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RRR: 2896
year: 1253
text: . January 30. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV writes to the master and brothers of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, relating that he has learned that their house is overwhelmed by debt, and because their revenues and incomes are much reduced by the malice of the time and hardly sufficient, they cannot escape the usurious hole on their own. Thus they ask for a remedy lest their house collapse, to the grave danger of the Holy Land. The pope grants that they can receive up to ten thousand silver marks anywhere except the Kingdom of Germany from the redemption of crusading vows, payments by usurers and others with ill-gotten gains who wish to redeem their souls before dying but cannot make restitution, and general legacies to the Holy Land, such that those who give them this money are not otherwise obliged to make restitution or satisfaction.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 3:162-63, no. 6256
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RRR: 2897
year: 1253
text: . *February 3, 1250 - 1253. Vidimus relating to a confirmation by King Baldwin III (2/3 February 1155) to the abbey of St Mary of the Latins in Jerusalem, made at the request of Brother Hugh [Revel] grand commander of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem by Robert [de Nantes] patriarch of Jerusalem, legat de Holy See, Henry archbishop of Nazareth and G. bishop of Acre.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 1:431-32, no. 234; RRH 315a
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RRR: 2898
year: 1253
text: . February 12. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV writes to the [cardinal-]bishop of Tusculum (Frascati) and papal legate [Eudes de Châteauroux], relating that he received his report on Christians of Acre and Tripoli who, despite the Church’s prohibitions, mint coins with the name and year from the birth of Muhammad. The legate promulgated a sentence of excommunication against all those who, from now on, mint besants and dirhams (dragmis), whether in gold or silver, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch and the County of Tripoli. Since it is not just unworthy, but even abominable, to commit such a blasphemous name to solemn memory, the pope orders the legate to have his sentence observed without violation.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 3:176, no. 6336
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RRR: 2899
year: 1253
text: . February 12. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV authorizes the cardinal-bishop of Tusculum, the papal legate, to lift sentences of excommunication from certain crusaders who were past supporters of King Conrad, the son of the Emperor Frederick, or Vatatzes.
sources: Innocent IV, Les Registres 3:176, no. 6337
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RRR: 2900
year: 1253
text: . February 17. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV writes to the bishop of Tripoli, relating that, since Guido Sette, canon of the church of Bāniyās (on the Syrian coast), is a familiar of Cardinal-Deacon O[ttobono] of Sant’Adriano al Foro and the pope wishes to favour the cardinal, he orders the addressee to have Guido paid in full the fruits of his prebend in that church, except for the daily distributions, wherever Guido is, as if he resided in the church, various obstacles notwithstanding.
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 22, f. 253r, no. 553; Innocent IV, Les registres, 3:192-93, no. 6410
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RRR: 2901
year: 1253
text: . February 18. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem (Robert de Nantes) and the bishop of Lydda, relating that he was informed on behalf of Brother Hugues de Nissun, relative of the late master of the Temple G[uillaume], that when at one time the pope ordered the patriarch to confer on him the episcopacy of Sebaste, in the province of Caesarea, which under Saracen occupation for more than 20 years was said to have been vacant for a long time, the patriarch did not proceed because the [arch]bishop of Caesarea had de facto appointed the absent dean of Caesarea to the see of Sebaste on his own authority, although he could not de iure and for a long time after the appointment the dean was not found to have assented, as is said. The pope wishes the grace that he initiated come into effect, so he orders the patriarch to proceed without difficulty with the appointment of Brother H[ugues] to the episcopacy of Sebaste according to the pope’s earlier letter, notwithstanding the appointment of the dean or the general revocation of appointments of bishops or abbots that the pope recently ordered.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 3:181, no. 6350
comments: Note: See also RRR 2918.
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RRR: 2902
year: 1253
text: . *February 1- 28. Gravina di Puglia. At the request of frere Raimbaud, grand commander in Italy, Hungary and Austria, King Conrad of Jerusalem confirms the possession by the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem of all goods it has acquired in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and all it will acquire in future, together with the immunities and privileges granted by his grandfather, King John, and his predecessors.
sources: Mayer, UKJ 3:1218-19, no. 706; RRH 1202a
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RRR: 2903
year: 1253
text: . March 4. Jaffa. [Cardinal-]Bishop Odo (Eudes de Châteauroux) of Tusculum (Frascati), papal legate, writes to Archbishop Hugo (Ugo da Fagiano) of Nicosia, ordering him to make public in the Great Church of Nicosia and have made public in all other church of the Kingdom of Cyprus the statute he recently established in Jaffa on 5 January 1253 (RRR 2893), on Palm Sunday and Epiphany, and to have the statute written in the books of those churches.
sources: Schabel, Synodicum Nicosiense, 104-7, text A.XXVII.1 and 3
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RRR: 2904
year: 1253
text: . March 8. Jaffa. Bishop Arnoldus of Saint Georgius of Lydda (Liddensis) and Bishop-Elect G[aufridus] of Bethlehem (Bethlemitanus) write to Matheus, canon and preceptor of the Holy Sepulchre, informing him that they have received the mandate of Pope Innocent (see RRR 2846 from 11 January 1252). Since they have to reside in Jaffa with the Christian army, they are unable to have personal knowledge at present about the lawsuits and quarrels of said bishop [of Hebron] and his chapter, so they commit their role to the addressee, reserving the definitive sentence. Therefore they order the addressee to summon those who are to be summoned, to learn concerning the lawsuits, and to send the cases to them with sufficient information and the testimony of his letter and his actions.
sources: Strehlke, Tabulae, pp. 81-82, no. 102; RRH 1203
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RRR: 2905
year: 1253
text: . March 18. Perugia. Pope Innocent IV writes to the master and brothers of the house of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, relating that their petition claimed that, at one time, the pope wrote to the [cardinal-]bishop of Tusculum (Frascati) and papal legate [Eudes de Châteauroux] concerning a sum of money that the late Patriarch G[erold de Lausanne] had deposited with the addressees while alive. The pope ordered the legate to assign one third to the patriarch of Jerusalem [Robert de Nantes], G[erold]’s successor, and, on the advice of King [Louis IX] of France and the same patriarch, to convert the other two thirds to the support of the Holy Land. Because the addressees claim to be under crushing debt, however, they asked the pope to supply some relief. The pope grants that for two years they cannot be forced to pay the shares of the money that concern the legate and the patriarch [of Jerusalem], but they shall pay to the patriarch of Antioch, [Opizo Fieschi] without difficulty or delay the third that the pope established for him in another mandate, notwithstanding the fact that the addresses promised to pay fixed portions to the legate and patriarch of Jerusalem.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 3:196-97, no. 6432a
comments: Note: See also RRR 2907.
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