1348

RRR: 
1348
RRH: 
712
YEAR: 
1193
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT: 
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: 
Apr. 30. Frater Gaufridus sancta domus Hospitalis Hierusalem humilis magister and his chapter send frater W. de Vileruns prepositus ultramarinus news of the deaths of Mestoc [on 1 October], the vetus dominus Assyriorum, the sultan of Konya, and Saladin [on the Wednesday of the first week of March], among whose sons in Aleppo, Damascus and Cairo [Babylonia] there is discord. Now may be the time to recover the Holy Land.Truces still prevail, but the Latin East is short of inhabitants.

Transaction Type :

INSTITUTION NUMBER: 
322
Delaville Le Roulx vol. 1: 
945
Sources: 
Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 1:597-8, no. 945 (RRH no. 712)
GRANTOR: 
Gaufridus de Donjon, master of the Hospital
RECIPIENT: 
Frater W. de Vileruns prepositus ultramarinus

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