Cherana, wife of Helia Belanza: Crete, 1342

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Title

Cherana, wife of Helia Belanza: Crete, 1342

Subject

Cherana, wife of Helia Belanza

Description

Cherana named a female friend, a widow, as her executor. She leaves two homes that she owns in Candia's Jewish quarter to her children, a daughter named Xathi and a son named Ioste.

She seeks to make it known in her will that she had the goods of the late Cheria, the widow of Chagi, but that she has repaid it all in clothing and in teaching (in vestitu et doctrina) to Cheria's son Lingiachus.

Creator

Candia, Crete

Date

26 November 1342

Source

Archivio di Stato, Venice
ASV Notai di Candia, b. 295 (not. Giovanni Gerardo), fol. 22v.
McKee, Wills, no. 158

Language

Latin

Coverage

Eastern Mediterranean
Italy

Contributor

Rena Lauer