1402.10.20.

20 October, [?1402].
Notes on a discussion in the order's council at Rhodes how to protect the strongholds in Greece against the Ottoman threat. It is decided to focus first on Rhodes, the other islands of the order and equally on Smyrna, before participating in the defence of mainland Greece. - NLM Arch. 332, cover folio. Bound in top-down, damaged and fragmentary, register. - Jürgen Sarnowsky, Die Johanniter und Smyrna (1344-1402), 2, in: Römische Quartalsschrift 86 (1991), n. 88, pp. 93-94.

[...] Die vicesima [...]^(a) mensis Octobris in eodem consilio inter cetera fuit expositum et quesitum ab omnibus ibidem presentibus, quid sibi videatur expediens et fieri debitum de despotatu Romanie et de iure et titulo nobis et religioni nostre debito et compectenti in eodem despotatu, videlicet, an debeamus ius nostrum prosequi, an illud desistere, super quo extitit diucius discussum inter nos, hinc inde tandem nos omnes pro honore et utilitate nostris et religioni nostre in hoc fuimus concordes.

Et convenimus, quod nos et religio nostra prosequamur omnimodo ius nostrum et titulum dicti despotatus, pluribus veris causis nos^(b) moventibus, est quippe verum nos habere ius et titulum in ipso despotatu ex causa vendicionis de eodem nobis facte per despotum,⁽¹⁾ et pro assecucione iuris nostri accessimus ad dictum despotatum cum grandis^(c) expensis et missionibus factis.

Ita tamen volumus, quod primitus et ante omnia de omnibus responsionibus et peccuniis et bonis aliis comunis thesauri [...]^(d) substineatur conven- / {94} tus Rodi in statu debito et satisfiat [.. .]^(e) fratribus, donatis, stipendiariis et aliis officialibus suis stipendiis, et supportantur armamenta et alia neccessaria ^(f)pro custodia^(f) insule Rodi et aliarum religionis et deffensione civitatis Smirnarum^(g), tam pro fratribus quam secularibus, et supportatis premissis. Et id, quod supererit de annuis responsionibus^(h), bonis et rebus aliis religionis, pro dicti sui despotatus adepcione et ⁽ⁱ⁾acquisicione apponatur⁽ⁱ⁾.

(1) The rights were bought from Louis of Anjou (1386) cf. Luttrell, 232, pp. 245-46.
(a) Followed by an unreadable word, maybe a numeral, septima [?]. Thus may be the date has to be corrected .
(b) In the ms. only as... os.
(c) In the ms. only as g...ndis.
(d) Lacuna of two words, only a few letters are readable: an...eien...
(e) Lacuna of one word, only readable... is , perhaps also nostris.
(f) In the ms. only as p...stodi...
(g) In the ms. only as Smir...
(h) In the ms. only as respons... nib...
(i) In the ms. only as acqu... cione appona... , then the text ends abruptly.

first adaptation 18.07.2022 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 18.07.2022 /
status: proofread /
for any comments: send me an e-mail Juergen.Sarnowsky@uni-hamburg.de (Jürgen Sarnowsky)

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