HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1517
1517-1532. s. l.
John Žák, administrator of the Prague archbishopric, confirms the inserted document of 17.IX.1156 at the request of John of Rosenberg (Rozenberg), grand prior of the Order of St. John in Bohemia, Silesia, etc. (Regensburg - 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 village 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, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
10 February 1517. [Rhodes].
Fr. Thomas Newport to Cardinal Wolsey [?]: By a boat from Damiata they have been informed that on the 18th [...], the Turk and the Sultan commenced war before Cairo, where the Egyptians were put to flight. The Mongarbini would not permit the Sultan to enter Cairo, and took part with the Turks. The Sultan has fled towards Sait to Heliopolis, which commands the Nile. After a second defeat by the Turks they report that he has gone to Sidon to seek help from the Sophi. The Turks have slain many Mameluks and 40,000 of the common people. The roads are full with human blood. The governor appointed by him in Damiata has licensed all merchants to come and go, except the Rhodians. The knights, with their fleet of seventeen ships, are expecting the transit of the Turkish fleet, which had assaulted them 5 February, but without any success. - Original paper, damaged by fire, signed. (London, British Library, Ms. Cotton Otho C IX, fol. 42r-v / Letters and Papers, Foreign an Domestic, 2: 1515-1518, ed. J. S. Brewer, 2, 1864, 2898, S. 935)
13 February, 1517. Złotoryja.
Fabian Stobner, appointed judge (gesatzter richter), and the sworn jurors (geschworne scheppen) of Złotoryja (Goltperg) testify that Melchior Kretschmer ceded to the local Hospitallers his fish tank (helder) in form of the so-called pittance (piadanz), 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, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
30 April, 1517. Strakonice.
John of Rosenberg(Roznberk) at Strakonice (Strakonicz), the master of the Bohemian priory of the Hospitallers, John 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 Margareta may keep and from which she is to pay 8 groat (grossuow) and 4 pence (penieze) on St. James Day. TIn addition, she is obliged to pay the so-called market fee (tržné') on Candlemas (February 2) and the so-called duty upon cloven-footed beasts (paznehtní) on Shrovetide. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 2500 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/2500/charter / translation: DeepL, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
19 August, 1517. [Rhodes].
Grand Master Fr. Fabrizio del Carretto to King Henry VIII.: Selim has prevented all news coming from Syria and Egypt. Merchants from Crete are detained. He has destroyed the Mameluks furnishing his fleet at Alexandria and the mouths of the Nile, and at Byzantium and Gallipoli. They have heard nothing of the Sophi. He is still in the city of Taurus, Mesopotamia. The Sultan has appointed Chersepolus, his sister's husband, to the command of an army to watch the foot of the mountain Amanus, and oppose the Sophi. Chersepolus is since dead. Requests the King's aid. Asks that fr. Thomas Docray may come to Rhodes. - Original paper, damaged by fire. (London, British Library, Ms. Cotton Otho C IX, fol. 43r-v / Letters and Papers, Foreign an Domestic, 2: 1515-1518, 2, ed. J. S. Brewer, 1864, 2, 3607, S. 1144)
20 August, 1517. [Rhodes].
Fr. William Darrell to King Henry VIII.: have received his letter on Fr. John Ranson, Prior of Kilmainham, to which will gladly yield obedience. - Original paper, damaged by fire. (London, British Library, Ms. Cotton Otho C IX 35, fol. 44r-v / Letters and Papers, Foreign an Domestic, 2: 1515-1518, 2, ed. J. S. Brewer, 1864, 3611, S. 1517)
20 August, 1517. [Rhodes].
Grand Master Fr. Fabrizio del Carretto to King Henry VIII.: Turkish threat, armaments. - Original paper, damaged by fire. (London, British Library, Ms. Cotton Otho C IX, fol. 45r-v)
23 September, 1517.Rhodes.
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 Hertwig, procurators of the Bohemian priory, 900 Hungarian gld., of which 600 gld. are for the regular fee 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/27811/charter / translation: DeepL, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
26 September, 1517. Rhodes.
Brother Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes, on the complaint of Nicholas Seidlitz, Preceptor of Tyniec (Tincz), and Nicholas Hertwig, Preceptor of Zittau, procurators of the Bohemian Priory of John of Rosenberg, 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, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
26 September, 1517. Rhodes.
Brother Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes re-grant and confirm to John of Rosenberg (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 Schwamberg (Scuamberg) and other of his predecessors, and order him to pay an annual fee of 100 ducats and always on St. John's Day another 50 ducats to cover the debt of the Priory to the Order's treasury. They reserve for themselves the disposal of one or more commanderies (bailiwicks) vacated in each year by the death of the preceptors, allow him to keep one commandery (bailiwick) 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, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
28 September, 1517. Rhodes.
Brother Fabricius de Carretto, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, and the Convent of Rhodes, at the request of John of Rosenberg (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; of Lobkowicz) 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 Rosenberg, 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, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
22 October, 1517. Vienna.
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 John of Rosenberg. (CZ State Archives - Maltézští rytíři - české velkopřevorství, no. 1497 / https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/1497/charter / translation: DeepL, corr. Petr Hrachovec)
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