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January 12. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishop of Tyre, stating that in the pope’s and cardinal’s presence the archbishop related how on the pope’s written orders the papal legate cardinal-deacon O[ttaviano Ubaldini] of Santa Maria in Via Lata took over as the right and property of St Peter the churches of St Mark of Tyre and of St Mark of Acre, which were said to belong to the church of St Mark of Venice, firmly forbidding anyone from presuming to exercise jurisdiction over them without papal mandate. As a token of this exemption the legate established that the primicerius and chapter of St Mark of Venice would pay the apostolic camera two besants annually on the feast of All Saints, as contained more fully in the cardinal’s letter concerning this. The addressee complained that this exemption causes serious and obvious harm to the church of Tyre, especially since the tithes and other episcopal rights in the church of St Mark of Tyre are thereby taken away, asking for an indemnity for himself and the church of Tyre. The pope grants that the exemption shall not generate any prejudice for him and the church of Tyre regarding such tithes and rights from the church of St Mark of Tyre.