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5 - The rights and duties of the Frankish settlers in Casale Imbert and Nova Villa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2010

Ronnie Ellenblum
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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In the previous chapter, I tried to show that one can rely on other details contained in documents in order to decide whether the reference is to a rural “castrum” in the European sense, a term which indicates a more complex pattern of settlement, or to a fortress plain and simple. If, for example, it can be shown that at the foot of a Frankish fortress there was a church, one can assume that there was a “burgus” there of a Christian community. A typical example is found in a confirmation issued by Pope Honorius II in 1128 for the property of the Chapter of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The pope confirms the Chapter's ownership of the “castellum” and of the Church of St. Lazarus, of the “castrum” and of the church of Mahomeria, and of the “castrum” and the church of “Castrum Feniculi” in the neighborhood of Caesarea. In two of the places – the castrum of Mahomeria and Castrum Feniculi – the reference is undoubtedly to parochial churches which served the settlers who lived there. In the third place, Bethania, the reference is perhaps to the Frankish church constructed over the tomb of St. Lazarus, although it is quite possible that this church too served parochial needs. “In episcopatu Jerosolimitano videlicet ecclesiam Beati Lazari cum castello et omnibus pertinentiis suis, castrum Maome cum ecclesia et omnibus pertinentiis suis; in episcopatu Cesaree Palestine, castrum Feniculi cum ecclesia et omnibus pertinentiis suis.”

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Print publication year: 1998

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