2879

RRR: 
2879
YEAR: 
1252
text: 
. July 21. Camp near Caesarea (in Castris iuxta Cesaream Palestine). [Cardinal-]Bishop Odo (Eudes de Châteauroux) of Tusculum (Frascati), papal legate, writes to the abbot and monks of Bello Loco (Beaulieu) in Cyprus, of the Cistercian Order, relating that he knows that their place of Pirgo (Pyrgos) in unsuitable for them for many reasons, so by his authority as legate he grants that, if they are able to obtain for habitation the house that was of the Friars Minor (Franciscans) situated close by (prope) Nicosia, they can transfer there, leaving the aforesaid place (Pirgo), notwithstanding any constitution concerning this promulgated in their Chapter General, which the legate does not believe prejudices the Roman Church or his legation in this matter.
Sources: 
Alexander IV, Les registres, ed. C. Bourel de la Roncière, no. 1242; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 482-83, no. f-22

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