blanche of Troyes confirms an agreement made by Rosceline de la Ferté with the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. If the Hospitallers of St John arrange for the release of her son Guiardus, who is a prisoner of the Sarraceni, and return him to Acre, she will give them a rent,... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:171, no. 1434 (RRH no. 874a)
RRR: Eleemosynary grant
1713
year: 1215
initiator: Maccildis, widow of dominus Conradus advocatus de Swarcenberch
recipient: Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans
institution: Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans
text: Apr. 9. Maccildis, widow of dominus Conradus advocatus de Swarcenberch, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant, to benefit especially the soul of her dead husband, to the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans in Acre. She gives her house, which she and her husband bought from the daughter of the late comes Joscelinus. She also sells the land [attached to the house], for which frater Hermannus hospitalis magister and his brothers promise to deliver 400 marks of pure silver to her at Strasburg [Straceburch] within 15 days after Pentecost in the following year or, if they do not, to pay an annual rent of 40 marks until the sale price is settled. They assure her that she may continue to enjoy the revenues of the land during her lifetime. After her death it will pass fully to the Hospital. Witnesses: frater Ludovicus de Horflegove marescalcus; frater Drabodo de Utinge preceptor; frater Haymo de Falconeis; frater Hartungus de Sulmesse; frater Hunricus Gyr; frater Rodengerus de Fulcolfsem; frater Otto de Losenheum; frater Gunterus de Winrikesleve; dominus Vencardus de Carlesberch; Guillelmus dominici sepulcri prior, who confirms the deed with the seal of the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre.
Apr. 9. Maccildis, widow of dominus Conradus advocatus de Swarcenberch, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant, to benefit especially the soul of her dead husband, to the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans in Acre. She gives her house, which she and her husband bought from the daughter of the late comes... more
sources: Strehlke, Tabulae, p. 40, no. 48 (RRH no. 879)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1788
year: 1218
initiator: John of Brienne
recipient: Crusaders going to Egypt
text: *Apr. 26- May 24. Acre. King John of Jerusalem makes an agreement with the crusaders going to Egypt that he will not desert the expedition.
*Apr. 26- May 24. Acre. King John of Jerusalem makes an agreement with the crusaders going to Egypt that he will not desert the expedition.
sources: Oliver of Padeborn, ‘Historia Damiatina’, p. 250; Mayer, UKJ 3:1036-7, no. 636
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1846
year: 1220
initiator: Citizens of Lucca Ugerius, Magister Robertus and Henricus Capardus, together with the citizens of Bologna Fillocarus, Adrianus, Clarius and Bolognittus
text: Jun. 19. Damietta. Church of St Paul. In the presence of presbyter Jacomus de Castro Plumacio, Ugo Medicus de Lucca, Bonamicus notarius de Dacia, Gerardus Carenzus de Lucca and Petrobonus de Bononia, and with the consent of Ubaldus capitaneus et consul Luccensium and Rumonus eius socius, the citizens of Lucca Ugerius, Magister Robertus and Henricus Capardus, together with the citizens of Bologna Fillocarus, Adrianus, Clarius and Bolognittus, chosen by their capitanei and consiliori to reach agreement over the division of Damietta, come to agreement over the details of the apportionement between them of the section of the city assigned to the men of Bologna and Lucca, in relation to a house used by the household of the archbishop of Milan, and the portions allotted to the Cypriots and the Venetians. Ucherius, mag. Robertus and Henricus promise Fillocarus and dominus Adrianus that the Bolognese crusaders can be assured of their adherence and that they will abide by the decisions of their companion dominus Ardicio. The agreement is drawn up by Jacobus Ulgianus quondam Othonis imperatoris notarius.
Jun. 19. Damietta. Church of St Paul. In the presence of presbyter Jacomus de Castro Plumacio, Ugo Medicus de Lucca, Bonamicus notarius de Dacia, Gerardus Carenzus de Lucca and Petrobonus de Bononia, and with the consent of Ubaldus capitaneus et consul Luccensium and Rumonus eius socius, the... more
sources: Röhricht, Studien, pp. 70-2, no. 47
RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1876
year: 1221
initiator: Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate
recipient: Eustorgius Nicosiensis archiepiscopus
text: May 16. Damietta. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano confirms under seal for E. archiepiscopus Nicosiensis and his suffragans the agreement made between Queen Alice and the church of Cyprus in October 1220. He incorporates the text of that agreement in full.
