RRR:
1194
RRH:
652a
Other:
Hiestand, PTJ 2:295-6, no. 91
YEAR:
1186
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT:
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text:
*Oct. 17. [doubtful] [201] In the presence of Patriarch R. of Jerusalem and with the assistance of Monge archeveque de Cesarée and the bishops of Nazareth and Ramla [Rames], Guillaume archeveque de Tyr and Odo eveque de Baruth, commmissaires [judge delegates] appointed by Pope Urban III to decide on disputes between Ansterius eveque de Valenie and Roger, master of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem, order that judgement by delegated to 4 knights [chevaliers/gentilshommes] of the town [ville] of Margat. Their arbitration is dated to the first year of the reign of King Guy of Jerusalem.
INSTITUTION NUMBER:
322
Delaville Le Roulx vol. 2:
Sources:
Hiestand, PTJ 2:295-6, no. 91 (RRH no. 652a)
Comments:
[201] The judgement, surviving only in inventories of the 16th and 18th centuries, has attracted some discussion. See for example Hiestand, PTJ 2 :295; Hamilton, The Latin Church, p. 81; Kedar, ‘The Patriarch Eracles’, p. 181; Edbury and Rowe, William of Tyre, p. 22 n. 33. So many questions arise that I am inclined to believe that it is, at least, very corrupted. William of Tyre probably died in 1184. The Hospitallers did not acquire Margat until – at the very earliest - late 1186. Why was a judgement relating to a diocese in the patriarchate of Antioch decided by judge delegates from the patriarchate of Jerusalem, in the presence of the patriarch of Jerusalem and dated by the regnal year of the king of Jerusalem?
GRANTOR:
Willelmus Tyrensis archiepiscopus and Udo Belitensis episcopus
RECEPIENT:
Ansterius eveque de Valenie and Roger de Moulins, master of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem
