RRR:
2571
YEAR:
1247
text:
April 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), relating that a new religious order (religio) is said to have appeared in Outremer, which employs a cross of black leather, such that the master and brothers of the hospital of St Mary of the Teutonic Order suffer serious scandal, especially since this sign is so close to their own that those wearing it are mistaken for Teutonic knights. The Teutonic master and knights asked the pope to have the cross of the other order made so that it is seen as different from their own. The pope orders the addressee to deal with the matter as he sees fit.
Sources:
Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:380, no. 2556
