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RRR: 2766
year: 1250
text: April 20. Corbeil. Phelippes, chaplain of Alfonz, count of Toulouse and Poitiers and maquis of Provence (comte de Tholose et de Poitiers et marquis de Provence), acknowledges the reception on 21 February of a letter from Alfonz, enclosed with letters from the king, in which Alfonz described his experiences on Cyprus and his delayed arrival at Damietta. Phelippes informs Alfonz of the reception in France of the news of the capture of Damietta, of the condition of the possessions of Alfonz and of events in France and elsewhere in western Europe.
sources: Saint-Bris, ‘Lettre’, pp. 394-403. Partial English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, pp. 93-95
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RRR: 2767
year: 1250
text: *April 21. Genoa. Corrado [Fieschi] son of the late Musso of the counts of Lavagna, canon of the church of Santo Donato in Genoa, and nephew of Gugliemo, provost of Genoa cathedral, names as his procurator agent Guglielmo Guercio to take possession of his canonry in the church of Beirut that Pope Innocent IV granted him in a letter to the archbishop of Tyre.
sources: Ferretto, ‘I Genovesi in Oriente nel carteggio di Innocenzo IV’, p. 361, no. XXX
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RRR: 2768
year: 1250
text: May 3. Acre. Inventory of the possessions of the Genoese commune inside and outside the city of Acre, carried out with the use of witnesses on the orders of Simon Malocellus and Ogerius Ricius, consules Ianuensium in Syria ac vicecomites pro comuni. I. IN THE CITY OF ACRE. A garden, consisting of 2 carruche partly surrounded by a wall, adjoining on one side the sea, at the back the wall of the darsana built by the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, on the other side St Nicholas [and] the land and buildings of the said Hospital of St John, and on 2 sides the land and houses of the Hungarians. II. OUTSIDE THE CITY OF ACRE. 2 lands on the plain (in plano) [of Acre], belonging to the commune, one of which is situated at a locus called Dochum and is designated by 16 markers (terminis sexdecim terminata), on which are written these letters: IANUA. Another land belonging to the commune on the plain [of Acre], situated in a locus called Cochetum, designated by 11 markers. The rents and other possessions of the commune of Genoa, have been listed in a charter drawn up by the consul and a companion, in relation to the possessions and rents that the commune of Genoa has on this side of the sea (14 July 1249). Witnesses and inquisitores: Iohannes Detessalve; Benvenutus Toxicus; Ogerius de Castello placearius comunis; and many others. The inventory was drawn up at the orders of the consuls by Solimanus de Murtedo sacri palacii notarius.
sources: Desimoni, ‘Quatre titres’, pp. 222-24, no. 3; RRH 1187 & 1188
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RRR: 2769
year: 1250
text: May 4. Garssie Alvarez, lord of Haifa (Cayphas), with the consent of his wife Heluis lady of Haifa (Cayphas) grants in perpetual alms to abbot Gauvain and the church of Monte Thabour the land below the old vines of house of S. Helies dou Carme, extending to the vineyard of Agis, and thence to the ‘cave’ of the Templars and on the road below the cistern that leads to S. Marguerite dou Carme; the road should remain free for coming and going. Sealed with his lead seal and witnessed by his homes: Guillaume Carcar, Balian Antiaume, Johan Coste, Renaut le Juene.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:913-14, no. 26; RRH 1189
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RRR: 2770
year: 1250
text: After May 6 (surrender of Damietta) J. cancellarius writes to Earl Richard of Cornwall who has been informed by a certain clerk of his who has been sent by the queen of France describing King Louis’s advance on Cairo. The king left the duke of Burgundy, the queen and the other wives of the magnates in Damietta. The advance guard comprising the count of Artois, the master of the Temple and William Longa-spata fought their way across a branch of the Nile and against the advice of the Templars pushed on into Mansurah (Mansor). There they were killed. The king subsequently attempted to return to Damietta but was surrounded and captured. To regain his freedom he paid 100,000 silver marks and surrendered Damietta.
