RRR: Privilege/exemption
1333
year: 1192
initiator: Corradus, son of the marquess of Montferrat and his wife Isabella
recipient: Commune of Genoa
text: Apr. 6-28. Tyre. Mindful of the magnificent contribution the city of Genoa made to the liberation of the eastern regions, its defence [of Tyre] and now the part its milites, pedites, balistarii and sagittarii, and siege engines have played in the siege of Acre, and with the consent of his wife Hysabella regis Amalrici filia, Conradus Montisferrati marchio et Tyri dominus makes a sealed grant to the commune of the city of Genoa, represented by Guillelmus Ricius Ianuensium consul in Syria. He confirms its possession of a curia and ruga in the city of Acre, just as it held them before, and whatever it had outside Acre. He also gives a third part of the entry charges [introitus] of the cathena of Acre, together with freedom to enter and leave by sea or land and to buy and sell in the fundicum and catena, and throughout the city, without paying any charge [redditus]. He gives the Genoese the right to a curia, house, bath house and oven, and to entry and departure and to buy and sell in Jaffa, Ascalon and Jerusalem, and in all the territory he should acquire, with the same freedom they have in Tyre and Acre. He promises to restore the golden Genoese inscription in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. Witnesses: Dominus Balianus de Ybelino; dominus Rainaldus Sydonię; dominus Gualterius Durus maurescalcus; of the Genoese, Hengo dominę Galianę; Ansaldus Guaraccus; Symon Bufferius; Arlotus Vicecomes; Rollandus Picius; Guilielmus Bechus Rubeus. The charter was drawn up by magister Oddo domini marchionis notarius.
Apr. 6-28. Tyre. Mindful of the magnificent contribution the city of Genoa made to the liberation of the eastern regions, its defence [of Tyre] and now the part its milites, pedites, balistarii and sagittarii, and siege engines have played in the siege of Acre, and with the consent of his wife... more
sources: Mayer, UKJ 2:907-19, 915 nos. 533, 538 (RRH no. 704)