RRR:
2592
YEAR:
1247
text:
July 30. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Dean [Boniface] of Sidon, residing in Acre, and archdeacons [Bernard] of Nicosia and [Peter] of Acre, relating that he received a complaint from the lord of Beirut [Balian of Ibelin] that his bailiff for his Cypriot property Jean de Brie, after J[ean] had legitimately appealed to the Apostolic See, was excommunicated by the archbishop of Nicosia (Eustorge de Montaigut), on the grounds that as bailiff he had requested accounts and rights from the lord of Beirut’s men and forced them to render them. In view of the harm allegedly done to the lord of Beirut, the pope orders the addressees, with the assent of the agents of both sides, to relax the sentence to a caution, to summon those who should be called, to hear their depositions, to decide what is canonical and to enforce the decision, appeal put aside, notwithstanding various obstacles. If they cannot all carry this out, two or one can.
Sources:
Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:475, no. 3149; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:366-67, no. e-26
