RRR: Correspondence/envoy
825
year: 1169
initiator: Philippus Neapolitanus, master of the Temple
recipient: Dominus Mauricius de Credone
institution: Templars
text: (c. Mar.) Phil[ippus] Neapolitanus magister miliciae Templi describes how, when he was crati Montis Regalis dominus, he visited the monks of Mt Sinai, who gave him a fragment of the body of St Catherine. While in Constantinople he was presented with a relic of the True Cross by the Emperor Manuel himself, who had been assured by his father that it was genuine. Philippus presents both relics to dominus Mauricius de Credone. [117]
(c. Mar.) Phil[ippus] Neapolitanus magister miliciae Templi describes how, when he was crati Montis Regalis dominus, he visited the monks of Mt Sinai, who gave him a fragment of the body of St Catherine. While in Constantinople he was presented with a relic of the True Cross by the Emperor Manuel... more
sources: Broussillon, La Maison de Craon 1:101, no. 138; also ed. by Farcy, Cartulaire, pp. 10-11