Royal Chancellery, January 1213
Concession of Constance of Aragon,
reigning of Sicily with her son Enrico, formerly represented in the pendent seal now lost,
parchment manuscript (31×24,2 cm)
Palermo, Diocesan Historical Archive,
Tabularium, parch. I, 42

Constance of Aragon, formerly Queen Dowager of Hungary and wife to the young King of Sicily Frederick, is referred to as Regent of Sicily with her son Henry, while her husband is in Germany to fight his rival Otto IV of Brunswick, who contends with him for the title of Emperor of the German Holy Roman Empire.
The empire included the Kingdom of Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and several marches, border territories under the control of an imperial official (the marquis).
The title of emperor was not hereditary, but elective.
The queen grants (“concēdere” in Latin, hence the name “concession” for the document) to Elia, canon of the Cathedral of Palermo, a watercourse flowing from the quarry of Ayscindi (Danisinni), between the royal Norman palaces of the Zisa and the Cuba, flowing near the Castello a Mare of Palermo, for a money consideration of four tarì, to be paid every year to the royal customs.
The document was tied with a red wax seal now lost, displaying the image of Constance on the throne, as in that of the mother of her husband, Constance of Hauteville (cat.11).