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December 2. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), relating that, as he was told on the patriarch’s behalf, since the patriarch, under protest, out of reverence for the pope, accepted his colleague the patriarch of Antioch and papal legate [Opizo Fieschi]’s bearing the insignia of his legation in the city of Acre, of wearing red clothes, and of blessing the people of Acre, although such things are reserved to the pope’s legate a latere, the pope responds to the patriarch’s entreaties by granting that the aforesaid privileges generate no prejudice for the church of Jerusalem.