karl borchardt had wanted. All other monies and properties left by Fr. Hesso were to be used to pay for the expenses of the case and for pious donations to benefit Fr. Hesso’s soul.30 On the other hand the terms despropriamentumandtestamentumcould also be used synonymously. In 1511 the Master Fr. Émery d’Amboise and the Convent on Rhodes licenced Fr. Philipp Flachberger, commander of Vienna (Austria), to make atestamentum sive dispropriamentumand to grant belongings, not to the prior of Bohemia, his superior in the Order, but directly to the Order’s treasury on Rhodes for the improvement of the fortifications of that place against the Turks.31 The Teutonic Order claimed to follow the Hospitallers concerning hospitals and the Templars concerning warfare.32 Nevertheless, the Teutonic Order did not allowdespropriamenta but only testamenta. Rafał Kubicki has recently found and edited two such testamenta, of the Unterspittler Hans Österreich at (Preußisch) Holland (Pasłęk) in 1453 and the Pfleger at Lochstädt Hans von Köckritz from around 1476.33 Hans Österreich made a pious foundation for his anniversary that eight priests and four scolares in the hospital at Holland were to execute. Thecedula introclusawith the details was sent to the secretary of the High Master at Marienburg who was asked to confirm the donation: Disse nochgeschreben artikel sal innehalden der testamentsbrieff des underspittalers zcu Hollant. Hans von Köckritz claimed to have alicentia testandi from his superiors in the Order. His cedula was called a testamentumbut its contents were similar to a Hospitaller despropriamentum: Dye czedel von Lochstet, was des 30 Documents Alamania (2021), pp. 238–41 no. 272. 31 Original Praha, Národní archiv Maltézští rytíři –české velkopřevorství, no. 1209; https:// www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RM/1209/charter. The text is edited below as appendix 1. 32 Perlbach (1890), p. 160; Arnold (1968), pp. 26–27; confirmed by Pope Innocent III on19 February 1199: Strehlke (1869), p. 266 no. 297. 33 Kubicki (2019), pp. 325–37. 111 Teutonic Order testamenta
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