1272

Nov. 19. In the siege camp before Acre. Guy, per dei gratiam in sancta civitate Ierusalem Latinorum rex VIIIus, and his wife Queen Sibylla confirm under seal for the Pisan commune all the gifts and concessions made to the Pisans 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 fundacum above the city wall; houses that belonged to the sons of the late Balduinus Pisanus with the nearby platea by the sea and next to their fundacum; houses that belonged to Matheus Iohannis Guidi, with the platea by the sea that extend from the houses of the sons of Balduinus to the houses of Vguicio Taliauenti and Ghinus 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. Guy and Sibylla confirm: the Pisans’ possession of the platea portus on which nothing can be built, except a Pisan logia; the possession by the Pisan commune of 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] of wine and oil and all other things in sales to other persons, conceded to them by Count Raymond; 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 gastinae, Rasalaine with all buildings, mills, water and milling rights, a casale called Sydio with a hillside gastina [gastina montis], and Amebeddelle, with its waters and a garden that had belonged to the king and queen. Guy and Sibylla also confirm for the commune of the Pisans in Tyre all its liberties, including entry and departure by sea and land, and the curia, which it had possessed in Tyre, and which had been confirmed by Count Raymond of Tripoli. They add that all Pisans and those leased houses by them, whether scapuli, burgenses, milites, 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. The Pisans can exact dues [talia] on the houses of Pisan burgenses situated outside the Pisan quarter [extra honorem Pisani communis]. The king 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. Guy and Sibylla concede 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, bath house, 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 Guy and Sibylla 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 servitia for the gifts that have been made to them. These confirmations and concessions depend on Pisan support of Guy and Sibylla. Witnesses: Gaufridus de Lezeniaco; Aimericus regius conestabulus; Balianus de Ibilino; Hugo Tyberiadis; Willelmus Tyberiadis; Gaufridus Tortus; Galganus de Cheneche; Alelmus Bellus. The charter was drawn up by Petrus regius cancellarius et Tripolitane ecclesie archidiaconus.