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RRR:
1525
year: 1203
initiator: Bernardus de Moruel
recipient: Knights Templar
institution: Templars
text: 1203. [277] Antioch. Bernardus de Moruel, who has come to Antioch in the service of Christianity, has fallen ill and is fearing death, has asked to be buried by the Knights Templar and makes an eleemosynary grant to them. He gives the Templars, who are represented by frater de Raiace magnus preceptor domus Antiochie, an annual rent of wheat in France, to be taken from his mills. He asks his brothers Alelmus and Hugo to present this charter, sealed with their seals and that of the bishop of Amiens, to his wife Maria as evidence. Witnesses: of the Knights Templar, frater Gerardus de Broes; frater Willelmus Fulcardi; frater Petrus de Vares; frater Ernaudus Salomonis; of the Hospitallers of St John, frater Petrus preceptor domus Hospitalis Antiochie; frater Benedictus capellanus; Stephanus de Portico; Henricus de Arenis; Gaufridus de BelIomonte; Renaudus de Ponz; Hugo de Reme; Fulco de Warviler consanguineus ejus. 1203. [277] Antioch. Bernardus de Moruel, who has come to Antioch in the service of Christianity, has fallen ill and is fearing death, has asked to be buried by the Knights Templar and makes an eleemosynary grant to them. He gives the Templars, who are represented by frater de Raiace magnus... more
sources: Truden des Ormes, ‘Etude’, pp. 367-8, no. 63 (RRH no. 792a)
comments: [277] Given the irregularity of dating conventions in Antioch it is not possible to date this more accurately.
RRR:
1944
year: 1223
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: European rulers
text: c.Apr. 27. Lateran. In a letter addressed to European rulers and others, Pope Honorius III reports on a meeting between himself, the emperor Frederick II, the patriarch of Jerusalem, King John of Jerusalem, the bishop of Bethlehem, the magistri of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, and the preceptor of the Knights Templar, at which the emperor committed himself to the journey to the Holy Land within 2 years and, at the instigation of the patriarch of Jerusalem and others from the East, promised to marry King John’s daughter. c.Apr. 27. Lateran. In a letter addressed to European rulers and others, Pope Honorius III reports on a meeting between himself, the emperor Frederick II, the patriarch of Jerusalem, King John of Jerusalem, the bishop of Bethlehem, the magistri of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and the... more
sources: Rodenberg, Epistolae 1:152-5, no. 225
RRR:
2742
year: 1249
text: June 23. In Castris Jamas, Egypt. Robertus count of Artois (comes Attrabatensis) informs his mother Queen Blanche of France that King Louis, the queen and her sister are in good health, but that his brother the count of Anjou (comes Andegavensis) has mild quartan fever. He describes the passage from the port of Limassol (Linocium) in Cyprus to Damietta; the council-of-war in the king’s ship (navis) that decided on landing the following day, in spite of defenders, a large army of Turks (Turci) and armed galleys (galeae); the transfer of the army from the large ships (magnae naves) into the galleys and smaller vessels (galeae et minuti vexilli); the landing, accompanied by the legate carrying a relic of the True Cross, and the battle that followed; the retreat of the Muslims (Turks and Saracens; Turci, Sarraceni) and their subsequent withdrawal from Damietta, which was taken [on 6 June]. The city is well provisioned and the king, whose goods were unloaded from his ships, intends to stay until the Nile flood is over, remembering the disastrous effect the flood had (on the Fifth Crusade). He will then occupy the land. Robertus also reports the birth in Cyprus of a son to the countess of Anjou (Comitissa Andegavensis). June 23. In Castris Jamas, Egypt. Robertus count of Artois (comes Attrabatensis) informs his mother Queen Blanche of France that King Louis, the queen and her sister are in good health, but that his brother the count of Anjou (comes Andegavensis) has mild quartan fever. He describes the passage... more
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:152-54, no. 80. English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, pp. 84-85

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