Record of a sale

Translated letter:

In the name of the Lord.  I Bernard Sendred am the seller to you count Ramon and to Elisabeth your wife.  By this writing of my sale, I sell to you that castrum of Tamarit with all boundaries adjacent to it, sloping or flat, cultivated or abandoned, and everything that is there that I have or ought to have, which I have in the county of Barcelona, in the boundary of Tarragona.  Everything mentioned that came to me by possession/seizure (aprisionem) or by appointment (condireccionem) or by any authority.  That village/castle with all the afore-mentioned is delimited thus:  in the northwest at the boundary of the castle of Ullastrell (Iuvastrello), in the east at the boundary of Berano, in the south at the river of the sea, in the west at the city of Tarragona.  As much as these four boundaries enclose and the limits surround, I sell you all those already mentioned completely together with their exits and returns/entrances at the agreed price of three hundred and eight ounces of Saragossan gold legally weighed, the price that you, the buyers gave me, and it is made known.  Indeed, all the aforesaid, which I sell you, I hand over by my right into your rule and power with everything that pertains to that castrum.  Which, if I or any person of either sex should oppose this sale to break it, let him or me pay you all the aforesaid double with all appreciation; and afterwards let this sale remain stable now and for all time.  This sale was made on the kalends of March in the 18th year of the reign of king Henry.  Si+gn of Bernard Sendred.  I who made this sale and asked witnesses to confirm it.  Si+gn of Gondeball of Besora.  Si+gn of Mir Gifre.  Si+gn of Bernard Gilmir.  Si+gn of Bernard Amati.  Si+gn of Arluin, priest, who wrote this on the day and year noted above.

Original letter:

In nomine Domini.  Ego Bernardus Sendredi venditor sum vobis, Raimundo, comiti, et Helisabet, uxori tue.  Per hanc scripturam vendicionis mee vendo vobis ipsum castrum de Tamarit cum omnibus terminis eius vel aiacenciis, pronum vel planum, cultum vel heremum, et omnia que ibi est et habeo vel habere debeo, quod habeo in comitatu Barchinonensi, in termino de Terragona.  Advenit mihi per aprisionem omnia iam dicta vel per condireccionem sive per ullasque voces.  Affrontat ipsum castrum cum ea omnia iam dicta:  de circio in termino castri de Iuvastrello, et de oriente in termine de Berano, de meridie in flumine maris, de occiduo in civitate Terragonensi.  Quantum iste quatuor affrontaciones includunt et termini ambiunt, sic vendo vobis ea omnia iam dicta ab integre simul cum exiis vel regressiis earum in aderato precio tercentas et uncias VIII de auro Saraguçano legitime pensatas quod vos, emptores, precium mihi dedistis, et est manifestum.  Quem, vero, predicta omnia, que vobis vendo, de meo iure in vestrum trado dominium et potestatem ab omnibus que castro illi pertinent.  Quod, si ego venditor, aut aliquis homo, utriusque sexus, qui contra hanc vendicione venero aut venerit ad inrumpendum, componat aut componam vobis predicta omnia in duplum ad omni sua inmelioracione; et postmodum hec vendicio firma maneat modo vel omnique tempore.  Facta ista vendicione kalendas marcii anno XVIII regni Henrici, regis.  Sig+num Bernardi Sendredi.  Ego qui ista vendicione feci et firmavi et testes firmari rogavi.  Sig+num Gondeballus Bisorensis.  Sig+num Mir Gifre.  Sig+num Bernardus Gilmir.  Sig+num Bernardus Amati.  Sig+num Arluinus, sacer, qui hoc scripsit die et anno quo supra.

Historical context:

Bernard Sendred records a sale he made to the count and countess.  The king by whom the document is dated is Henry I of France.  A castrum is an administrative unit with a castle at the center.

Printed source:

Liber Feudorum Maior (LFM), ed. Francisco Miquel Rosell, (Barcelona, 1945), 1.219-20 #212.

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