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3252

RRR: 
3252
YEAR: 
1259
text: 
January 9. Anagni. Alexander IV writes to Bishop [Thomas] of Bethlehem (Bethleemitanus), papal legate, relating that he was told on behalf of the abbot and convent of St Mary of the Valley of Josaphat of the Order of St Benedict in the diocese of Jerusalem that during the quarrel that arose some time ago between the Genoese, on the one side, and the Venetians and Pisans, on the other, in Outremer, their fighting and that of their supporters and accomplices caused serious damage and loss to the abbot and convent. Thus the abbot and convent asked the pope for a remedy. The pope orders the addressee, if it is so, to compel the aforesaid Genoese, Venetians, Pisans, and their supporters and accomplices to make satisfaction to the abbot and convent for the losses and damages they are known to have caused, after a warning, through ecclesiastical censure, without appeal.
Sources: 
Delaborde, Chartes de Josaphat, pp. 106-7, no. 51; RRH 1264. Inserted in an instrument dated 27 April 1260
Comments: 
Note: In the printed text this letter is assigned to 1258 on the basis of it being issued in the fourth year of Pope Alexander. However, since Thomas was not sent as legate until the second half of 1258, and the papal letters of January 1258 are all dated Viterbo, while those of January 1259 are dated Anagni, the pontifical year “anno quarto” seems to be an error for “anno quinto”. This letter should therefore be dated to 1259.

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