May 16. Damietta. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano confirms under seal for E. archiepiscopus Nicosiensis and his suffragans the agreement made between Queen Alice and the church of Cyprus in October 1220. He incorporates the text of that agreement in full.
sources: Coureas and Schabel, The Cartulary, pp. 213-16, no. 82 (RRH no. 938)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1877
year: 1221
initiator: Dominus Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and his canons
recipient: Garinus de Monte Acuto, master of the Hospital of St John
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: May 1-31. Damietta. In the presence of Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, the dominus Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and his canons and frater Guarinus de Monte Acuto magister Hospitalis agree to end the disputes between the bishop and his canons and the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. (1) The bishop sought the payment of twentieths [half tithes] on 2 vineyards, one next to the town, the other a large vineyard that was planted by frater Americus de Pax beyond the garden belonging to St Mary of the Latins. An earlier charter of agreement had specified that twentieths should be paid to the bishop by the Hospitallers on the grain grown on land cultivated by them; and since payment had been paid to his predecessors of a twentieth of the grain crop on the greater vineyard that was now planted with vines, payment should be made on the wine. With respect to the other vineyard next to the city, the twentieth ought to be paid because although in the charter payment was to be made for grain, wine was not specifically excepted, and so ought to be included in the agreement. The magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John argued that they were not bound to pay twentieths on vineyards, first because grain and not wine was referred to in the charter and secondly because, although they were subject to canon law, they had the privilege of exemption from the payment of tithes. When, after being granted that privilege, an agreement was made to pay twentieths on grain, only grain was mentioned and no other produce, and payment now would seem to prejudice their rights. They were not bound to pay twentieths on the vineyard which is next to the town, because they were exempt by the charter from paying tithes on anything other than grain and grain had never been grown there. It had been a garden and tithes were not paid on gardens. (2) The bishop claimed a quarter of everything left intestate to the Hospital in the city of Acre, on the basis of a decretal of Pope Innocent [III]. The Hospitallers stated that their churches were immune from any episcopal yoke or service and enjoyed the fullest freedom and because of that immunity they were not bound to pay the quarter of intestate goods; and they were anyway protected by forty-year prescriptive right. (3) The bishop maintained that the brother chaplains and others ought not to visit his parishioners to confer the divine sacraments, unless the Hospital paid that quarter of intestate goods to the church of the Holy Cross, and he wanted to prohibit the brother chaplains and others in the city of Acre from preaching sermons in the churches of the Hospital. The Hospitallers replied that the churches of the Hospital ought to have the right to organize visitations and that the brother chaplains and others ought to hear confessions and take the body of Christ and go to the sick with a cross and enjoin penance on them in whatever parish of Acre they wanted, without seeking permission from the bishop of Acre, and to preach in Hospital’s churches and cemetery. The two parties now agreed the following. (1) The Hospitallers will pay the bishop of Acre the twentieths on the two vineyards, but will give nothing relating to the trees in the vineyards or to the fruit of the trees. Nothing will be paid from the produce of gardens, if those gardens are converted into vineyards, but payment ought to be made on uncultivated and deserted lands if vineyards are planted on them. (2) The bishop of Acre and the canons remit to the Hospitallers the quarter of intestate goods left to the churches of the Hospital in full and perpetual freedom. (3) The conventual prior of the Hospital and the other chaplains in the Hospital’s churches or cemetery can preach whenever they want to do so, but they cannot advertise their sermons on fixed days. They can visit the sick with cross and procession and hear their confessions in whatever parish they wish or in the house of the Hospital and bring them the Body of Christ and enjoin penance on them and provide those who choose burial with them with other sacraments. And since it is the office of the brothers of the Hospital to receive the bodies of the dead and the sick from the squares in the city and to bury the dead, they can bury them, unless they desire burial elsewhere, and they can transport the sick to their house whenever they wish to do so, unless the infirm themselves prohibit it. The gifts, alms, oblations, legacies and intestate goods received by the the Hospital, whether from those who choose, or do not choose, burial, and whether from pilgrims or parishioners, shall belong to the Hospital. When the brother chaplains and others of the Hospital and the chaplains of the bishop of Acre visit the sick they should advise them to make benefactions to the cathedral church of the Holy Cross and the house of the Hospital after their death, if they should so wish, before they are buried. The bishop of Acre will ordain the clerics presented to him by the conventual prior of the Hospital, as long as they have licence from their bishops and as long as the Order promises by letters patent, which the bishop will keep, that they will provide livelihood for these clerics in perpetuity. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and frater Guarinus de Monte Acuto Hospitalis magister confirm the agreement and affix their seals. Witnesses: of the canons of the church of Acre, Constancius decanus; Pelagius archydiaconus; Johannes precentor; Nicolaus thesaurarius, Anselmus; of the brothers of the Hospital of St John, frater Ferraudus de Barraz marescalcus; frater Golferius preceptor; frater Henricus hospitalarius; frater Poncius Boschant drapperius. [324]
May 1-31. Damietta. In the presence of Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, the dominus Jacobus Acconensis episcopus and his canons and frater Guarinus de Monte Acuto magister Hospitalis agree to end the disputes between the bishop and his canons and the magister and brothers of the... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:286-8, no. 1718 (RRH no. 945)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1920
year: 1222
initiator: Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate
recipient: Genoese and Pisans
text: Jun. 10. Tyre. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, records his judgement in a dispute between the Genoese and Pisans that had led to warfare throughout the city of Acre. He has inspected a previous agreement on the resolution of disputes within 8 days between the 3 communities of Venetians, Genoese and Pisans, according to which when 2 were involved, the third should mediate. He enjoined the balius Venetorum to do so, although the representatives of the Pisans argued that the previous agreement had been dissolved when warfare had broken out between them and the Genoese. When, moreover, Ugo Cancellarius had been appointed consul [of the Genoese] he had not taken an oath to abide by it. Having taken the advice of patriarcha Jerosolimitanus, archiepiscopus Tyrensis, Beetlemiensis episcopus, Valentinus episcopus, abbas Montis Syon, abbas Sancte Marie de valle Josaphat, abbas de Latina and many others, Pelagius ordered the archbishop of Tyre to announce that the balius Venetorum ought to acknowledge his role according to the sworn agreement of the 3 communities. The judgement is written by by Almerius sacri imperii notarius et iudex ordinarius.
