RRR:
39
Mayer:
16
Other:
William of Tyre, p. 431
YEAR:
1100
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT:
Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
text:
*Jul. 22 1099 – Jul. 18 1100. Godfrey of Bouillon settles monks in the abbey of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Transaction Type :
INSTITUTION NUMBER:
337
Sources:
William of Tyre, p. 431. See Mayer, UKJ 1:117-18, no. 16 [5]
Comments:
[5] Mayer (UKJ 1:117-18 and in Bistümer, pp. 258-87) has argued at length against any endowment by Godfrey and the establishment by him of a Benedictine community in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There are reasons – particularly Patriarch Arnulf’s charter of Apr. 6 – Dec. 24 1112 – for questioning the foundation of the Benedictine abbey at such an early date, but the prestigious nature of the shrine and the burial of Garnier of Grez in late July in valle Iosaphat, in porticu basilice sancte Marie virginis et matris Iesu Christi (Albert of Aachen, p. 516) suggests that there was some monastic presence on the site during Godfrey’s lifetime. See Pringle, The Churches 3:288-9.
GRANTOR:
Godfrey of Bouillon
RECEPIENT:
Church of Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
