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Eleemosynary grant
499
year: 1149
initiator: Queen Melisende
recipient: Chruch of saint John the Baptist of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Dec. 25 – 31. Melisende, dei providentia Ierosolimorum regina, with the agreement of her sons Baldwin rex and Amalricus, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant to the church of St John the Baptist of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. She gives the casale of Beroeht and its agricolae, as it was at the time of the siege of Antioch. She makes this gift to augment the refreshment [refectio] of the poor, to ensure that while she lives her gift will be remembered with a feast for the poor and those who serve them at Easter, and that the day of her death be commemorated each year during Eastertide. Witnesses: Balduinus Cesareensis archiepiscopus; Robertus Nazarenus archiepiscopus; Gaufridus abbas Dominici Templi; Barisanus; ejusdem fili[us] Hugo; Manasses constabiliarius; Rohardus de Ierusalem; Hanfredus de Turone; Galterius Maledoctus; Guido Gallicus; Robertus de Franlos; A. vicecomes de Neapoli; et filius ejus. The charter was drawn up by Fredericus capellanus fratribus Hospitalis. Dec. 25 – 31. Melisende, dei providentia Ierosolimorum regina, with the agreement of her sons Baldwin rex and Amalricus, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant to the church of St John the Baptist of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. She gives the casale of Beroeht and its agricolae, as it was at... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:355-7, 407, nos. 177, 220; 2:504, no. 275 (RRH no. 262)
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RRR:
Grant
634
year: 1159
initiator: Queen Melisende
recipient: Royal Hospital of Saint John the Baptist in Nablus
text: *Dec. 25 1158 - Dec. 24 1159. Melisende, regina Jherusalem, with the agreement of her son King Baldwin III, gives the royal Hospital of St John in Nablus, founded by King Baldwin II, a rent of 3 quintalia/quintaux [of sugar?] and 300 litrae of oil each year, drawn from houses in Nablus. *Dec. 25 1158 - Dec. 24 1159. Melisende, regina Jherusalem, with the agreement of her son King Baldwin III, gives the royal Hospital of St John in Nablus, founded by King Baldwin II, a rent of 3 quintalia/quintaux [of sugar?] and 300 litrae of oil each year, drawn from houses in Nablus.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:384-5, 460, nos. 202, 252 (RRH no. 339a)
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