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RRR: 3246
year: 1258
text: *1253 x October 9 1258. Philipe de Montfort, lord of Tyre confirms the Marseillais privileges at Tyre in the presence of Gilles, archbishop of Tyre and Hugues Revel, Hospitaller grand commander.
sources: Ruffi, Histoire de la ville de Marseille, 1:96; RRH 1297
comments: Note: Undated. After the election of Gilles as archbishop in 1253 and before the election of Hugh as Hospitaller master between 14 June and 9 October 1258.
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RRR: 3247
year: 1258
text: October 9. Acre. In the house of [the canons of the] Holy Sepulchre. At the will of their brothers and of Pope Alexander IV, Frater Thomas Berardi, domus milicie Templi magister, frater Hugo de Revel, domus hospitalis sancti Iohannis Ierosolimitani et pauperum Christi custos, and frater Anno de Sangerhusen, domus hospitalis sancte Marie Theutonicorum magister, come to a sealed agreement in relation to disputes that arise between them in the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Armenia, the principality of Antioch and the county of Tripoli, although not included are cases involving castles, castellanies, towns (ville) and casalia. PROCEDURE FOR RESOLUTION. If any case arises in his district, the grand commander (magnus preceptor) of an Order in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Cyprus or Armenia, or of the land of Antioch and Tripoli, the castellanus of Cratum or Margatum, or the commander (preceptor) of Tripoli should speak to his neighbouring preceptor. If there is no resolution within a month, 1 or 2 brothers from the region should be chosen by each of the preceptores involved, who will then ask the preceptor of the third Order to appoint a brother, if it is not involved in the dispute. The 5 brothers will swear to treat the matter in good faith. These arbitrators should take a month investigating the case, and within 8 days deliver their arbitration, whether, unanimous or decided by a majority. If the preceptores cannot agree on the choice of arbitrators, they should within a month approach their masters or lieutenants to each appoint a brother to assist in the process. Some clauses deal with cases in which those chosen are unwilling or ill or involved in missions, or engage in violence. The need to defend the faith governs the approach to expenses. If a brother of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans needs assistance with expenses, help will be provided in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but not in the principality of Antioch, the county of Tripoli, or the Kingdom of Armenia. IMMOVEABLES AND MOVABLES. If a preceptor of these Orders should wish to buy an immovable property on this side of the sea or in Cyprus worth less than 1,000 Saracen besants, he should notify the local superiors of the other Orders, who should not try to hinder or change that deed. But if any commander wishes to buy on this side of the Sea or in Cyprus any immovable worth more than 1,000 Saracen besants and has notified the others as above, such a purchase can be shared, if the Order is willing. Exceptions are fiefs (feudales), censive lands (censivi) and lordships, in which cases the other Orders cannot have or require anything. If indeed any such immovables purchased should border on the property of another Order, in which brothers reside, it should be surrendered for the same price to the Order with a community nearer to the purchase. If a commander of one of these Orders wishes to buy any movables in the city of Acre, to meet the needs of his house, the commanders of the other Orders should not, after they have been notified, interfere or hinder that purchase, but once it has been completed the commander who bought it should ask the commanders of the other Orders if they would like a share in it, up to a third, and the commander is held to surrender that part of the purchase for the amount it cost him, except in the cases of mules, horses, camels and donkeys, and all live animals, which any commander can buy as he wishes. Any alms-gift or donation be made to any of the three Orders out of censive properties, borgesies (borgesiae) or lordships (signoria) belonging to the other Orders or of any goods dependent on the same, should be sold within a year to a lay man who is subject to the lordship of the Order to whose possession this property relates, so that the Order to which service is owed cannot be cheated of the service due to it. If any of our Orders has been entrusted with the goods of anyone, whether he be a confrater or another, and another Order or the [preceptor] of another Order seizes or has seized the aforesaid goods, the preceptor of the Order to which the goods have been entrusted should seek amends or satisfaction from the preceptor of the other Order, who should surrender them and make amends to the preceptor who raised the issue, according to procedures already laid down. If it should happen that any men, who are subject to any of the three Orders should quarrel among themselves over movable possessions or for any other reason, the preceptores are held to quieten and pacify the disputes and quarrels, according to procedures already laid down, with the exception of disputes about liegemen (homines legii) and feudatories (feudati), which should be terminated according to the assises and customs of the places where they live. If the men subject to one Order come to settle on the land of another, the bailivus from