1380.08.19.

19 August, 1380
Note on the order for the general receiver in the West, Fr. Pierre de Provins, to pay 570 fl yearly for six years to the grand preceptor of the order, Fr. Bertrand Flote, as recompensation for the payment of the mercenaries at Smyrna which was made with monies due to his office. - NLM Arch. 48, fol. 171v-172r. Account, register. - Jürgen Sarnowsky, Die Johanniter und Smyrna (1344-1402), 2, in: Römische Quartalsschrift 86 (1991), n. 18, p. 55-56.

Mandement de paier a frere Bertran grant comandeur de Rodes 570 fl.

Frater Johannes Ferdinandi de Redia [...] / {182r} et nos conventus Rodi [...] fratri Petri de Provins domus eiusdem Parisius preceptori ac in partibus ultramarinis generali responsionum receptori salute.

Ad vestram deducimus noticiam, quod nos pro solucione stipendiariorum civitatis Smerruensis(a) faciente non habentes aliunde solvere stipendarios contentare, nobili viro Johanni de Cursinis de Florencia, certo precio habito et recepto, arrendavimus et imperpetuum concessimus casale nostrum de Polona ad annos sex, quos spectat et pertinet [...] fratri Bertrando Floti magno preceptore, (1) quem ob hoc, et decet, volentes indempnem in dicti casalis compensacionem reddere, eidem assignavimus anno quolibet dictorum sex annorum fl. 570 cugny serenissime domine regine Neapolitanensis,(2) solvendos in aurum de quibuscunque peccuniis nostris. [...]

Data Rodi die decima nona mensis Augusti anno incarnationis domini(b) millesimo trecentesimo octuagesimo.

(a)Sic! .
(b) It follows a word crossed-out (?).
(1) Cf. Delaville, Hospitaliers, pp. 149-51, 185, 188, 190 etc. (2) Probably in coins of Joan I (1343-1381), for the exchange rate of £1 to Neapolitan Silver Carlini cf. P. Spurford, Handbook of Médiéval Exchange, London 1986, p 63.


first adaptation 08.06.2022 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 08.06.2022 /
status: proofread /
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