1377.03.01.

1 March, 1377
Pope Gregory XI allows the Hospitallers the sale or lease of properties of the order in Italy, up to the worth of 60.000 fl., to help the oriental Christians under threat with a contigent of 500 knights of the order. (1) - NLM Arch. 12, no. 27. Original parchment. - Jürgen Sarnowsky, Die Johanniter und Smyrna (1344-1402), 2, in: Römische Quartalsschrift 86 (1991), n. 16, p. 1.

Gregorius episcopus servus servorum dei. Delectis filiis Gaucherio de Bastida priori Tholose(2) [...] salutem et apostolicam benedictionem.

Dudum de speciali mandato nostro extitit ordinatum, quod pro succursu et adiutorio Christianorum parcium orientis [...] 500 fratres milites Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerosolimitani cum totidem scutiferis in presenti vere ad partes ipsas debeant transfretare [...] Pro huiusmodi negocio exequendo et complendo [...] nobis vendendi de prioratuum(a) et preceptoriarum Italiea prefati Hospitalis possessionibus, bonis et rebus aliis usque ad summam 60 000 fl. auri in huiusmodi passagio convertendam licenciam concedere dignaremur [...].

Datum Rome apud Sanctum Petrum kalendas Marcii pontificatus nostri anno septimo.

(a) It follows a gap filled with a line.
(1) Cf. Delaville, Hospitaliers, p. 191, n. 1.
(2) Aside of Gaucher de la Bastide are named: Daniel de Carreto, preceptor of Cyprus, Pierre de Berneville, of Haut-Avesne, Dominico de Alemania, of S. Stefano de Monopoli (cf. Delaville, Hospitaliers, pp. 189-90).


first adaptation 06.06.2022 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 06.06.2022 /
status: proofread /
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