whose bailiva the men came should let the bailivus of the other Order know within eight days of this coming to his notice. If these men are proved to be subject to the second Order, through testimony secured by the vow of obedience of a brother or by the oath of a scriba, let the law take its course according to the usage of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and in the land of Antioch and in Armenia and Cyprus following the approved custom of those lands. In the land of Tripoli, if after examination of the men their desertion has been proved, the men who moved to the lands of another Order should be arrested. And if any of them owe debts to the Order to which they were originally subject, the bailivi of both Orders should meet within eight days and if the debts are proved by testimony secured by the religious promise of a brother or by the oath of a scriba or a servant, the Order in possession of the land to which the men went should pay the debts within the following month if it wishes these men to remain on its land and its bailivus wants to keep them. But if he refuses to retain them, they ought to be arrested until the debt owed to the Order in possession of the land they left is paid. If the men refuse to pay, they, their families and possessions should be handed over to the bailiff of the Order in possession of the land they left. OTHER MATTERS. And we are led to state for the good of Christianity that the brothers of one house or their men cannot and should not assume arms and bear them against the other Orders. Brothers who absent themselves, are held to defend their confratres. The question of the claims of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem to the obedience of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans is not covered in this agreement. In future no brother should aim to buy, gage or exchange or acquire any property in the lordship of one of the other Orders. PRESERVATION OF THE AGREEMENT. Above all, it is ordained that if any new master should be elected in any of the Orders, the newly created master should be held to abide by this agreement, and he is held to have this agreement recited in his chapter-general in the presence of twelve brothers of the other two Orders; and he should swear to observe this agreement and to see that it is observed. And the three masters and their successors ought to have this agreement read and recited each year in our chapters-general and ought to order and command the brothers that it should be observed by all. Whenever preceptores and castellani are made on this side of the Sea and in Cyprus they should make a similar oath and they should make other preceptores, castellani and bailivi subject to them swear to observe this agreement and treaty inviolably and faithfully. The penalty for non-observance will be 1,000 marchae argenti. Witnesses: Jacobus Dei gratia patriarcha Ierosolymitanus, apostolice sedis legatus; lord John of Ibelin (dominus Iohannes de Ybellino) dominus Azoti, constabulus et baiulus regni Ierosolymitani; dominus Gaufridus de Sarginis senescalcus eiusdem regni; dominus Iohannes de Valentinis dominus Cayfe; dominus Stephanus de Savignino; magister Guillelmus, deacon of Acre (decanus Acconensis) and archdeacon of Tyre (et archidiaconus Tyrensis); and many others.
sources: Strehlke, Tabulae, pp. 98-103, no. 116; cf. Mayer, UKJ 3:1409-11, no. 807; RRH 1269
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RRR: 3248
year: 1258
text: October 10. Acre. Frater Thomas Berardi, pauperis Militie Templi magister, records under seal that he has received in an agreement the church of St Giles in Acre from Felix prior et rector ecclesie sancti Egidii Acconensis, who is going to Rome on church business; for a rent of 60 libre Turonenses, payable to [Felix] at Michaelmas by the treasury of the Knights Templar in Paris until the case between dominus Felix and Jacobus clericus Anconitanus is terminated.
sources: Urban IV, Les Registres 1:81, no. 193; RRH 1269a
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RRR: 3249
year: 1258
text: October 1 – 31. (or 1259). With the advice and authority of his convent Thomas Berart maistre de la chevalerie dou Temple records under seal that he has granted safe conduct under Templar custody to the following lords: Henri seignor de Gibeleth; Guillaume seigneur de Botron; Mellior seigneur de Maraclée; les enfans Bertran de Gibeleth; Jehan mareschau de Triple; Jehan Pharabel seigneur dou Pui; Hugue Saleman; Thomas Arra; Raimont de Mareclee; Baudoin de Mont Olif; Johan visconte de Triple; Ingue Embriac; Gui dou Patriarche; Raimont de Vedde; Johan de Flaencort; Bertran Faisan; Piere Loup; Phelippe Estomac; Hue de Mareclée; Piere de la Tor; Johan d’Arches; and Jaques de Thabore; together with their homes and heirs. When in dispute with the prince [of Antioch-Tripoli], the Knights Templar commit themselves to this protection and to restraining the prince for the next 5 years, commencing in the previous May, establishing the terms under which their custody would operate. Guarantors: Frere Recelins de Fox; frere Jofroiz de Fox; frere Amblarz; frere Amfox Gomes compagnon dou maistre; frere Martins Senchens; Gilebert Alboini.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Les Archives, pp. 181-84, no. 79; RRH 1201. Wrongly dated 1252 in the printed edition – Thomas Berard was not yet master. Jean Richard, ‘Le comté de Tripoli dans les chartes du fonds des Porcellet’, p. 354 n.3 proposes 1258 or 1259 as the correct date.
