Archondisa, widow of Helia Catellanus: Crete, 1358

Archondisa, widow of Helia Catellanus: Crete, 1358

Archondisa, widow of Helia Catellanus, daughter of the late Calo

Archondisa, a widow, names as her executor her "beloved brother" Sambatheus (Shabbetai in Hebrew). She leaves to her brother-executor a home in the Jewish quarter of Candia (currently where a man named Samargias Cumani lives). Three years after Archondisa's death, the house should become the property of her grandson Ligia, with a condition: Ligia only gets the house if he marries his first cousin Eudochia, the daughter of the executor Sambatheus. If Ligia does not want to marry Eudochia, he will not get the house. (Ostensibly it stays in the hands of Sambatheus.) If Ligia dies before reaching the age of marriage, on the other hand, she leaves the house to her paternal relatives ("meos propinquires paternos").

Candia, Crete

3 December 1358

Archivio di Stato, Venice

Notai di Candia, b. 295, fasc. 8, fol. 2r (not. Michele De Ceca)

McKee, Wills, no. 648

Latin

Eastern Mediterranean

Italy

Venetian Empire

Rena Lauer