RRR:
592
RRH:
321
Mayer:
190, 241, 290
YEAR:
1156
text:
Jun. 7. Acre. Baldwin, per gratiam dei in sancta Hierusalem Latinorum rex quartus, with the advice and consent of Queen Melisende and his brother Amalricus comes Ascalonitanus, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant for the benefit of the souls of the kings his predecessors and himself, confirming for his [Royal] Hospital of St John the Baptist at Nablus and the brothers serving God and the poor the gifts made up to the present by his predecessors: the casale called Letaria, given by King Baldwin II; 100 cantaria of grapes [racemi] and a vineyard near Nablus, given by King Baldwin II, which by a grant of King Fulk would be transported by royal officials [regii bailiti] to the Hospital’s winepress [torcular]; all the goods of any pilgrim who should die intestate [on the road] between Castellum Beleismum and Lubanum or between the stone, which marks the boundaries of the lands of Cacho and [terra] Maluarum, and Lubanum. Witnesses: Fredericus episcopus Achonensis; Hermannus archidiaconus Achonensis; Humfredus constabularius; Guido Berythensis; Girardus Sydoniensis; Balduinus de Insula; Odo de Sancto Amando marescalcus; Guillelmus de Barra; Herbertus; Galuanus de Rochia camerarius. The charter was drawn up by Radulfus in Bethleem electus regisque cancellarius.
Sources:
Mayer, UKJ 1:373-4, 443-5, nos. 190, 241; 2:518, no. 290 (RRH no. 321)
GRANTOR:
Baldwin III
RECEPIENT:
Royal hospital of Saint John the Baptist in Nablus

