1448.03.28.

28 March, 1448.
Master Fr. Jean de Lastic and the Convent authorize Fr. Michele de Castellacio, visitator of Germany etc., to appoint several priors in Low Germany and one 'bailiff by chapter' or Prior in Frisia 'as was the custom there',(1) and to admit four or five sons of noblemen from these regions as knights of the Order. - NLM, Arch. 361, fol. 205v. Register = liber bullarum 1447-1449 - J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 45.

Frater Johannes de Lastico Dei gracia etc. et nos conventus Rhodi domus eiusdem, religioso in Christo nobis precarissimo fratri Michaeli d'Castellario utriusque iuris doctori iudicique appellationis nostre urbis Rhodi ac visitatori nostrorum prioratuum Alamanie, Hungarie et Boemie nuper ordinato, salutem in Domino, et diligentiam in comissis.

Non discedentes in quoquam a mandato generali de dicta visitacione, prioratuum prefatorum vobis dato, nichilominus considerantes esse valde necessarium et expediens particulariter in Alamania Bassa et Frisia rebus nostris nostreque religionis providere, ex nostra certa sciencia ac matura prius deliberatione habita, consentientibus ad hoc religiosis in Christo nobis carissimis fratribus venerabilis lingue Alamanie in nostro conventu residentibus, tenore presencium vobis comitimus licenciamque atque facultatem damus, ut auctoritate nostra in dicta Alamania Bassa possitis creare unum vel duos vel tres et plures si necessarium erunt, priores, et in Frisia unum baiulivum per capitulum sive priorem, sicut illic in Frisia fuit consuetum; item in illis partibus facere quatuor vel quinque filios nobilium virorum, si erunt ydonei, secundum formam stabilimentorum nostrorum bonorumque morum nostre religionis, fratres milites nostri ordinis, dumtamen dicti priores et baiulivus per capitulum, ac fratres milites per vos eligendi et faciendi promittant et iurent sollemniter quod erunt obedientes nobis et nostre religioni prefate, et solvent annuatim infallibiliter responsiones consuetas et alia onera imposita et imponenda rationabiliter nostro comuni thesauro sicut faciunt alii priores, preceptores et fratres nostre dicte religionis.

In cuius rei testimonium bulla nostra comunis plumbea presentibus est appensa.

Datum Rhodi in nostro conventu die XXVIII mensis Marcii anno ab incarnatione Domini nostri millesimo CCCC XLVIII, magisterii vero nostri magistri anno undecimo.

(1) With respect to the question if the Order really was accustomed to have a Prior of Frisia, it may be remarked that as early as 5 October 1240, the head of the preceptory of Burgsteinfurt already called himself: Frater Heinricus de Steinvordia, prior hospitalis beati Iohannis per dyocesem Traiectinam, in an agreement with the Count of Guelders on the market toll at Arnhem, with this legend on his seal: S.H.PRIORIS STEVERDIE [ET F]RISIE, cf. L. A. J. W. Sloet (ed.), Oorkondenboek der graafschappen Gelre en Zutfen, 's-Gravenhage 1872-1876, nr. 621, and H. Brugmans, K. Heeringa (ed.), Corpus sigillorum Neerlandicorum, 2 vols, 's-Gravenhage 1937-1940, nr. 375.


first adaptation 31.07.2022 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 31.07.2022 /
status: proofread /
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