HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1517

1517-1532. s. l.
Jan Žák, administrator of the Prague archbishopric, confirms the inserted document of 17.IX.1156 at the request of Jan of Rožmberk, grand prior of the Order of St. John in Bohemia, Silesia, etc. (Rezno - Ratisbone), by which Frederick, Emperor of Rome, at the request of Prince Henry of Austria, confirms, like his father, King Conrad, to the Hospitallers the ownership of the villages of Zogelsdorf (Zokelestorp) and the forest of Mailberg (Mourberg), bequeathed to them by Chadold (Karholdus) [of Harras] and over which they had a dispute with his grandson Chadold the Younger (see No. 1244); whoever claims these estates will pay a fine of 100 pounds of gold, half of which will go to the chamber, half to the Hospitallers. Deed executed by notary Balthasar, son of John Hemmerleyn of Děčín (Tetschenn). (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 1245 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/1245/charter / translation: DeepL)

13 February, 1517. s. l.
Fabian Stobner, the town clerk, and the peasants of Zlotoryje (Goltperg) testify that Melichar Kretschmer ceded to the local Hospitallers his orchard, which he sold to them. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 336 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/336/charter / translation: DeepL)

30 April, 1517. Strakonicel.
Jan of Rožmberk (Roznberk) in Strakonice (Strakonicz), the master of the Bohemian priory of the Hospitallers, Jan of Lomnice (Lomnicze), the prior, and the convent in Strakonice issue a deed for her meat shop to the local townswoman Margareta (Rzaunkowa) at her request, lying below the shop of Martin the Butcher, towards the river and the house of Wenceslas Marek, which Marketa may keep and from which she is to pay 8 groat and 4 pence to St. James. The money is to be paid to the St. James's Church, the 'thorns' on the Feast of Trumpets and the 'claws' on Shrovetide. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 2500 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/2500/charter / translation: DeepL)

26 September, 1517. s. l.
Brother Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes, on the complaint of Nicholas Zedlitz, Preceptor of Tyniec (Tincz), and Nicholas Hertwig, Preceptor of Zittau, procurators of the Bohemian Priory of John of Rozmberk, order Christopher of Waldner (Waldener), Preceptor of Torleseen in the German Priory, to return within 15 days the commanderies of Vienna, Fürstenfeld and Melling in the Bohemian Priory, which he holds illegally, and to appear in Rhodes within 9 months after this date and to answer personally for this and other offences under penalty of expulsion from the Order. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 1681 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/1681/charter / translation: DeepL)

26 September, 1517. s. l.
Brother Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes re-grant and confirm to John of Rosemberg (de Rosembergh) for life the Priory of the Order in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Poland and the Austrian lands with all the rights and pensions as held by John of Scuamberg and his predecessors, and order him to pay an annual fee of 100 ducats at St. John. They reserve to him the disposal of one or more offices released in each year by the death of the preceptors, allow him to keep one office released in addition to the four commanderies (chambers), forbid him to alienate anything from the property of the priory, etc. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 2570 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/2570/charter / translation: DeepL)

26 September, 1517. s. l.
Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes confirm that they have received from the preceptors Nicholas Seidlitz and Nicholas Hertvik, procurators of the Bohemian priory, 900 Hungarian gld., of which 600 gld. are for the regular salary and 300 gld. for the salary called arreragia for 6 years. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 2781 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/2871/charter / translation: DeepL)

28 September, 1517. s. l.
Brother Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes, at the request of John of Rožmberk (Rossemberch), Prior of the Bohemian Priory, and of the Provincial Chapter, and with the consent of the lieutenant of the Grand Bailiwick, etc. grant to Henry Popel (de Popull) a dispensation from the personal visit to Rhodes and the right of succession to the Bohemian priory upon the death or resignation of John of Rožmberk, order him to pay an annual fee of 100 ducats upon attaining the priory, not to alienate any of the properties of the priory, to request a certificate within a year after the succession, etc. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 2571 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/2571/charter / translation: DeepL)

22 October, 1517. s. l.
Maximilian, the Roman Emperor, confirms his cession of the manor and the castle of Mailberg (Marperg) to the Bohemian priory of the Hospitaller order of 23.III. 1504 (Augspurg) with all the reservations mentioned in this document and attributes the castle and the manor to the priory of Jan of Rožmberk. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 1497 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/1497/charter / translation: DeepL)

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