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Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.7.1a

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Context

Marino Sanudo the Elser of Torcello, from a wealthy and powerful Venetian family, was a statesman and geographer who spent much of his career from the late 13th century until his death in 1338 living and travelling abroad. He reached the Peloponnese and Aegean islands, Cyprus and Cilicia, Constantinople, the Levant, and Egypt, but also western and northern Europe. A learned and eloquent advocate for a new crusade, he wrote the voluminous Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross (Secreta fidelium Crucis), a strategic manual full of economic, military, and geographic detail as well as maps, and presented different versions of it to popes Clement V (in 1307) and John XXII (in 1321). This passage describes the organization of rule over the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Text

Ierosolymitarum regum explicata gloria de regni baronibus persequamur. Pro ipsius enim regni tutela, inter principes et barones, ut assolet, est divisum, qui terram sub rege custodirent ac defenderent, retenta regi parte digniori ac meliori: civitate scilicet sacra, Ierusalem, Neapoli, Ptolomayda, et Tyro, cum quibusdam oppidis et casalibus. Habet autem haec pars initium a rivo, qui fluit inter Biblium et Beritum; finem vero in solitudine quae est ultra Darum. Homines autem ligÿ regni fidelitate et sacramento, cum certo militum numero, regio servitio obligati fuerunt: comes videlicet Tripolitanus; dominus Beriti; dominus Sydonis; dominus Cayphae; dominus Caesareae; princeps Galileae, qui et dominus Tyberiadis; comes Iopen et Ascalonae; dominus Montis Regalis et totius terrae trans Iordanem; dominus Arsur; et dominus Ibelyn, cum quibusdam aliis; sed hii aliis praeminebant. 1

Textual Note

Ed. Bongars 1611

Corrigenda Note

Minor corr. (punctuation, spelling)

Translation

Let us go over the clear glory of the Kings of Jerusalem from the point of view of the barons of the kingdom. For the safety of the kingdom, as was typical, it was divided between princes and barons who guarded and defended the land under the King. The more important and better part was reserved for the King, namely, the Holy City of Jerusalem, Neapolis, Ptolemaÿs, and Tyre, along with certain other towns and castles. This part began at the river that flows between Byblos and Beirut and terminates in the desert beyond Darum. The liege men of the kingdom were obligated by faith and by oath to the service of the King with a certain number of soldiers, namely, the Count of Tripoli, the Lord of Beritus, the Lord of Sydon, the Lord of Caypha, the Lord of Caesarea, the Prince of Galilee, who was also the Lord of Tyberias, the Count of Iope and Ascalon, the Lord of Mount Royal and of all the land across the Jordan, the Lord of Arsur, and the Lord of Ibelyn with various others; but these were more important than the others. 2

Translation Note

Adapted from Lock 2011

Works Cited

  • 1 Marino Sanudo, Gesta Dei per Francos Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia 2: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis Super Terrae Sanctae Recuperatione et Conservatione, ed. Jacques Bongars (Hanover: Wechelian, 1611), bk: 3.7.1a, p: 173.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Marino Sanudo, Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, trans. Peter Lock, Crusade Texts in Translation 21 (London: Routledge, 2011), p: 274.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
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Joseph L. Rife, “Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.7.1a,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/239.

Bibliography:

Joseph L. Rife, “Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.7.1a.” In Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, edited by Joseph L. Rife., edited by Joseph L. Rife. Caesarea City and Port Exploration Project, 2023. Entry published June 30, 2023. https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/239.

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Entry Title: Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.7.1a

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  • Joseph L. Rife, general editor, Vanderbilt University
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