Every entry that names both a grantor and a recipient is a relationship between two parties. Drawn together, they form a network: popes and patriarchs, kings and counts, and the military orders that received from almost everyone. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, and click a party to search the database for their documents.
Names are taken verbatim. The Regesta has no authority file, so a party is identified here by exactly the string the entry uses. Where an editor wrote “Pope Honorius III” in one entry and “Honorius III” in another, this graph shows two parties, not one. Merging them automatically would silently fuse people the edition deliberately kept distinct — so the graph under-counts the most prolific figures rather than guessing.
Only entries recording both a grantor and a recipient can appear. The slider raises the threshold for how many documents a party must appear in, which is the practical way to read the dense centre of the graph.
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