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 5:165-69
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RRR: 2771
year: 1250
text: May 15. Acre. Patriarch Robert of Jerusalem describes for the college of cardinals the departure of the crusade from Damietta on 20 November 1249; its advance and encampment at Mansurah (Mansura); the crossing of the River Tanis (fluvius Thaneos) on 8 March at a spot advised by a spy; the battle of Mansurah, during which the count of Artois (comes Attrebathensis), comes Willelmus Longespy, dominus Andreas de Vitreo, dominus de Cusy, dominus Archandus de Brena, dominus Focardus de Merlo, nearly all the Knights Templar present and many others were killed, while others were mortally wounded; the epidemics that afflicted the Christians and the loss of two-thirds of the army (milites, balistarii, armati) through sickness; the attempt on 4 April to retreat to Damietta; the losses on the way and the killing of 3,000 sick by the Saracens (Sarraceni); the escape of the legate and the patriarch by boat to Damietta; the encirclement of the king near a village called Sarensa; the failure of a force, sent from Damietta on the orders of the queen, to extricate the king; the capture of King Louis, his brothers the count of Poitou (comes Pictaviae) and the count of Anjou (comes Andegaviae), the count of Brittany (comes Britanniae), the count of Flanders (comes Flandriae), dominus Philippus de Monte Forti, dominus Baudoinus, dominus Gwido of Ibelin (de Ybelino), praeceptor Templi, praeceptor Hospitalarius, and many barones and milites; their imprisonment at Mansurah; and the message from the king to the queen, the legate and others in Damietta that he had agreed a truce with the sultan. Patriarch Robert gives the terms as follows: Damietta is to be returned to the Saracens (Sarraceni); the king is bound to pay a ransom and reparation payment of 800,000 Saracen besants; all prisoners held by both sides since the emperor Frederick’s truce with Egypt (1229) are to be released; the lands held by the Christians at the time of the king of France’s arrival are secured, but there will be no return of Jerusalem or Bethlehem or the properties of the church of the Holy Sepulchre. Robert describes how on 1 May, at the king’s request, he visited him in imprisonment, accompanied by an amir. While he was present in the camp, the sultan was assassinated and the patriarch and others were in danger, being badly treated by the Muslims. Following further negotiations, Damietta was handed back to the Muslims on 6 May. After the king’s release he, together with the legate, his brothers and many nobles, left Damietta for Acre, where he will remain until the next September passage, to oversee the fulfilment of the terms of the truce.
sources: ‘Annales monasterii Burtonensis’, pp. 285-89; RRH 1190. English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, pp. 103-6
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RRR: 2772
year: 1250
text: May 20. B[enedict of Alignan], bishop of Marseille writes to Pope Innocent IV. There have been rumours that the citadel of Cairo had surrendered to Louis IX, but now the Hospitaller preceptor of Marseille has informed the bishop by letter that on 26 January Louis arrived at Cairo which was handed over to him by certain Saracens who had rebelled against their sultan as well as by the master of the Hospital (William of Chastel Neuf (Châteauneuf), a prisoner of war since 1244) and other Christians who were held prisoner there. Two days later the sultan brought up 100,000 (or 200,000) mounted warriors and countless infantry. The king organized four divisions of his army: (1) the count of Flanders with the Templars; (2) the counts of Brittany and St Pol; (3) the king with the counts of Poitou, Artois and Provence, the duke of Burgundy and many others; and (4) the count of Artois, the master of the Hospital and several others. Battle lasted from the third hour until nightfall. Many Saracens massacred; the sultan fled; Christian losses – knights, crossbowmen and squires – less than 1,000. The king, the queen (who is pregnant) and the king’s brothers and their wives are in good health although the count of Artois lay on the field of battle as if dead for a day and a night. The king holds Cairo, Babylon and Alexandria.
sources: Spicilegium, ed. D’Achery, 3:628; Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:168-69, no. 87. English translation in Jackson, The Seventh Crusade, pp. 97-98
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RRR: 2773
year: 1250
text: *c. June 1250.* Frederick II (l’empereur Ferri) writes to the sultan of Egypt (Tūrān Shāh) urging the release of the king of France. (Unable to deliver the letter owing to the sultan’s death, the messengers came to Acre and showed their letters of credence to the king.)
sources: Joinville, § 443, pp. 216-18; RRH 1178.
comments: Note: Date is after news of Louis’s captivity, April 1250, became known in the West but before news of Tūrān Shāh’s death, 2 May, was known. The envoys are said to have reached Acre not long after the departure of Louis’s brothers on the autumn sailing
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RRR: 2774
year: 1250
text: July 4. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the rector and brothers of the hospital of the Holy Spirit in Acre, of the Order of Crucifers, which is said to pertain directly to the Roman Church, responding to their request by exempting from tithes their garden, which is designated for the sick and the poor of the hospital.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 2:137, no. 4779; RRH 982
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RRR: 2775
year: 1250
text: July 13. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the rector and brothers of the hospital of the Holy Spirit in Acre, of the Order of Crucifers, which pertains directly to the Roman Church, responding to their request by declaring them exempt from showing obedience and reverence to the bishop of Acre and the other prelates of churches in the Kingdom of Jerusalem,* if their hospital is exempt via papal privileges, as they assert.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 2:132, no. 4758; Schabel et al., Bullarium 3:503, e-41b, addendum
comments: Note: The text has ‘Cyprus’, but it is presumably an error for ‘Jerusalem’.
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