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Correspondence/envoy
Request
1489
year: 1201
initiator: Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
recipient: Prior Anglie of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Dec. 24 1200 - early summer 1201. [270] The magister Hospitalis Jerusalem informs the prior Anglie of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem that the bishop of Acre, many pilgrims and many Hospitallers on their way to the West on the business of the Holy Land perished in a shipwreck off Biblium on the coast of Tripoli during the last passagium. Other ships carrying Hospitaller messengers from Acre were forced by storm damage to seek refuge in Tripoli. He reports that in the Muslim world the lord of Damascus, Sephadinus [al-‘Adil], has become master of Cairo [Babilon], expelling his nephew and others and is in a tense relationship with the sultan of Aleppo and many others. The Nile has failed to flood, leading to famine and the loss of livestock in Egypt, and a host of Egyptians have descended, like locusts, on the Holy Land. A young low-born Saracenus has been preaching an evangelical Christian campaign and has converted and baptized 2000. With the threat posed to the Latin East by the union of Damascus and Cairo, he appeals for help to the prior and to the king of England. He adds that in the invasion of Sicily by the Germans and Lombards the Hospitaller commandery [domus] of Barletta has been abandoned and that since the prior Anglie himself left the East no provisions have been received from the kingdom of Sicily, leading the Order to great expense in supplying its commanderies [domus] and castles. He needs money from the western Hospitaller communities. He asks for help to be sent on the next passagium in March. Dec. 24 1200 - early summer 1201. [270] The magister Hospitalis Jerusalem informs the prior Anglie of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem that the bishop of Acre, many pilgrims and many Hospitallers on their way to the West on the business of the Holy Land perished in a shipwreck off Biblium on... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:1-2, no. 1131 (RRH no. 787)
comments: [270] The letter refers to events in 1200: the death of the bishop of Acre in a shipwreck and the failure of the Nile to flood. If by ‘the next March passagium’ the master of the hospital was referring to the spring of 1202, the letter cannot have been sent later than the early summer of 1201.
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RRR:
Agreement/treaty
1495
year: 1201
initiator: Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
recipient: Philippe de Pleisset, master of the Knights Templar
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
2nd institution: Templars
text: *1201. [271] At the initiative of frère Geoffroy de Donjon, master of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and Philippe de Pleisset, master of the Knights Templar, and of the leading brothers in both Orders, the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar come to an agreement. The only public oven in Valanie will belong to the Templars, but the bishop and the Hospitallers can have ovens for their private use. *1201. [271] At the initiative of frère Geoffroy de Donjon, master of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and Philippe de Pleisset, master of the Knights Templar, and of the leading brothers in both Orders, the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar come to an agreement. The... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:4, no. 1134 (RRH no. 787a)
comments: [271] Given the irregularity of dating conventions in Antioch it is not possible to date this more accurately.
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Correspondence/envoy
1508
year: 1202
initiator: Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
recipient: King Sancho VII of Navarre
text: Jun. 1-30. Frater Gaufridus, domus Hospitalis Ierusalem humilis magister et Christi pauperum servus, describes for King Sancho VII of Navarre an earthquake that caused massive destruction on 20 May. The towers, royal palace and walls of Acre were partly demolished, and countless houses are in ruins. The walls, towers, churches and houses in Tyre are so wrecked that they are unlikely to be restored in present lifetimes. There have been countless deaths. The walls and houses of Tripoli are damaged. The towers, walls, houses and fortifications of Archay are overturned and the place is not habitable. The Hospitaller castles [castra] of Cratum and Margatum need restoration. Antioch and parts of Armenia have not been so badly affected, but there has also been a disease spreading among animals and the crops have been ruined by the weather. Jun. 1-30. Frater Gaufridus, domus Hospitalis Ierusalem humilis magister et Christi pauperum servus, describes for King Sancho VII of Navarre an earthquake that caused massive destruction on 20 May. The towers, royal palace and walls of Acre were partly demolished, and countless houses are in... more
sources: Mayer, ‘Two unpublished letters’, pp. 306-8 (RRH no. 789)
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