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December 22. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Bishops [Arnaud] of Lydda and [Étienne] of Beirut, relating that, according to the petition of Master Filippo canon of Tripoli, chaplain of the cardinal-priest of Santa Sabina H[ugues de Saint-Cher], when the pope understood that Filippo’s prebends in the church of Tripoli were vacant, he conferred one of them on the canon five years ago and ordered that Filippo be received as canon in that church and given the next vacant prebend, and if one was not vacant then, assigning certain executors for this. Although the cantor and treasurer and some other canons of the church received him according to the pope’s mandate, and several others agreed, and he was invested with the canonry by the late archdeacon of Acre, one of the executors, Filippo has not yet obtained a prebend, although several became vacant afterwards, since the late bishop of Tripoli (Alberto Roberti) (Nephew of the patriarch of Antioch, Alberto Roberti) was opposed. Since Filippo is fatigued by the labour and expense of arguing the case with the bishop in the papal curia, he asked for a solution. The pope confirms the canonry, supplying whatever may be lacking, and orders the addressees to assign to Filippo a prebend as soon as they can, declaring anything done against this null and void, notwithstanding any appeals that the bishop may have once launched to the Apostolic See, any exceptions proposed against the canon, and various other potential obstacles.