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.
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... more
sources: unpublished: Archivio di Stato di Palermo: Tabulario dei monasteri di Sancta Maria Maaddelena di Valle Giosafat, TSMG 0109,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
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.
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... more
sources: Delaborde, Chartes de Josaphat, pp. 106-7, no. 51; RRH 1264. Inserted in an instrument dated 27 April 1260
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.
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... more
sources: Delaborde, Chartes de Josaphat, p. 108, no. 52; RRH 1271
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.
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)... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:867-68, no, 2915; RRH 1272
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.
*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... more
sources: see RRR 3154, 1-30 April 1256; Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:868, no. 2916; RRH 1272a
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.
*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... more
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:868, no. 2917; RRH nos. 1284, 1272b
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.
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... more
sources: I Libri Iurium, I/4, ed. Dellacasa, no. 739 pp. 228-30; RRH 1273
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.
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... more
sources: Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:496-97, no. f-32
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.
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.
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.’
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)... more
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 3:35-37, no. 2885