S. Chiara
Community ID: 
 
1460
 
Town: 
 
Assisi
 
Diocese: 
 
Assisi
 
Religious Order: 
 
Poor Clares
 
Notable Heads: 
 

Abbesses: Marcia Valdi de Marsciano (1390), Margerita Paulutii de Iano (1400), Gniese Iacobi (1404), Margarita de Giano (1407), Isabetta Venturi Gilioni (1498), Marina de Spello (1501)

 
Population Counts: 
 

14 in 1407, 11 in 1431, 16 in 1477, 14 in 1479, 10 in 1499, 16 nuns, 7 novices and 3 conversae in 1503.

 
Priveleges & Papal Exemptions: 
 

5 August, 1265 -- Clement IV

 
Other Ecclesiastical Relations: 
 

Had a small convent of monks attached to it.

 
Assets/Property: 
 

In 1354 the community had 12 plots of land estimated at 659-695 lire.

 
Other Economic Activities: 
 

Had to give 50 cadi of wine and oil to the papacy in 1573.

 
Early Documents: 
 

October 3, 1260: Record of the transport of the body of S. Clare to S. Giorgio // 1390: Abbess Marcia Valdi de Marsciano received 200 lire from a legate. // 1421: Antonia ser Lellii de Giraldo, wife of Filippo Appolonii Massiarelli gives dowry to her niece.

 
Published Primary Sources: 
 

Nova vita di S. Francesco di Assisi;
La vita di S. Chiara

 
Secondary Sources: 
 

From Cornwall to Caithness: some aspects of British field archaeology: papers presented to Norman V. Quinnell.;
L'Abbazia di S. Crispolto del Piano di Bettona, pp. 92-99;
Situazione..., p. 239

 
Miscellaneous Information: 
 

1391: death of Nicholetta de Ragusio

 
Contributors: 
 
Suzanne Wemple-Kinder
 
Length: 
 
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