2509

August 5. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the master and brothers of the Teutonic Order of Jerusalem, relating that, to avoid scandal, he gave permission to brother Gerhard von Malberg (Malberc), the former master of the Teutonic Knights, to transfer to another order, and the new master gave him 400 silver marks to pay his debts and provide for his needs. In the end, however, the former master wishes to stay in the order and the new master received him kindly, with the former master promising in the pope’s and cardinals’ presence to obey just as other brothers. Believing the former master to be contrite and humbled, the new master, in the presence of the cardinal-priest of Santa Sabina H[ugues of Saint-Cher], granted the former master the bailiwick of Flanders of France and certain other goods of the Order, with the former master asserting that the grant would be null if he did not fulfil his promises and that he wished to live with his conventual brothers. But because the former master neglected to fulfil his promises, creating quite a scandal, which can only be quieted, as is claimed, if the provision is cancelled and the former master lives as a simple brother, especially since the arrangement was against custom. The pope grants the addressees that they can cancel the arrangement as they see fit and subject the former master to their ordinary statutes and procedures if he resists.