Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.7.1b
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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 soldiers provided in service to the King by each
barony, county, see, or other unit.
Text
Quartus principatus est
Ierosolymitanus, de quo supra dictum est. Servibant autem regi: Ierusalem, de militibus XLI
et armigeris vC; Baroniae de Iopen, Ascalona, Rama, Maribel, et Ibelyn, de militibus centum;
Baronia principatus Galileae, de militibus centum; Dominium Montis Regalis, de militibus LX;
Comitatus Iocellini, de militibus XXIV; Neapolis, de militibus LXXXV et armigeris XXX;
Ptolomayda, de militibus LXXX et armigeris quingentis; Tyrus, de militibus XXIII et
armigeris centum; Patriarcha, de armigeris vC; Capitulum Sepulchri, de armigeris V;
Iosaphat, de armigeris CL; Mons Syon, de armigeris CL; Templum Domini, de armigeris CL;
Latina, de armigeris L; Episcopus Tabariae, de armigeris C; Abbas montis Tabor, de armigeris
C; Caesarea, de armigeris L; Episcopus Bethlehem, de armigeris CC;
Ybelyn et Mirabel, de armigeris C; Episcopus Sancti Georgy, de armigeris CC; Arsur, de
armigeris L; Episcopus Sabadoit, de armigeris L; Episcopus Ptolomensis, de armigeris CL;
Episcopus Sancti Abraham, de armigeris L; Archepiscopus Tyri, de armigeris CL;
Archiepiscopus Nazareth, de armigeris L; Episcopus Sydonis, de armigeris L; Archiepiscopus
Caesarae, de armigeris L; Asclona, de armigeris C; Leluon, de
armigeris C; Leyrim, de armigeris XXV; Cayphas, de armigeris L; Tabaria, de armigeris CC.
Summa: milites DXVIII, armigeri IV millia DCCLXXV. Cur vero ad regni tutela barones tam
tenue inservirent, posset aliquis rationabiliter admirari. Sed quia reges exigunt iura regni
sine defectu, imo potius cum augmento, cautum fuit, ut barones regi ad talia se
submitterent, ut requirenti regi in necessitatis articulo, in pluri possent succurrere.
Ducebant praeterea barones gratis, ultra ea quae taxata praemisimus, quando cum rege
procedebant ad bella, decentem, iuxta possibilitatem ac statum suum, armatorum militum
comitivam.
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Textual Note
Ed. Bongars 1611Corrigenda Note
Minor corr. (punctuation, spelling)Translation
The fourth principality
is Jerusalem, which is discussed above. They serve the King as follows: Jerusalem, 41
knights and 500 squires; the barony of Iope, Ascalon, Rama, Mirabel, and Ibelyn, 100
knights; the barony of the principality of Galilee, 100 knights; the lordship of Mount
Royal, 60 knights; the county of Iocellinus, 24 knights; Neapolis, 85 knights and 300
squires; Ptolemaÿs, 80 knights and 50 squires; Tyre, 28 knights and 100 squires; the
Patriarchate, 500 squires; the Chapter of the Sepulchre, five squires; Josaphat, 150
squires; Mount Syon, 150 squires; the Temple of the Lord, 150 squires; Latina, 50 squires;
the Bishop of Tabaria, 100 squires; the Abbot of Mount Tabor, 100 squires; Caesarea, 50
squires; the Bishop of Bethlehem, 200 squires; Ybelin and Mirabel, 100 squires; the Bishop
of Saint George, 200 squires; Arsur, 50 squires; the Bishop of Sabadoit, 100 squires; the
Bishop of Acre, 150 squires; the Bishop of Saint Abraham, 50 squires; the Archbishop of
Tyre, 150 squires; the Archbishop of Nazareth, 50 squires; the Bishop of Sydon, 50 squires;
the Archbishop of Caesarea, 50 squires; Ascalon, 100 squires; Leluon, 100 squires; Leyrim,
25 squires; Cayphas, 50 squires; Tabaria, 200 squires. Total: 528 knights, 4,775 squires.
Anyone could reasonably wonder why the barons were such dedicated servants to the safety of
the kingdom. But because the Kings made the laws of the kingdom not by reducing but rather
by increasing, it was ensured that the barons submitted to the King in such matters, so that
they could help the King at a time of crisis when he asked, or in many (things). In
particular, beyond what we have listed before, the barons freely led a decent body of armed
soldiers according to their ability and status whenever they went to war with the King.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Lock 2011Works 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: 3.7.1b, p: 174.
- 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.
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