RRR:
2576
YEAR:
1247
text:
June 4. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary and legate, brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), relating that when the pope asked him to protect the Greeks from Latin harassment when sending him as legate in Armenia, Konya, Turkey, Greece, the Kingdom of Babylon and in the patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem, and to have the Latins make satisfaction for any harm they had done, he did not wish to interfere with the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), who has informed the pope that the addressee had prohibited him from involving himself with the Greeks of his patriarchate and now those Greeks claim to be exempt from his jurisdiction, refuse to obey him and do not respond to court summons. The pope orders the addressee to cease interfering with the patriarch’s jurisdiction.
Sources:
Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:409, no. 2745; Acta Innocentii IV, pp. 78-9, no. 35; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:363-64, no. e-22. See also RRR 2537, 2592
