1270.09.12.

12 September, 1270.
On his deathbed, the knight Pierre de Milice makes known that he has donated his body to the Templars for burial on their cemetary at St. Gilles. Lambert, lieutenant of Roncelin provincial master of the Templars in the Provence, confirms the agreement about the sepulture. - NLM, Arch. 18, no. 7. Original parchment, carta partita; letters of the alphabete from A to L on the left margin of the charter; notary instrument formed by three concentric lozenges, looking like two intertwined eights. - Edition in Documents, ed. Delaville, pp. 39-41 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 346, pp. 25-26, 79.

Notum sit omnibus quod anno domini MCCLXX, scilicet II idus Septembris, existentibus dominis civitatis Avinionensis, domino Alfonso, Dei gratia comite Tholose et marcione Provincie, et domino Karolo, eadem gratia comite et marchione Provincie et comite Fulcalquerii(1), ego Petrus de Militia, eger corpore, in bona mentis mee valitudine existens, relinquo, offero et dono tibi fratri Lamberto, Templario et camerario domus militiae Templi Sancti Egidii, presenti et recipienti nomine dicte domus, corpud meum sepeliendum tempore mortis mee in cimiterio dicte domus, ponendo manus meas infras manus tuas.

Et, ne contra hoc veniam aliqua ratione vel jure, bona fide et sine dolo per sollempnem stipulationem tibi promitto et super sancte Dei Evangelia a me corporaliter tacta tibi juro, renuncians in predictis omni juri omnique rationi quo vel qua contra venire possem.

Et ego frater Lambertus predictus, in nomine Domini nostri Jehsu Christi et gloriose beate Marie, matris ejusdem, et nomine domini Roncelini, magistri domorum militie Templi in Provincia(2), et pro ipso te dictum Petrum de Militia per nauum tuarum apprehensione recipio in omnibus bonis temporalibus et spiritualibus dicte domus, et corpus tuum tempore mortis tue sollempniter sepeliendum in cimiterio dicte domus.

Factum fuit hoc Avinione in stari dicti Petri de Militia.

Testes affuerunt presentes: Dominus Johannes, prior domus sancti Benedicti. - Bertranno de Cavismontibus. - Frater Guillaume Clarius de Mari, et frater Petrus Garnerius, Templarii. - Raimundus Clarius.

Et ego Petrus Carreria, Avinionensis notarius, qui predictus omnibus presens interfui, et mandato dictarum partium hanc certam scripsi, bullavi et signavi.

(1) Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily.
(2) Roscelin de Fos.

first adaptation 16.09.2010 Jürgen Sarnowsky / revised 13.08.2022 /
first draft, not proofread /
for any comments: send me an e-mail Juergen.Sarnowsky@uni-hamburg.de (Jürgen Sarnowsky)


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