Fourpenny Retirement: the Yorkshire Templars in the Fourteenth Century

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
Rosalind Hill
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Forest Law ◽  
Edward I

It is now generally accepted that the Order of Templars was destroyed not because of its heresy but because of its wealth. Having outlived its usefulness in the Holy Land, it fell a victim to the forces of financial, jealousy, not entirely unprovoked. Although in England the Order did not hold such an influential position as it did in France, it was nevertheless wealthy and very highly privileged. Edward I, himself a crusader, had in 1290 renewed and amplified a charter of Henry III which exempted the Templars from almost every kind of secular taxation, in addition to guaranteeing such valuable rights and immunities as they already held by authority of the Pope. On their English lands they enjoyed the rights of sac and soc, with all the appurtenances of a private court, and in addition they were quit of scot and geld, feudal aids, tallage and lastage and carucage, and of all tolls, charges, and payments connected with fairs throughout the land. They paid no tax on the export of wool, which their northern estates produced in abundance; in 1390 it was claimed that this privilege, in the counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire alone, accounted for more than half the income of the London Temple. They were free of demands for watch and ward, castle-guard, and requisitions for building the King’s works. They were exempt too from forest law, and could create assarts at pleasure; nor need they cut the claws of their dogs. Moreover, they could claim the forfeits, fines, and chattels of all felons taken upon their lands, even when these had been judged in the King’s court.

Simon de Beaulieu and ‘Clericis Laicos’

Traditio ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
Jo Ann McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
Edward I

Boniface VIII entered his pontificate with a single great ambition, to which he reverted at every opportunity during the troubled years of his reign. Repeatedly, he called for a new crusade to restore the foothold lost to Christendom in the Holy Land only four years before his accession. To accomplish this revitalization of the ancient ideal of the papacy, he persistently sought to use his authority to make himself arbiter of an overall European peace. The indispensable requirement in this plan was the establishment of some agreement between Edward I of England and Philip IV of France, whose confrontation in Aquitaine was steadily moving toward an open war which would involve their various allies throughout Europe. Accordingly, within two months of his election, Boniface appointed legates to both countries to negotiate a peace.

scholarly journals The Disappearance of an Author and the Emergence of a Genre: Niccolò da Poggibonsi and Pilgrimage Guidebooks between Manuscript and Print*

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Blair Moore
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Illustrated Manuscripts ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
Historical Origins

While the anonymous Viaggio da Venetia al Sancto Sepolchro et al Monte Sinai, first published in Venice in 1518, was the most popular Holy Land guidebook in Renaissance Italy, the historical origins of the book have never been fully understood. From four illustrated versions of an earlier manuscript guide, the Libro d’Oltramare (1346–50), one can hypothesize about both the text and its author. The ultimate prototype for the Viaggio da Venetia was very likely one or more of these illustrated manuscripts, and the original author of both the text and illustrations was the Franciscan pilgrim Niccolò da Poggibonsi. Despite the eventual erosion of his name from the printed versions of the guidebook, the assertiveness and originality of the author parallels the production of other vernacular literature in mid-fourteenth-century Italy. Unlike Latin guidebooks of previous centuries, the intent to include illustrations that re-create the pilgrimage experience and the unprecedented descriptiveness of the prose together suggest that the book can be considered the foundational text for the genre of the illustrated pilgrimage guidebook.

scholarly journals XXXI. Extract from a Record explanatory of Grants by Henry II. and Edward I. to certain Ostmen in Waterford of the privilege of “Lex Anglicorum in Hibernia.”

Archaeologia ◽  
1858 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-498
Author(s):  
Thomas Phillipps
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social Condition ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Record ◽  
Edward I

The original record, from which the Extract that follows was taken, has been preserved in the Bermingham Tower, Dublin. It contains the Pleas of the Crown and Gaol Delivery at Waterford, before John Wogan, Justiciary of Ireland, on Thursday the morrow of St. Matthias the Apostle (February 25), in the fourth year of the reign of Edward II. (1311), and will be seen to be somewhat illustrative of the social condition of the inhabitants of that part of Ireland at the time of the invasion by Henry II. and also at the commencement of the fourteenth century. The Ostmen mentioned in it were the descendants of the Norwegians, commonly spoken of as Danes, who had many years before formed permanent settlements on the coasts; as to whose history Worsaae's volume on the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland may be consulted with advantage. A few preliminary observations may serve to render the document more readily intelligible.

