This charter preserves an early and remarkable record of the Hospitallers’ expanding landed interests in and around Paris, while vividly expressing the fusion of pilgrimage, devotion, and formal religious commitment in the twelfth century.
In 1176, Maurice de Sully, Bishop of Paris, confirmed the donation of a house near the Petit-Pont in Paris and several vineyards made by Stephen of Meudon and his wife Lucy, who set out for Jerusalem “causa visitandi sepulcrum”.