1374.10.06.

6 October, 1374
Master Fr. Robert de Juilly reminds the prior of Francia of the decisions at Avignon in September 1373 and of the nomination of Juan Fernández de Heredia as receiver of the responsions and other dues. 40.000 fl. are reserved for the Convent at Rhodos and its supplies, 80000 fl. will be kept in Avignon to finance a passagium, also for the support of Smyrna. Also, other brethren responsible for the collection of responsions are nominated. (1) - NLM Arch. 320, fol. 41v. Register. - Jürgen Sarnowsky, Die Johanniter und Smyrna (1344-1402), 2, in: Römische Quartalsschrift 86 (1991), n. 13, p. 53.

Frater Robertus etc. [...] fratri domus eiusdem priori Francie prioratus salutem etc.

Cum anno preterito in assembleya anno domini 1373° in Avinione celebrata(a) mense Septembris aliqua fuerunt(b) ordinata [...] fuit [...] commissus [...] frater Johannes Ferdinandi etc. ad colligendum peccunias, responsiones, taxa, arreragia, spolia prioratuum quorumcumque vacancium necnon mortuaria et quecumque alia pertinencia et debita quoquomodo nobis et domui nostre.

De quibus [...] summa 40 000 fl. debent dari conventui Rodi pro sustentacione dicti conventus. Et summa 80 000 fl. debent poni in deposito(c) in Avinione vel in Veneciis secundum ordinacionem dicte assembleye pro oneribus dicte religionis supportandi.

Et quia nos tota mente affectamus beneplacita et mandata domini nostri pappe(d) adimplere, vobis [...] mandamus, quod cum Benedictus Norietii, Jacobus Bernardi, Peroctius Bernardi, Mattheus de Bonocursu, Mattheus de Vita de societate Albertorum antiquorum de Florencia et quilibet eorum nobis et nostre domui sint pro dictis summis efficaciter obligati, reddendum in Avinione, eorum sumptibus et expensis [...], responsiones, taxa, arreragia, spolia et debita prioratus vestri ipsis vel eorum alteri dare, solvere seu dari et assignare facere debeatis [...].

Precaveatis, ne peccunias camerarum vestrarum seu subsidia passagii vestri ad conventum nostrum Rodi deliberetis, eisdem ymmo ipsas tradatis et solvatis per vos super hoc ordinatis vel ordinandi in premissis, et quolibet premissorum taliter vos habeatis, quod de negligencia seu inobediencia non possitis accusari [...].

Data Avinioni 6a Octobris anno predicto [1374].

(a) In the ms. as cele-/lebrata.
(b) In the ms. as furunt (?), probably an error of the scribe.
(c) Sic, crossed out, follows vob (?).
(d) Sic (!).
(1) Also sent to the other priories, see the list in NLM 320, fol. 41v-42r; cf. Luttrell, Gregory XI and the Turks (1980), in idem, Latin Greece, item XV, p. 405 , n. 63.


first adaptation 05.06.2022 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 05.06.2022 /
status: proofread /
for any comments: send me an e-mail Juergen.Sarnowsky@uni-hamburg.de (Jürgen Sarnowsky)


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