Appendix IV
Seals
The seal of the provincial master
In 1224 the provincial master was using a round seal (25 mm. in diameter) of black or dark-green wax, depicting a lamb and bearing the legend: S. PVINCIE ET ARAGONIS.(1) According to a bull issued by Innocent IV in 1251 it was customary for successive provincial masters to use the same seal.(2) A change had been made, however, when the province of Provence and certain parts of Spain was divided into two. The master of Provence contined to use a seal depicting a lamb,(3) but the seal of the Aragonese master William of Cardoona, although round (29 mm. indiameter) and of black or dark-green wax, depicted a knight on horseback, carrying a lance and shield, on which was a cross; it bore the legend: S. MINISTRI TEMPLI 1 ARAGON 7 CATALON.(4) This form of seal was also used by later Aragonese provincial masters.(5)
Seals of convents and commanders
Alfambra 1248. Brown wax, round, 30 mm. in diameter, depicting a cross. Legend:......LUM CASTRI....(6)
Barbará Early fourteenth century. Yellow wax, round, 29 mm. in diameter, depicting a castle between two fishes. Legend: S. COMAND.....BARBERA.(7)
Gardeny Early fourteenth century. Yellow wax, round, 27 mm. in diameter, depicting a cross, with stars in two angles and shields with crosses in the other two. Legend: S. AR..........GARDENNI. This is the seal of Arnold of Banyuls.(
Huesca Round, depicting a castle. Legend: S. DOM. TEMPLI DE OSCA.(9)
Miravet 1278, 1287. Depicting a lion.(10)
Monzón Early fourteenth century. Round, depicting a castle with three towers, with a griffin on each side. Legend: S. CASTELL........ONI.(11)
Tortosa Late thirteenth century. Depicting a cross. Legend: SIGILLUM MILICIE TEMPLI IN DERTOSA.(12)
Notes
1. F. de Sagarra, Sigillografía catalana, iii (Barcelona, 1932), 473, no. 5667.
2. E. Berger, Les Registres d'Innocent IV, ii (Paris, 1887), 169, doc. 4970.
3. L.C. Douët d'Arcq, Collection de sceaux, iii (Paris 1868), 242, no. 9870.
4. The seal is described in a document drawn up in 1245: RAH, 12-6-1/M-83, doc. 111; and examples survive from the years 1247 and 1251: Sagarra, op. cit. iii. 473, no. 5668; J. Menéndez Pidal, Catálogo de sellos españoles de la edad media: Archivo Histórico Nacional: Sección de sigilografía (Madrid, 1929), p. 182, no. 251, where the date of the second seal is given wrongly as 1241.
5. See the descriptions of the master's seal in AGP, parch. Gardeny, no. 2244-B (1264) and AHN, San Juan, leg. 342, doc. 6 (1273).
6. Sagarra, op. cit. iii. 473, no. 5669.
7. Ibid. iii. 473, no. 5670.
8. Ibid. iii. 474, no. 5671.
9. R. de Huesca, Teatro histórico de las iglesias del reyno de Aragón, vii (Pamplona, 1797), 121.
10. See the describtions in ACA, parch. Peter III, no. 96, and AHN, San Juan, leg. 333, doc. 15.
11. Sagarra, op. cit. iii. 474, no. 5673.
12. Constums de Tortosa, 1. iv. 9, in B. Oliver, Historia del derecho en Cataluña, Mallorca y Valencia: Código de las costumbres de Tortosa, iv (Madrid, 1881), 36.