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RRR: 3250
year: 1259
text: *December 16. Agreement between Hospitaller master Hugues Revel and Archbishop H[enri] of Nazareth concerning the 200 carrucates of land in the land of Bathos.
sources: See RRR 3088, 1-31 July 1255; Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:865 no. 2907; RRH 1270a
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RRR: 3251
year: 1259
text: January 4. Agnani. On 13 November 1258, on behalf of the pope, Constantinus, the papal usher had instructed magister Dalfinatus of Nablus (de Neapoli), subdeacon and papal chaplain, to hear the appeal on a case between the archbishop of Tyre and his chapter and the abbot and convent of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat (S. Maria de Valle Josaphat). Then on 12 December, in the presence of magister Dalfinatus, magister Angelerius, procurator of the abbot of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, then moved the appeal against the sentence in a dispute about tithes with the decanus and church of Jaffa, made by magister Guibertus, canonicus Synodiensis, the officialis of the patriarch of Jerusalem, on the grounds that it was unjust. On 4 January Angelerius, in view of the contumacia of his opponent’s procurator requested that the court proceed to judgement. Notarised statement by Jacobus Tudini de Podiobonsi.
sources: unpublished: Archivio di Stato di Palermo: Tabulario dei monasteri di Sancta Maria Maaddelena di Valle Giosafat, TSMG 0109, https://www.archiviodigitale.icar.beniculturali.it/it/185/ricerca/detail/370234; RRH 1273c
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RRR: 3252
year: 1259
text: January 9. Anagni. Alexander IV writes to Bishop [Thomas] of Bethlehem (Bethleemitanus), papal legate, relating that he was told on behalf of the abbot and convent of St Mary of the Valley of Josaphat of the Order of St Benedict in the diocese of Jerusalem that during the quarrel that arose some time ago between the Genoese, on the one side, and the Venetians and Pisans, on the other, in Outremer, their fighting and that of their supporters and accomplices caused serious damage and loss to the abbot and convent. Thus the abbot and convent asked the pope for a remedy. The pope orders the addressee, if it is so, to compel the aforesaid Genoese, Venetians, Pisans, and their supporters and accomplices to make satisfaction to the abbot and convent for the losses and damages they are known to have caused, after a warning, through ecclesiastical censure, without appeal.
sources: Delaborde, Chartes de Josaphat, pp. 106-7, no. 51; RRH 1264. Inserted in an instrument dated 27 April 1260
comments: Note: In the printed text this letter is assigned to 1258 on the basis of it being issued in the fourth year of Pope Alexander. However, since Thomas was not sent as legate until the second half of 1258, and the papal letters of January 1258 are all dated Viterbo, while those of January 1259 are dated Anagni, the pontifical year “anno quarto” seems to be an error for “anno quinto”. This letter should therefore be dated to 1259.
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RRR: 3253
year: 1259
text: January 8. Anagni. Alexander IV writes to Bishop [Thomas] of Bethlehem (Bethlemitanus), papal legate, and the abbots of the Mount of Olives and of St Samuel residing in Acre (Accon), relating that the abbot and the convent of St Mary of the Valley of Josaphat complained to him that Archbishop [Henry] of Nazareth (Nazarenus), the noble Lord [John de Valentinis] of Cayfa, and some others of the cities and dioceses of Acre, of Bethlehem (Bethlemitana), and Nazareth (Nazarena) are causing them harm over the casale of Anna, tithes, possessions, debts, and other things that belong by law to that monastery. The pope orders the addressees to summon the parties, hear the case, and decide it with a due end, without appeal, having their decision firmly observed on papal authority, provided that they do not pronounce a sentence of excommunication or interdict against anyone without receiving special mandate from the pope.
sources: Delaborde, Chartes de Josaphat, p. 108, no. 52; RRH 1271
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RRR: 3254
year: 1259
text: April 14. Mont Pèlerin [Monpellerin]. Hue de Gibellet, son of Bertrant de Gibellet, sells for 5,000 besants Tripolaz to Hugue Revel, the Hospitaller master, a casal which he has en la core de Triple called Boutourafig and fifteen strips of land on the plain before Tripoli in a field (un cham) called le cham de la Maison along with all the associated rights except for three of his men: Thome, Raiz Bolos and his brother Raiz Guillaume and except for one ltramar of land with its vilenis which the Templars have in this casal. The casal is bordered on the east by a casal belonging to the bishop called Caphrahael; on the east and north by a casal belonging to the bishop called Hab; on the west by a casal of the lord of Botron called Hayr; on the south by another of Hue’s casals called Haabe. Hue seals the document. Witnesses: Henri lord of Gibellet, Guillaume lord of Botron, Johan the marshal of Tripoli, Baudoyn de Mont Olif; Hue’s homes: Johan de la Broisse, Johan lord of Monene.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:867-68, no, 2915; RRH 1272
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RRR: 3255
year: 1259
text: *April 19. Bohemond (Boémond) IV (recte VI), prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli, regards Huges Revel, the master, and his Order quit of all the damages he claims to have received from them since the peace he had made with William of Chastel Neuf (Guillaume de Châteauneuf), with the vidimus of Patriarch Thomas of Jerusalem, legate of the Holy See and administrator of Acre.
sources: see RRR 3154, 1-30 April 1256; Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:868, no. 2916; RRH 1272a
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