St James in Tuscany: The Opera di San Jacopo of Pistoia and Pilgrimage to Compostela

1999 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIANA WEBB
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Principal Feature ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
To Come

Pilgrimage is universally recognised by historians as a principal feature of medieval popular religion, if by ‘popular’ we mean something in which the ordinary laity fully participated. While we can be confident of the fact of this participation, accurate measures of its scale are less easy to come by, while putting names to the thousands of humble participants is less easy still. Narrative sources, such as chronicles and hagiographies, tend to describe the pilgrimages of the great and good (and also of the not so good), and even when, especially in and after the fourteenth century, pilgrims themselves begin to leave accounts of their journeys for their own satisfaction, or for the edification and information of others, they can be seen, almost by definition, as standing somewhat apart from the nameless masses because they are either literate themselves, or addressing a literate pilgrimage ‘public’.The task of putting not merely names, but faces, to ‘ordinary’ pilgrims is not quite hopeless, however, although the materials which make it possible vary in their availability and abundance at different times and places. Use has been made of monastic cartularies to trace at least fragments of the biographies and family histories of members of the knightly classes whose participation in pilgrimage, it has been argued, helped to foster the crusading movement. A little later, the records of English royal government reveal the names of numerous pilgrims who sought royal licence and safe-conduct for their travels, registered the appointment of attorneys for the duration of their absence, or, as witnesses at inquisitions post mortem, remembered births and deaths by the year in which they themselves, or kin or friends, went to the Holy Land, to Canterbury, Compostela or elsewhere. Some at least of these names are those of men (and women) who occur elsewhere in surviving records and about whose lives and connections it is therefore possible to know at least a little. From all over Christendom, too, there are wills, made by intending pilgrims as a necessary part of their preparations.

Fictions of Espionage

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-215
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Yeager
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Popular View ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Land Using ◽  
Travel Accounts

This chapter explores the uses of pilgrimage, crusading, and Muslim scripture in the creation of auctoritas using fourteenth-century travel accounts of Jerusalem. Medieval travellers contended with a popular view which held their writing suspect, as seen in Chaucer’s satire of the pilgrim’s tendency to curiositas. I show that some pre-modern travel writers negotiated the pitfalls of curiositas and even used it to their advantage. In their pilgrim accounts, writers like Simon Simeonis and Thomas Brygg strove to create models of their own religious, political, or social aspirations through their associations with the Holy Land. Using crusading tropes, appeals to the Bible, and even the Qur’an to negotiate the omnipresent cultural critique of pilgrimage, they fashioned an authoritative persona for writers whose exploits may have enjoyed some social utility at home. This study thus recontextualizes Chaucer’s critiques of travellers, and sheds new light on his pilgrim narrators.

Roles for Women in Colonial Fantasies of Fourteenth-Century France: Pierre Dubois and Philippe de Mézières

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Holy Land

A forceful statement of intention with regard to the European past and future of the Levant was in preparation in the kingdom of France in the later middle ages. The Norman lawyer Pierre Dubois and the royal advisor and diplomat Philippe de Mézières both wrote treatises, each about a century apart, in which they proposed plans for the reconquest of the Holy Land. Strikingly, both advised that women should play important roles. What these two strategists had to say about the place of women in future crusading conquests suggests that a new terre d’outremer resembled the colonial future much more than it did medieval fantasy or the high medieval past.

I The Hospitallers' Western Accounts, 1373/4 and 1374/5

1990 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Anthony Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Saint John ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Military ◽  
Edward I

The military order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem had a Treasurer from the time of its early years in the mid-twelfth century; by 1268 he was employing two scribes at the Convent, the order's headquarters in Syria. A statute of 1283 provided for a monthly computum or audit to be held by the Master and a group of senior brethren. Fr Joseph Chauncey, who was Treasurer for some twentyfive years, was so competent that Edward I made him Treasurer of England in 1273. At Rhodes during the fourteenth century the Treasury apparently kept no budget showing the overall state of the Hospital's finances, though by about 1478 there was a lengthy list of the incomes of the Western priories and commanderies, of receipts from Rhodes and Cyprus, and of the Convent's expenses in the East. The dues or responsiones from the rich Commandery of Cyprus were received by the Treasurer at Rhodes and the Master issued a quittance for them. The Master had separate incomes of his own, and by 1365 these were being managed by the Seneschal of his household; the Master gave a receipt for them.

Marino Sanudo Torsello and the Lost Crusade: Lobbying in the Fourteenth Century The Alexander Prize Essay

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
C. J. Tyerman
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cross ◽  
John Xxii ◽  
Prize Essay

At Avignon on 24 September 1321, a wealthy, middle-aged, well-connected and widely travelled Venetian merchant, Marino Sanudo, called Torsello, presented to Pope John XXII a book which he had been composing over the previous fifteen years, the Liber Secretorum (or Secreta) Fidelium Crucis, the book of the secrets of the faithful of the Cross. The full title explained the subject matter: the protection of the faithful, the conversion and destruction of the infidel and the acquisition and retention of the Holy Land in peace and security.

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