RRR:
515
RRH:
269
Mayer:
180
YEAR:
1151
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT:
Leprosary of Saint Lazarus
text:
Dec. 25 1150 – Sept. 23 1151. Melisende, dei providentia Ierosolimorum regina, has ordered the demolition of a mill that was obstructing entrance to the gate of the Tower of David. To compensate the leprosary of St Lazarus, which owned the mill, she makes a sealed eleemosynary gift to St Lazarus of a 5 terre carruatae of vines on the plain of Bethlehem on condition that Georgius and Salomon, the cultivators of the vineyard, receive half the produce of their labour. Witnesses: Andreas militum Templi dapifer; Gilbertus de Lisuncort; Radulfus Strabo Ierusalem vicecomes; Nicholaus camerarius; Bencellinus.
INSTITUTION NUMBER:
328
Sources:
Mayer, UKJ 1:362-3, no. 180 (RRH no. 269)
GRANTOR:
Queen Melisende
RECEPIENT:
Leprosary of Saint Lazarus in Jerusalem

