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RRR: 3256
year: 1259
text: *April 21. Bohemond (Bohémond) VI, prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli comes to an agreement with the Hospitallers: perpetual peace; restitution to the Hospitallers of sequestered landed properties; annual payment to the Hospitallers of 2,000 eels; nomination of arbiters to determine customs claimed by the Hospitallers in Antioch; Hospitaller freedom to buy and sell in Bohemond’s lands.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:868, no. 2917; RRH nos. 1284, 1272b
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RRR: 3257
year: 1259
text: April 30. Ind. I (II). Genoa. In the palace (palatio) of Opiçonis de Flisco, where the dominus capitaneus (Guillelmus Bucanigrus) dwells. Ugucio de Arezio, citizen of Messina, as nuncius and procurator of Dulce, widow of Willelmus Rubeus and heir of the late Merlo Schillinus (the procuration was issued by the notary Matheus de Ricio and dated 11 September 1252 as mentioned in the attached letter of Manfredus, king of Sicily; 12 September 1258 q.v. specifying that Merlo died in Acre), on behalf of Dolce acknowledges that Guillelmus Bucanigrus, captain of the people of Genoa and the presence of his anciani delivered 1,410 lire being everything that came to the commune of Genoa and the consuls of Genoa, beyond the seas from the goods of the late Merlo who died intestate overseas. Witnesses: Ferrarius de Castro, iudex, and Armanus Pinellus.
sources: I Libri Iurium, I/4, ed. Dellacasa, no. 739 pp. 228-30; RRH 1273
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RRR: 3258
year: 1259
text: July 1258 to April 1259. Pope Alexander IV writes to King [Hugh II] of Cyprus, relating that the urgent and evident necessity of the kingdoms of Cyprus, Jerusalem, Armenia, and Egypt, the province of Antioch, and other areas of Outremer requires that he send a legate, to which office he is assigning Bishop T[homas] of Bethlehem (Bethlemitanus). The pope urges the king to treat the legate in proper fashion.
sources: Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:496-97, no. f-32
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RRR: 3259
year: 1259
text: April 1-30. Declaration of the monk Neilos of the abbey of Machairas by which he commits himself at the time of his ordination as priest to remain in his monastery and maintain obedience.
sources: Beihammer, Griechische Briefe und Urkunden aus dem Zypern der Kreuzfahrerzeit, no. 91 pp. 221-22 cf. pp. 297-98, 359-60.
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RRR: 3260
year: 1259
text: May 15. Anagni. Pope Alexander IV writes to Consiglio Lotaringi and Bene da Cetara (Consilio Lotheringii et Bene de Cetera), associates, citizens, and merchants of Florence, relating that he was shown their petition explaining that they had a legal case with Bishop [Opizo] of Tripoli (Tripolitanus) that the pope assigned to Cardinal-Deacon O[ctavianus] of Santa Maria in Via Lata, who in turn assigned subdeacon and papal chaplain Master Ubertus de Cochenato (Cocconato) to hear the case. After the proper procedure, the cardinal was informed and decided the case definitively, and at the request of the addressees the pope confirms and strengthens it, inserting the public instrument of Ubertus verbatim: ‘Before the cardinal, in his name and in that of Bene, Consiglio proposed against Bishop Opizo (Obizo [sic]) Of Tripoli (Tripolitanus) that while the bishop was at the Apostolic See with papal permission to borrow up to 10,000 gold Saracen besants of Acre (Accon), at the weight Acre, for his and his church’s business at the Roman Curia, he confessed and recognized that he had borrowed for this purpose from the Florentine citizen and merchant Jacobus Chiberti (Iacopo Giberti), in his name and that of his associates, 6,000 such besants, promising Jacobus that he, his church, or his successors would repay the merchants or their nuncio in full in Tripoli or Acre (Accon) the following 1 August [1258], otherwise he promised to pay every two months afterwards for damages, interest, and expenses 10 besants for every 100 besants owed (10%) and the expenses of one merchant with one horse and one servant, wherever he may be, until the full amount is paid, as is recorded in the public instrument made for this purpose. But the bishop did not pay in the time and place nor afterwards. Jacobus and his associates then sold the debt of 6,000 besants plus damages, interest, and expenses to Consiglio and Bene da Cetara. In his name and in that of Bene, Consiglio asked that the bishop be condemned and forced to pay the original 6,000 plus damages, interest, and expenses, which they calculate to be 4,000 such besants. The cardinal assigned the case to Master Ubertus, who heard the case with the parties in his presence. The procurator of the bishop admitted that the bishop promised as he did, but denied that it should happen as Consiglio proposed. With oaths taken by the main parties and the instruments of the merchants shown, reasons, rights, and allegations proposed, after diligent deliberation Ubertus reported his findings to the cardinal, namely that the bishop owed Consiglio and Bene 6,000 besants plus 1,300 for damages, interest, and expenses. With special mandate from the cardinal, Ubertus condemned the bishop to pay the merchants or their procurator in the city of Tripoli (Tripolitana) the coming August [1259] 3,400 besants and 3,900 besants in the same place the following August [1260]. The sentence was given at Anagni in the presence of the bishop’s procurator, Antonius Azarii, and Consiglio, before several witnesses, on 5 May 1258, drawn up by Paris de Spoleto, public notary.’
