text: July 11. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Master Aubry, rector of the church of Béville[-le-Comte] in the diocese of Chartres, relating that he was shown the master’s petition that claimed that when the pope ordered the late bishop of Chartres to have the master received as canon and brother in the church of St Maurice of Chartres and to be given a prebend if vacant or as soon as possible, the bishop did not bother, so the executor carried it out, granting the master the vacant prebend that the archbishop of Tyre had possessed. However, a long series of events intervened, the addressee did not obtain the prebend, and he is now granted another prebend that was vacated after that of the archbishop of Tyre. July 11. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Master Aubry, rector of the church of Béville[-le-Comte] in the diocese of Chartres, relating that he was shown the master’s petition that claimed that when the pope ordered the late bishop of Chartres to have the master received as canon and brother in... more
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 21, f. 440v, no. 22; Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:462, no. 3071
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RRR: 2587
year: 1247
text: July 12. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the [patriarch-]elect of Antioch [Opizo Fieschi], relating that he wishes to favour the ecclesiastical career of a student, Raniero son of Guglielmo Scotti, a Genoese citizen, who is devoted to the pope, and he orders the addressee to have Raniero accepted as a canon and brother in a church in the patriarchate of Antioch or of Jerusalem, except in the cathedral church of Antioch, and to be assigned a prebend, if vacant, or as soon as possible, various obstacles notwithstanding. July 12. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the [patriarch-]elect of Antioch [Opizo Fieschi], relating that he wishes to favour the ecclesiastical career of a student, Raniero son of Guglielmo Scotti, a Genoese citizen, who is devoted to the pope, and he orders the addressee to have Raniero accepted... more
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 21, ff. 441v-442r, no. 26, for start and end; Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:463, no. 3075
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RRR: 2588
year: 1247
text: July 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the faithful of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, relating, after a flowery arenga, that the addressees ‘are the celestial plantation that inhabits the land that the Redeemer of all consecrated with the shedding of his own blood’. Thus he exhorts them to persist in their reverence for, and obedience to, their mother the Church, although the former emperor Frederick [II] tries with tricks to pry them away from their salvation so that he may not perish alone in his wickedness. Otherwise, with depraved conversation corrupting good ways, the treasure of their merits would quickly be depleted, if they deviate from the right path of Christ and follow Frederick to death. Thus the pope incites and urges them to assist devoutly their true Mother who will defend the humble with her salutary arm after the annihilation of the ‘evil forces’. July 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the faithful of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, relating, after a flowery arenga, that the addressees ‘are the celestial plantation that inhabits the land that the Redeemer of all consecrated with the shedding of his own blood’. Thus he exhorts them to persist... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:614, no. 4050; Acta Innocentii IV, pp. 79-80, no. 36
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RRR: 2589
year: 1247
text: July 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to [Jean] son of Baldwin [of Ibelin], the brother of the lord of Beirut (Balian of Ibelin), relating that his father and uncle had the pope informed that [Jean] proposes to marry the noble woman [Isabelle], daughter of Aimery de Rivet, to quiet discord and foster friendship, but she is related to him in the third and fourth degrees. The pope authorizes the union, threatening excommunication for anyone infringing on his dispensation. July 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to [Jean] son of Baldwin [of Ibelin], the brother of the lord of Beirut (Balian of Ibelin), relating that his father and uncle had the pope informed that [Jean] proposes to marry the noble woman [Isabelle], daughter of Aimery de Rivet, to quiet discord and... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:475, no. 3151; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:366, no. e-26
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RRR: 2590
year: 1247
text: July 20. Sisian. Baichu (Baiothnoy). The representative (noyan) Baichu on behalf of the khan (Güyüg) writes to Pope [Innocent IV], relating that the pope’s nuncios recently brought two papal letters and spoke with big words, but he does not know whether this was the pope’s orders or they did it out of their own stupidity. In the letters the pope had written that he kills many men, that whoever hears God’s command will rule his own land, water, and patrimony (the One who contains the face of the entire orb shall hand power to him), but whoever does not shall die. The pope has now sent this command to the emperor. If the pope wishes to rule over his land, water, and patrimony, the pope himself must come to the emperor, and the one who contains the face of the entire earth, in person, and if he does not hear the command of God and the one who contains the face of the entire earth, the emperor is unwilling, God knows. Before the pope comes, he must send nuncios informing the emperor, whether he comes or not, if he wants to be with him or his enemy, and he should send his response to the command quickly to the emperor, which command the emperor has sent through the hands of Aybeg and Sargis. (Lupprian, pp. 190-92, no. 33; RRH 1150). [Note: See also Lupprian, pp. 192-93, no. 33a, 1247, before July 17, Karakorum, letter of Chaam to Baichu (Baiothnoy), which the Mongols (Tartari) call the letter of God, relating that, it is the order of Genghis Khan July 20. Sisian. Baichu (Baiothnoy). The representative (noyan) Baichu on behalf of the khan (Güyüg) writes to Pope [Innocent IV], relating that the pope’s nuncios recently brought two papal letters and spoke with big words, but he does not know whether this was the pope’s orders or they did it out... more
sources: Chingiscam
