1409

Aug. 1-31. Acre. With the agreement of his wife the Lady Queen Isabella, the daughter of the late King Amalric, Aimery, dei gratia rex Ierusalem nonus et rex Cipri, makes a sealed eleemosynary grant to the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans. He gives the tower over the Gate of St Nicholas at Acre, but the brothers are to have no rights over the Gate, which is an entrance to the city, nor can they make new exactions or dispose of the tower by gift, sale or pledge. If their Order is absorbed into another, they must surrender the tower to the crown, and they must also surrender it if the needs of war or other necessity demand, although it will be returned to them once the crisis is over. Witnesses: Rainaldus Sydonis; Radulfus Tyberiadis senescalcus regni; Iohannes constabularius regni; Iohannes marescalcus regni; Rohardus domnus Cayphe; Terricus de Orca; Terricus de Terrimonde; Raimundus de Gibelet. The charter was drawn up by Ioscius Tyrensis archiepiscopus regnique cancellarius.