RRR: Correspondence/envoy
28
year: 1100
initiator: Patriarch Daibert of Jerusalem
recipient: Catholic churchmen and laymen in the German region
text: May or Jun. Daibert, patriarch of Jerusalem and S. Sepulcri adiutorum servus, sends Brother Arnulfus to appeal for assistance from all Catholic churchmen and laymen in the German region. He reports that many crusaders have returned home after the capture of Jerusalem. Others, who stayed until Easter, have left in Pisan and English ships. Mercenaries, who have to be very well rewarded, are defending Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Tiberias, Samaria, the castle of Hebron, Ramla, beati martyris Georgii sacratae, and other fortified places until financial help comes from Germans and Latins.
May or Jun. Daibert, patriarch of Jerusalem and S. Sepulcri adiutorum servus, sends Brother Arnulfus to appeal for assistance from all Catholic churchmen and laymen in the German region. He reports that many crusaders have returned home after the capture of Jerusalem. Others, who stayed until... more
sources: Hagenmeyer, Die Kreuzzugsbriefe, pp. 176-7, no. 21, corr. Kedar, ‘Ein Hilferuf aus Jerusalem vom September 1187’, pp. 113-14 (RRH no. 30a)