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 3:35-37, no. 2885
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RRR: 3261
year: 1259
text: May 25. Acre in the church of Saint Mark. Marcus Justinianus, Venetian bailo in Acre, and his counsellors Petrus Bricius and Johanes de Molino, acting on behalf of the Venetian commune in Acre, declare that they have received from Ugo Revel, the Hospitaller master, and his convent a house belonging to Hospital in Acre for the annual rent of 40 Saracen besants at the weight of Acre. It is bounded on the east by the houses that once belonged to Guillelmus de Nogan, on the west by the platea, where onions (cepe) are sold, where now the new Venetian wall is, on the south by the commune’s road where there is now one of the commune’s new gates, and to the north the houses of the wife of the late Pandulfus, which belonged to the son of Guillelmus de Nogan, where is the great road of the commune at the entrance gate to the new walls of the commune. The rent is assigned against the income from two stationes located near the platea once called the platea Longobardorum, which now belongs to the commune of Venice. The bounds of one of these: on the west the statio which used to belong to the lady Symona, wife of the late Pandulfus, but now Simon de Grecis has, on the west the statio of the knight Denis, to the south the said platea, to the north it abuts the statio which formerly belonged to Ugo de Castello and now belongs to the commune of Venice. The bounds of the other: to the east it abuts the statio of Johanes de Trecis, on the west the statio of the knight Denis, to the south it abuts the statio which formerly belonged to Ugo de Castello and now belongs to the commune of Venice, and to the north is the commune’s road before the parvis of the church of St. Mark. Should it happen that the rents are insufficient the commune will produce the money from another source, payable on the Feast of All Saints. The document is drawn up by John, the plebanus of Saint Mark of Acre and sealed with the seal [of the commune]. Witnesses: Marcus Justinianus, bajulus in Acre, Petrus Brissi and Johannes da Molino, consiliarii. I John, presbiter et plebanus of Saint Mark of Acre, notary, completed and confirmed it.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:869-70, no. 2919; RRH 1273.
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RRR: 3262
year: 1259
text: May 30. Anagni. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Federico Visconti] Pisanus and Bishop [Florent] of Acre, explaining the letter of May 15 and ordering them or one of them, themselves or through another or others, to execute the sentence of Oberto da Cocconato.
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 25, f. 206r-v, no. 124B; summary in Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 3:37, no. 2886
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RRR: 3263
year: 1259
text: *June 20. Anagni. The abbot of the abbey of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat has come to Rome to oversee his appeal against the dean of the church of Jaffa over certain tithes. Pope Alexander IV orders the archdeacon of Lydda and the treasurer of Beirut to be objective about the rights of the abbot after his departure from Rome.
sources: Kohler, ‘Chartes’, pp. 182-83, no. 75. Calendar entry; RRH 1273b
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RRR: 3264
year: 1259
text: *June 21. Anagni. Pope Alexander IV informs the bishop of Bethlehem and the papal legate (Thomas of Lentini), the cantor of Acre and the treasurer of Beirut that the abbot and convent of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat has appealed against the sentence made by the patriarch of Jerusalem about the abbey’s dispute with the dean of Jaffa (diocese of Lydda) over tithes and other things. They are to judge the appeal, confirming or quashing the patriarch’s sentence.
sources: Kohler, ‘Chartes’, p. 183, no. 76. Calendar entry; RRH 1273c
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RRR: 3265
year: 1259
text: July 17. Ind. II. Tripoli. Although Bonifacius the treasurer and the canons Andreas and Johannes of Tripoli have hitherto opposed the agreement made between magister Philippus, the cantor of Tripoli, and the master and brothers of the Hospital concerning certain tithes from which the order claims to be immune by the virtue of a certain privilege (see RRR 3267) and ratified by O[pizo] bishop of Tripoli, they now withdraw their objections and accept the agreement to which the seal of the chapter is now affixed. Witnesses: Magister Bartholomaeus, canon of Antioch and cantor of Valenia, Johannes de S. Vitali. Anselmus de Alex., notarius sacri palatii, wrote this document.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:872, no. 2922; RRH 1274
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