1421.03.10.

10 March, 1422
Master Antoni Fluvia to Leonard Kretiko, the first of the citizens of Katagru: He has built the monastery Taksiarche Michael the Kombioti, for the salvation of his soul, and therefore he demands from the order to be freed from taxes and wants to come into possession of all mobile and immobile property owned by the monks of his monastery, in case of their death. Master Antoni Fluvia grants these privileges on condition that all silver, all gold, and all precious stones and vases, that had belonged to the late monk and that were found in the night after his death should belong exclusively to the order. The monks were to be buried on the grounds of the monastery, and their superiors (or someone else) had to report the death to the castellan or to the headmaster or the first of the castellania, the same day. - NLM Arch. 346, fol. 167v. Register. - Z. N. Tsirpanlis (Ed.), Anekdota eggrapha gia te Rodo kai te Noties Sporades apo to archeio to Ioanniton Ippoton [Unpublished Documents concerning Rhodes and the South-East Aegean Islands from the Archives of the Order of St. John], vol. 1: 1421-1453 (Rhodes, 1995), no.5, pp. 223-24.

Frater Anthonius Fluvian et cetera, dilecto in Christo nobis Leonardo Critico, protho nostre castellanie de Cathagro, salutem et sincere dilectionis affectum.

Tue devocionis exposcunt merita, ut ad quecumque tibi grata et rationabilia descendamus, ut imposterum ferventior efficiaris ad nobis et nostre Religioni famulandum.

Cum vero sit, quod, cum quoddam monasterium, cuius nomen nuncupatur Sanctus Michael de Cambeodi, in dicta nostra castellania per te fuerit edificatum pro salute anime tue, et ipsum monasterium et callogeros ibidem existentes desideras effici liberos de bonis rebus, mobilibus et inmobilibus, calogerorum ibi decendentium, divino cultui famulancium, nos tui[s] precibus motus [leg. moti], tenore presentium, volumus, decernimus et mandamus de nostra certa scientia et gratia speciali, non obstante aliqua consuetudine(a) in contrarium faciente, quod bona, mobilia sive inmobilia, ipsorum callogerorum morientium debeant esse et pertinere ipsi monasterio; hoc tamen nichilominus reservato, quod si aliqua (b) quantitas argenti, auri, jocalium vel vaxalamenta preciosa post mortem ipsorum reperiantur in ipso monasterio, debeant illa nobis et successoribus nostris pertinere, non obstante gratia premissa.

Et quod corpora ipsorum callogerorum ibidem morientium debeant in dicto monasterio sepeliri, et post ecclesiasticam sepulturam eadem die per abbatem seu rectorem ipsius monasterii, vel eius nuncium, ipsius defuncti vel defunctorum callogerorum notificacio(c) fieri debeant castellano prefate nostre castellanie, vel motis(1) et protho ipsius loci.

Mandantes universis et singulis fratribus et cetera.

In cuius rei testimonium bulla nostra est appensa.

Datum Rodi die Xma mensis Marcii [M]IIIICXXI.

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(a) First there was written constitutione , but then this was corrected.
(b) First there was written aliquod.
(c) First this word was written and than crossed out: et o.
(1) Obviously omotis (=omotes , or, if he means more than one omotais ). The most possible is that the writer, who did not understand the greek word, transcribed it us he heard it: motes . For the word and its meaning see Tsirpanlis, H Rodos , pp. 236.


first adaptation 10.10.2004 Manuela Plener / revised 02.12.2008 Jürgen Sarnowsky /
status: proofread /
for any comments: send me an e-mail Juergen.Sarnowsky@uni-hamburg.de  (Jürgen Sarnowsky)


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