[CHARLES IV le Bel (1294-1328) King of France (1322-1328); last son of Philip the Fair, he was the last direct Capetian]. Charter (vidimus), February 1328; parchment 62 x 55 cm (lacerations, some consolidated on spine, and wetness, but text perfectly legible), remnants of green and red cordon. Fondation de l'hôpital Saint-Jacques-aux-Pèlerins de Paris, rue Saint-Denis. [The former Hôpital Saint-Jacques aux Pèlerins was founded by Parisian citizens who had made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, and who had formed a brotherhood to house pilgrims. It was authorized by letters patent from King Louis the Hutin on July 10, 1315. To settle a quarrel with the parish priest of Saint-Eustache, who feared that the hospital church would encroach on his parish, Pope John XXII issued a bull in 1320 authorizing the appointment of a clergy for the institution and its independence from the religious authorities of Paris. The hospital, administered by laymen, benefited from princely donations, including those from Charles de Valois and Jeanne de Bourgogne, as well as from wealthy notables, which enabled the hospital to expand by purchasing private houses, enlarging the buildings and adorning the chapel. Some donations were accompanied by pious foundations (perpetual masses or prayers) for the salvation of the donor. The hospital was demolished in 1823]. Vidimus made under Philip VI in 1328 (very early in his reign) of a letter from King Charles IV le Bel dated May 2, 1321, concerning a donation for the foundation of the Saint-Jacques-aux-Pèlerins hospital. Donation by "Noble homme monseigneur de Nicole de Joynville et madame Phelippe sa fame", of "the land and seigneury in Paris which is called the terre de Therouenne" and their revenues, "which houses and places are to the confreres of the confrerie de saint Jaques aus pelerins de Paris", sums destined to be "applied and apprized by said confreres to the foundation and edefiement of the hospital of saint Jaques de Paris belonging to said confreres newly established and founded by said confreres for themselves and for their successors in honor of god and monseigneur saint Jaques seant à Paris en la grant rue pres de la porte saint Denys [...] jusqu'a la rue de Mauconseil"... Large, clearly legible document (with the exception of a few words affected by wetness), containing numerous details. Provenance: Joursanvault catalog, 1838, n°1052 "Lettres du roi Charles-le-Bel relatives à une donation faite par Nicole de Joinville et sa femme, pour la fondation de l'hôpital Saint-Jacques, situé rue Saint-Denis (1321), vidimus de 1328, very fine, well-preserved charter".