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Request from Berenguer Fi to Pere Ferrer regarding cotton and spices loaded on Serubert Porre’s ship in the port of Acre

Date
1231
Archive
Episcopal Archive of Vic
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-AEV-ACF-1 f. 37-2
Link to the archive
Description

On March 16, 1231 and at the notary of the city of Vic, Berenguer Fi, of Vic, appointed Pere Ferrer as his attorney over six sacks of cotton and two baskets or sacks of licorice, and two bundles of cumin that he placed and weighed in the ship of Serubert Porre in the port of the city of Acre as stated in the cartulary of the said ship. Everything that Pere Ferrer does for him will be considered firm and certain, and he commands Serubert Porre and Esteve de Rubió, clerk of the said ship, to give him everything as if it were his own ─ of the said Pere Ferrer.
It was not only from the Catalan ports that commercial relations were woven with all the ports of the Mediterranean, even the most distant ones, but also from the interior of Catalonia and in the first third of the 13th century, voyages and commercial relations with Acre, as in this case, or also with Murcia, Ceuta, Bugia or Tunis are documented as documented by other documents in the same volume of the Vigata notary from the years 1230-1233.