In CARVING UP CRUSADERS: THE EARLY IBELINS AND RAMLAS, HANS EBERHARD MAYER University of Kiel [Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hans E. Mayer, and R.C. Smail, eds., Outremer: Studies in the History of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem Presented to Joshua Prawer, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 1982. https://archive.org/details/kedar-mayer-smail-outremer/page/120/mod... opensource] argues against Count W.H. Riidt de Collenberg's 1965 contention that Barisan 'the Old', Constable of Jaffa was dead by the end of September 1145.
He says "this is easy to refute. Riidt de Collenberg deduced from RRH Regesta Regni Hierosolymitani, an 1893 history of the Crusades by Reinhold Röhricht no. 135 that Barisan-le-Vieux was dead by the end of September 1145. In this charter Patriarch William I of Jerusalem, who died on 27 September 1145,‘ confirmed the statutes of the hospital of the Saviour founded by abbot Hugh of St. Mary of the Valley of Josaphat with the help of a confraternity.
Nomina vero illorum, qui se primitus in hac confraternitate miserunt, sunt hec: domnus Balduinus rex primus et domnus Bernardus episcopus de Nazareth, Guillelmus de Buris, Guido de Miliaco, Goscelinus domnus de Tiberiade, domnus Balianus et ceteri plures, qui mortui sunt.
[But the names of those who first sent themselves into this fraternity are as follows: lord Balduinus the first king and lord Bernardus bishop of Nazareth, William of Buris, Guido de Miliacus, lord Goscelinus of Tiberias, lord Balianus, and many others who have died. SHARON 2025]
Combining the full printed version with Réhricht’s abstract [But see **footnote by Sharon Doubell 2025 below], Riidt de Collenberg (p. 453) quoted this text in a fashion which never existed except in his own imagination:
Balduini I (Rex), Guillelmi de Buris, Guidonis de Miliaco, Joscelini de Tiberiadis, Baliani et aliorum benefactorum mortuorum et ceteri plures qui mortui sunt.
[Baldwin I (King), William of Buris, Guidon of Miliacus, Joscelinus of Tiberias, Balian and other dead benefactors and many others who have died. SHARON 2025]
By his insertion of the phrase et aliorum benefactorum mortuorum he was led to believe that all benefactors named in the confirmation by Patriarch William were dead, when William issued his charter some time during his term of office (after 27 September 1130—27 September 1145). In fact, because he assumed all benefactors to have been dead at the time of issue, he dated RRH no. 135 in the early 1140s, because William of Buris was still alive in early 1141 (RRH no. 201). If all benefactors listed were dead by 1145, this applied also to the domnus Balianus who is no doubt Barisan-le-Vieux. But it is this assumption by Riidt de Collenberg which is wrong, and to which he was led by doubling the word mortuus. The only time it occurs is in the phrase et ceteri plures, qui mortui sunt. The relative clause clearly does not apply to all benefactors, but only to the ceteri plures whose names were no longer known because they had joined the confraternity in its early days but were long since deceased. This difficulty removed, we regain the old familiar Barisan-le-Vieux who was in the Holy Land before 1115 and was constable of Jaffa by this year (RRH no. 80), represented Jaffa at the Council of Nablus in 1120,° staked a claim together with Hugh of Jaffa in 1123 and 1126 for adding Ascalon to the county,° held fiefs from Hugh of Jaffa outside the county in 1127 which later reverted to the crown,’ returned his fiefs in the county to the count when he led the Jaffa vassals into the king’s camp during Hugh’s revolt in 1134.5 was enfeoffed in 1141 with the name-giving castle of Ibelin, took part in the great war council at Acre in 1148° and is mentioned alive for the last time in RRH no. 262 of early 1150."
- * Sharon Doubell 2025 footnote: This is the version that REINHOLD ROHRICHT uses, though: It doesn't tally with Mayer's version. Perhaps the error was in RR? We don't seem to have an original copy to view, which perhaps Mayer did. The addition of a comma after Balian would make all the difference to the meaning.
https://archive.org/details/registaregnihier00rhuoft/page/n41/mode/...
Guillelmus I, patriarcha Hierosolymitanus, constitutionem hospitalis B. Mariae de valle Josaphat tempore Gibelini patriarchae, Balduini I regis et consensu Hugonis abbatis factam necnon confraternitatem Balduini I regis, Bernardi, episcopi Nazareni, Guillelmi de Buris, Guidonis de Miliaco, Goscelini, domini de Tiberiade, Baliani et aliorum benefactorum mortuorum sigillo sancit et confirmat. Facundus, prior S. Mariae de Latina,vidit et sigillum apposuit (Delaborde, p. 47 — 49, No. 1 9).
William I, patriarch of Jerusalem,1) sanctifies and confirms with the seal of the constitution of the hospital of B. Maria de Valle Josaphat, made in the time of the Ghibelline patriarch, King Baldwin I, and with the consent of Hugh the abbot, as well as the confraternity of King Baldwin I, Bernard, bishop of Nazareth, William of Buris, Guidon de Miliacus, Goscelin, Lord of Tiberias, Balian and other dead benefactors. Facundus, prior of St. Mary of Latina, saw and affixed the seal (Delaborde, p. 47 - 49, No. 1 9).
