Timeline St. Gerlach

Timeline St. Gerlach (highlights St. Gerlach to make the development in time of the particular location more visible through charters)

1099

First Crusade

Conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in the First Crusade.

1118

Construction castle

around 1120

Birth Gerlach

Birth of the knight Gerlach in the Maastricht area.

1147-1149

Second Crusade

Second Crusade in which the intended conquest of Damascus fails.

between 1154 and 1176

Italian campaigns

Gozewijn III, lord of Valkenburg, accompanied Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on three Italian campaigns between 1154 and 1176.

ca. 1165

Death Gerlach

Death of Gerlach, saint of the Geul valley.

1165

Donation

Donation of land "by the oak" (the land around the hermitage) to St. Mary's Monastery in Heinsberg, Germany.

Shortly after ca. 1165

Pilgrimage

Shortly after about 1165: origin of pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Gerlach.

1189-1192

Third Crusade

Third Crusade; the Crusaders fail to conquer Jerusalem. Frederick Barbarossa drowns in this crusade while wading through a river.

1202

First mention

First mention of "locum sancti Gerlaci," the place of St. Gerlach.

1202-1204

Fourth Crusade

Fourth Crusade: Gozewijn IV, lord of Valkenburg, breaks his crusading oath, but is released from the subsequent ecclesiastical ban by the donation of a farmstead in Munstergeleen to the monastery of St. Gerlach.

between 1210 and 1220

Flooding of the Geul

Chapel in the vault of St. Gerlach flooded by flooding of the Geul, the provost of St. Mary's monastery had a tomb made for a shrine containing St. Gerlach's remains.

1218

First mention monastery

First certain mention of St. Gerlach monastery in Houthem.

around 1227

Life of Gerlach

A monk describes the life of St. Gerlach in the Vita beati Gerlaci.

1232

Recording nunnery

Admission of the nunnery St. Gerlach to the Order of Norbertines.

1233

Papal protection

Papal protection of the monastery St. Gerlach and confirmation of all property.

1270

Donation

Donation to the monastery of St. Gerlach of the road through the village of Sint-Gerlach by Walram, lord of Valkenburg and Monschau.

1273

Nominating priest

Nomination by the St. Gerlach monastery of a new priest for Oirsbeek church.

1279

Construction wall

Construction of a wall around the monastery of St. Gerlach on the property of the Maastricht chapter of St. Servaas.

1288

Altar Foundation

Foundation of an altar in the monastery of St. Gerlach by Goblio of Schinnen, canon of St. Peter in Liege.

1293

Appointment maximum nuns

Agreement on a maximum of 30 nuns in the convent of St. Gerlach.

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