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February 9. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the bishops of Totosa (Anteradensis) and Tripoli (Tripolitanus), relating that the petition of Patriarch [Opizo Fieschi] of Antioch that was read to him claimed that although Pope I[nnocentius IV] on the cardinals' advice ordered Master A. of the Temple and the master of the Hospital of Jerusalem to furnish the patriarch and Prince [Bohemond VI] with a certain sum of gold and silver deposited with the masters, to be spent on the defense of the church and city of Antioch, with the addressees assigned as executors for this, the patriarch and prince have only been able to obtain 320 marks of that money so far, which the master of the Hospital furnished them. And although the master of the Temple paid 400 marks sterling of that money to the cleric Gerardus de Pon[te]tremulo, the procurator and nuncio of the patriarch and prince, he exacted and received from the cleric a pledge in the name of the patriarch and prince that if within a year from then the letter of [Pope Innocentius] were found among the goods of the late Patriarch R[obertus de Nantes] of Jerusalem via which letter [Pope Innocentius] himself granted those same 400 marks to the patriarch of Jerusalem, or if the present pope did not wish the patriarch and prince of Antioch to have those same 400 marks, [Gerardus] would return the aforesaid marks to the same master of the Temple. And in order to give complete security to the same master of the Temple over this, the aforesaid 400 marks were deposited with the people who gave their guarantee over this for the aforesaid time under the aforesaid conditions. But because that land has long suffered from enemy attacks, in order for it to rise again, it needs help, so the patriarch of Antioch humbly asked the pope to provide. Therefore, if the addressees do not find that [Pope Innocentius] granted the oft-mentioned 400 marks to the aforesaid patriarch of Jerusalem, those who gave their guarantee are to be absolved of this without difficulty and the oft-mentioned 400 marks are to be given in full to the aforesaid patriarch and prince [of Antioch] to be used for the protection of the church and city of Antioch as they see fit. For the rest, they are to carry out the mandate of [Pope Innocentius] according to his letter.