HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1390

12 April, 1390. Rhodes.
Fr. Pierre de Culan, marshal and lieutenantof the master on Rhodes, and the convent to the Master Fr. Juan Fernández de Herédia and the princes and lords of Europe: informs about the situation of the order and about Smyrna. They ask for money and every kind of support, maybe at the expense of the properties of the order. They empower the Admiral Fr. Palamedo di Giovanni and Fr Renaud de Giresme, the Prior of Francia. (NLM Arch. 324, fol. 187r-188v, register / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 44, p. 68-70)

19 April, 1390. Avignon.
Pope Clement VII grants an indulgence for the defence of Smyrna and the protection of the Latin territories in the Eastern Mediterranean, to be collected by the Hospitallers. (NLM Arch. 11, 10, in a letter of indulgence for a citizen of Paris, in notarial vidimus of 18 August, 1390 [Datum et actum Avinione in domo prefati Hospitalis anno incarnationis domini millesimo trecentesimo nonagesimo [...] die vero 18a mensis Augusti], parchment, notarial instrument / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 45, p. 70-71)

30 Juni, 1390. Avignon.
Master Fr. Juan Fernández de Herédia to the Prior of Auvergne, Fr. Robert de Chateauneuf [and other officials]: informs him about the situation of the Convent and of Smyrna; invitation to an assembly in Avignon for 30 August. (NLM Arch. 324, fol. 57v-58r, register / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 46, pp. 71-72)

13 Juli, 1390. Avignon.
Master Fr. Juan Fernández de Herédia to the Greek papasJohannis: appoints him to be scribe or notary of the town of Smyrna for lifetime. (NLM Arch. 324, fol. 142r, register / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 47, p. 72)

17 September, 1390. Avignon.
Pope Clement VII confirms the decisions of an assembly of the Hospitallers at Avignon concerning e.g. the payments of the Western and Eastern houses of the order (10.000 and 1.200 fl) to support the Convent and Smyrna. (NLM Arch. 325, fol. 119r-120v, register / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 48, p. 72-73)

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