RRR: Confirmation/renewal of grants
1249
year: 1187
initiator: Corradus, son of the marquess of Montferrat
recipient: Pisans
text: Oct. 1-31. Tyre. In the house of the Hospital. Wishing to reward those who are helping him defend Tyre and with the advice and consent of magister Monachus Cesariensis archiepiscopus, domnus Leotardus Nazarenus archiepiscopus, domnus Odo episcopus Sydonie, domnus frater Terry domus milicie Templi magnus preceptor, frater Borellus magnus preceptor Hospitalis, other brothers, the milites and burgenses of Tyre and all the commune civitatis, Corradus, son of the marquess of Montferrat, confirms under seal for the Pisans all the gifts and concessions made to them by the late Count Raymond III of Tripoli in Tyre and in its region. These include houses that belonged to the Knights Templar, with a tower and a platea nearby, stretching to the sea near their fondacum above the city wall; houses that belonged to the sons of the late Balduinus Pisanus near the platea by the sea and next to their fundacum; houses that belonged to Matheus Iohannis Guidi, next to the platea by the sea that extend from the houses of the sons of Balduinus to the houses of Vguicio Taliauenti and Guinus Pisanus; and houses that belonged to the king where there was a scriptorium [in which cartule were made] and which are situated beyond the Pisan fundacum. Corradus confirms: the Pisans’ possession of the platea portus on which nothing can be built, except a Pisan logia; the possession by the Pisan commune of an oven, the furnus buciarie, which had belonged to the king and is situated in the ruga buciarie, and a bath house, which had also belonged to the king and is situated in the ruga Templi, by the ruga sancti Iuliani; the right to build 2 horse-mills [molendina equi] in Tyre and an oven in their houses, as specified in a charter from King Baldwin; the right to use weights and measures [statera, et pensae et modia et mensurae] for wine and oil and all other things, conceded to them by Count Raymond, which they can use in sales to other persons; the possession by the Pisan commune outside Tyre and in its neighbourhood of a water mill, with a house and the water, conceded by Count Raymond, a casale called Talobie with 2 guastinae, Rasalaine with all buildings, mills, water and milling rights, a casale called Sydio with a hillside guastina [guastina montis], and Ainebeddelle, with its waters and a garden that had belonged to the king. Corradus also confirms for the commune of the Pisans in Tyre all its liberties and the curia, which it had possessed for a long time in Tyre, and which had been confirmed by Count Raymond of Tripoli. He adds that all Pisans and those leased houses by them, whether swordsmen [scapuli], burgenses, milites, sea captains [comiti] or of any lay condition whatever, should be judged in the Pisan curia, except for cases involving feoda or assisiae, which should be judged in the curiae of lords [domni]. Otherwise no Pisan shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the royal curia in Tyre or elsewhere throughout the kingdom. On the other hand, the king can exact dues [talia] on the houses of Pisan burgenses situated outside the Pisan quarter [extra honorem Pisani communis] if he exacts it elsewhere in the city of Tyre, but he cannot impose any other dues [dricture] because of military or other needs, and the Pisans and those who rent Pisan propertes are to be exempt from terciaria and other dues. Corradus concedes to the Pisans the right to have a vicecomes or consul to run their curia, the right to place their own men in the catena, funda and gates of the city of Tyre to look after Pisans and those who rent properties from them, who are to be free from any attempt by king’s men or those of any baro to tax them on entry and departure. The Pisans are to be free from charges on shipwreck and from any charge on houses, ovens, baths, casalia, mills and weights and measures [statera et pensae et modia et mensurae]. The heirs of Pisans who die can recover their feoda and assisiae. The Pisans have the right to have their own church and its liberties, which Corradus will defend. And because the Pisans have remained in Tyre and are fighting the Sarraceni in defence of the kingdom they will in future be freed from all servicia for the gifts that have been made to them. Witnesses: Frater Giofredus Morin preceptor domus Templi in Tyro; frater Bertramus Deltana miles Templi; frater Petrus Iterii miles; frater Wuillelmus de Uendobre miles; frater Vgo Giofrei miles; frater Achardus Templi capellanus; of the Order [domus] of the Hospital, Frater Hermengaldus prior Sancti Egidii; frater Wuillelmus Alvernacius; frater Pontius de Baia; of the barones, Domnus Hugo Tyberiadis; domnus Radulfus frater eius; domnus Gualterius Cesaree; domnus Helias vicecomes Nazareth; Eustachius vicecomes Legionis; Rainerius de Marone; Vbertus de Orgiolo; Iterius de Manni; Amalricus Godescalci; Wuillelmus de Chaineto; Vbertus Nepos senescalcus marchionis; Ansaldus Bonuicinus; Balduinus frater eius; Bernardus Templi in Tyro vicecomes; Wuillelmus Caim; Matheus Iohannis Guidi; Symon de Falesia. The charter was drawn up by Bandinus domni marchionis scriba.
Oct. 1-31. Tyre. In the house of the Hospital. Wishing to reward those who are helping him defend Tyre and with the advice and consent of magister Monachus Cesariensis archiepiscopus, domnus Leotardus Nazarenus archiepiscopus, domnus Odo episcopus Sydonie, domnus frater Terry domus milicie Templi... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:859-65, no. 519 (RRH no. 665)