comments: Note: See also Lupprian, pp. 192-93, no. 33a, 1247, before July 17, Karakorum, letter of Chaam to Baichu (Baiothnoy), which the Mongols (Tartari) call the letter of God, relating that, it is the order of Genghis Khan (Chingiscam), the son of God, that addressee make known to all provinces that are obedient or rebellious, since this is the mandate of the living and immortal God, that they have a choice between obedience to the addressee or death
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RRR: 2591
year: 1247
text: July 22. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishop of Tyre, relating that he wishes to favour the ecclesiastical career of a Genoese student, Ogerio Botario, the nephew of the current papal gatekeeper Pietro, so he orders the addressee to have the student or his agent accepted as a canon in a cathedral church in the patriarchate of Jerusalem. July 22. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishop of Tyre, relating that he wishes to favour the ecclesiastical career of a Genoese student, Ogerio Botario, the nephew of the current papal gatekeeper Pietro, so he orders the addressee to have the student or his agent accepted as a canon in... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:612, no. 4042
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RRR: 2592
year: 1247
text: July 30. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Dean [Boniface] of Sidon, residing in Acre, and archdeacons [Bernard] of Nicosia and [Peter] of Acre, relating that he received a complaint from the lord of Beirut [Balian of Ibelin] that his bailiff for his Cypriot property Jean de Brie, after J[ean] had legitimately appealed to the Apostolic See, was excommunicated by the archbishop of Nicosia (Eustorge de Montaigut), on the grounds that as bailiff he had requested accounts and rights from the lord of Beirut’s men and forced them to render them. In view of the harm allegedly done to the lord of Beirut, the pope orders the addressees, with the assent of the agents of both sides, to relax the sentence to a caution, to summon those who should be called, to hear their depositions, to decide what is canonical and to enforce the decision, appeal put aside, notwithstanding various obstacles. If they cannot all carry this out, two or one can. July 30. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Dean [Boniface] of Sidon, residing in Acre, and archdeacons [Bernard] of Nicosia and [Peter] of Acre, relating that he received a complaint from the lord of Beirut [Balian of Ibelin] that his bailiff for his Cypriot property Jean de Brie, after J[ean] had... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:475, no. 3149; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:366-67, no. e-26
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RRR: 2593
year: 1247
text: August 3. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarchs, archbishops and bishops, both Latins and Greeks, in the areas of the East, ordering them to have observed any sentences of suspension, interdict or excommunication rightly promulgated by the papal legate Brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), papal penitentiary, against any Latins except patriarchs, archbishops and bishops, for clear injuries done unduly to the Greeks, when they refuse to make amends after diligent warning, or against the Greeks themselves for their manifest transgressions, until they do fitting satisfaction. August 3. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarchs, archbishops and bishops, both Latins and Greeks, in the areas of the East, ordering them to have observed any sentences of suspension, interdict or excommunication rightly promulgated by the papal legate Brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:615, no. 4053; Acta Innocentii IV, p. 81, no. 37; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:367-68, no. e-27
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RRR: 2594
year: 1247
text: August 6. Milan. Incorporating the letter from Pope Innocent IV of May 6, Cardinal Octavian of S. Maria in Via Lata forbids any infringement of the papal protection extended to the churches of St Mark of Tyre and St Mark of Acre, which owe an annual census of 2 besants to the Holy See, payable on the Feast of All Saints. August 6. Milan. Incorporating the letter from Pope Innocent IV of May 6, Cardinal Octavian of S. Maria in Via Lata forbids any infringement of the papal protection extended to the churches of St Mark of Tyre and St Mark of Acre, which owe an annual census of 2 besants to the Holy See, payable on... more
sources: Tafel and Thomas, Urkunden 2:445-47, no. 312; RRH 1151; see also RRR 2573
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RRR: 2595
year: 1247
text: August 7. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary the papal legate Brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), relating that the legate is said to have been working for the return of ‘the patriarch of the Greeks [Manuel II] and his suffragans’ to the unity of the Holy Roman Church, but that the pope wishes to do no injury or prejudice to anyone over this. Thus, concerning the Greek prelates who wish to return to the devotion and reverence to the Church, if they were subject to the [Latin] patriarch of Antioch or of Jerusalem or other Latin prelates in the past, they are to remain bound in obedience and reverence to them. But if they are not known to have been so subject, the legate shall receive them in obedience to the Roman Church, save the rights of others. Moreover, the legate shall persuade the patriarch of the Greeks to come to the Apostolic See in person to be admitted to its unity and full grace, and if it is established that the patriarch is not subject to any of those patriarchs or prelates, he and his suffragans who enjoy the same freedom will be subject directly to the Apostolic See. If the patriarch cannot come in person, he is to send suitable representatives for himself and his suffragans with sufficient mandate. If the patriarch or others cannot afford to come, the legate shall assist with funds from the Apostolic Camera. August 7. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary the papal legate Brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), relating that the legate is said to have been working for the return of ‘the patriarch of the Greeks [Manuel II] and his suffragans’ to the unity of the... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:614, no. 4051; Acta Innocentii IV, pp. 82-84, no. 39; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:368-70, no. e-28, wrongly referring to ‘Patriarch [Elias] of Antioch’, following Mas Latrie
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