Jun. 10. Tyre. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, records his judgement in a dispute between the Genoese and Pisans that had led to warfare throughout the city of Acre. He has inspected a previous agreement on the resolution of disputes within 8 days between the 3 communities of... more
sources: Bigoni, ‘Quattro documenti’, pp. 57-9, no. 1 (RRH no. 955)
RRR: Agreement/treaty
1930
year: 1222
initiator: Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate
recipient: Queen Alice of Cyprus, her son Henry, verus dominus et heres regni Cipri, his barones, milites and homines, and E. archiepiscopus Nicosiensis, M. Paphensis episcopus, R. Nimociensis episcopus and C. Famagustensis episcopus and their chapters
text: Sept. 14. Famagusta. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, makes a further sealed ruling on the agreement of 1-31 October 1220 that resolved discord between Queen Alice of Cyprus, her son Henry, verus dominus et heres regni Cipri, his barones, milites and homines, and E. archiepiscopus Nicosiensis, M. Paphensis episcopus, R. Nimociensis episcopus and C. Famagustensis episcopus and their chapters. More issues have arisen, which Pelagius on a visit to Cyprus, assisted in his mediation by the magistri of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers of St John, now resolves. The queen, barones, milites and homines of the kingdom of Cyprus will pay the prelates tithes on all their lands, animals and revenues, according to the customs of the kingdom of Jerusalem. The chevalia and dimi owed to the crown by the rustici of the prelates and their churches are remitted. All Greek priests and deacons are freed from the payment of chevagia or labour services [angariae], provided they profess obedience to the prelates in whose dioceses they reside, according to the form followed by Greek priests and levites in the kingdom of Jerusalem since the Latins ruled there. Greek priests and deacons should remain in the casalia and lands in which they reside at present. A Greek villanus can only be ordained with the agreement of his lord and if the prelates permit such an ordination, they must replace the villanus with another. Greek villani who leave the island to be ordained without their lords’ knowledge will be forcibly returned to villeinage should they return. Greek bishops who ordain without licence are to be suspended. Greek priests and deacons can move from one casale to another as long as they have permission and do not have children. Greek abbots should be elected canonically and confirmed by the Latin diocesan. They cannot be removed. They should profess obedience to the local diocesan according to the custom of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Greek churches and abbeys can enjoy their endowments and possessions. The number of monks in Greek monasteries has been limited and no one can replace a dead monk except from the district in which the monastery is situated. There should be 4 Greek bishops, obedient to the Roman church and the Latin prelates according to the customs of the kingdom of Jerusalem. They will reside in Sulam in the diocese of Nicosia, Archinum in the diocese of Paphos, Lefkara in the diocese of Limassol and Carpasium in the diocese of Famagusta.
Sept. 14. Famagusta. Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate, makes a further sealed ruling on the agreement of 1-31 October 1220 that resolved discord between Queen Alice of Cyprus, her son Henry, verus dominus et heres regni Cipri, his barones, milites and homines, and E. archiepiscopus... more
sources: Coureas and Schabel, The Cartulary, pp. 216-18, no. 83 (RRH no. 938)
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1996
year: 1225
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Archbishop of Caesarea and the bishops of Acre and Beirut
text: Jul. 23. Rieti. Pope Honorius III again admonishes the queen of Cyprus, her son H., his balius, the comestabulus, barones, milites and homines of Cyprus. The archbishop of Nicosia and his suffragans have petitioned the pope to ensure that the laity observe the agreement on tithes, possessions and other things that was mediated by Cardinal Pelagius of Albano, the papal legate. The pope demands that they do so. Since C. episcopus Amachistensis, who has been working on this matter at the curia for 4 years, is absent from Cyprus, the pope is writing to the archbishop of Caesarea and the bishops of Acre and Beirut to enforce the agreement.
Jul. 23. Rieti. Pope Honorius III again admonishes the queen of Cyprus, her son H., his balius, the comestabulus, barones, milites and homines of Cyprus. The archbishop of Nicosia and his suffragans have petitioned the pope to ensure that the laity observe the agreement on tithes, possessions and... more
sources: Schabel, Bullarium 1:270-1, no. c-62