956

RRR: 
956
Other: 
Hiestand, PK, p. 277, no. 110
YEAR: 
1175
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT: 
Leprosary of Saint Lazarus
text: 
*†(c. 1175). Pope Alexander III approves the Rule of the leprosary of St Lazarus, with the provision that knights can be married and need only take a vow of conjugal chastity. [142]

Transaction Type :

INSTITUTION NUMBER: 
328
Sources: 
Hiestand, PK, p. 277, no. 110
Comments: 
[142] This certainly looks like a forgery, alhough Hiestand (loc. cit.) touches on the possibility that it could be a later letter, to be attributed to Pope Alexander IV.
GRANTOR: 
Pope Alexander III
RECEPIENT: 
Leprosary of Saint Lazarus in Jerusalem

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