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RRR: 3026
year: 1254
text: . November 13. Cairo (Cari). The sultan of Egypt al-Mu’izz Aybak (Moys Eleysi) grants extensive privileges to the Venetians. Among them is the right to have the goods of a Venetian dying in Egypt transported either to the doge in Venice or to the Baiulus Venetorum of Acre (Acconensis).
sources: Tafel and Thomas, Urkunden 2:483-490, no. 325 at p. 486; RRH 1222
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RRR: 3027
year: 1254
text: . November 17. Naples. Pope Innocent IV writes to the Bishops [Manfredo] of Vicenza and [Bartolomeo] of Limassol, relating that an outbreak of an old heresy has occurred in Vicenza and that the Benedictine nunnery of St Peter, located in the middle of this city of heretics, needs reform.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 3:543-44, no. 8235; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:445-46, no. e-97
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RRR: 3028
year: 1254
text: . November 21. Naples. In a general letter to all professed religious [and sent to Nicosia], Pope Innocent IV responds to many complaints made to him by prelates. He criticizes the religious for hearing the confessions of parishioners, preaching in their churches to those who should go to their parish churches on Sundays and Feasts, preaching rival sermons to the bishops in the cities, attracting the faithful to choose burial with them and draw up wills in their favour, depriving the secular church of its dues. The pope forbids them: to receive the faithful in their churches on Sundays and Feasts to hear sermons and make confession without the licence of the parish priests; to preach in their churches at the same time as Mass is being heard in parish churches; to preach in other parishes unless invited by the parish priests; to deny the parish priests the half, third or fourth [depending on regional custom] portion of dead parishioners goods or endowments in favour the Holy Land in the case of licit burials.
sources: Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:446-51, no. e-98
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RRR: 3029
year: 1254
text: . Late 1253 – 7 December 1254? Pope [Innocent IV?] writes to [Eudes, cardinal-bishop of Tusculum, papal legate?], relating that King [Henry I?] of Cyprus informed the pope with a petition that it is difficult for him and his subjects to go to the Apostolic See for their individual quarrels. Desiring the happy state of the king and his kingdom, the pope orders [the legate?] not to allow the king and his subjects to be molested by Archbishop [Ugo?] of Nicosia and his suffragans. But if cases should arise between the king and his subjects, on the one hand, and the archbishop or his suffragans, on the other, whenever the king or his subjects request, [the legate?] is to put an end to them with apostolic authority.
sources: Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:453-54, no. e-100
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RRR: 3030
year: 1254
text: . December 21. Naples. Pope Alexander IV writes to the abbot and convent of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Valley of Josaphat of the Order of St Benedict, belonging directly to the Roman Church, in the diocese of Jerusalem, relating that it was proposed to him on their behalf that at one time the imminent madness of the pagans and other evil-doers forced them to desert their monastery and to transfer to another place in order avoid danger to their persons, without having been granted the liberty to do so by the papacy. The pope responds to their requests by restoring them and their monastery to their original freedom, allowing them to ask and receive from the Apostolic See confirmation for their abbot, which the pope reserves for that see, and to enjoy freely the exemption and other privileges with the liberties granted to the monastery.
sources: Delaborde, Chartes, 99-100, no. XLVIII; RRH 1223
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RRR: 3031
year: 1254
text: . September 1 - December 31. Order issued by the sultan of Aleppo to the effect that Venetian merchants should continue to have free and secure passage within his lands.
sources: Tafel and Thomas, Urkunden 3:60-61, no. 352; RRH 1218
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RRR: 3032
year: 1254
text: . September 1 - December 31. The Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Salah al-Dīn Yūsuf (Melec el Nasser Salech el dume weldin) of Aleppo has received letters from the doge of Venice expressing friendship, which is reciprocated, mentioning the doge’s envoy, Johan Secret.
sources: Tafel and Thomas, Urkunden 3:61-62, no. 353; RRH 1218
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RRR: 3033
year: 1254
text: . 1254 (?). Nicosia. Archbishop [Hugo (?)] (Ugo da Fagiano) of Nicosia decrees that an assized who fails in an assigned task shall be fined three denarii each time. An assized who is assigned and is absent from Matins, high Mass, or Vespers on a day of nine readings shall pay the same penalty. An assized who is absent from Matins, high Mass, or Vespers on common days shall be fined two denarii, and the same for each minor hour after the first time. The person who notes the absence shall receive half and the one who makes good the absence the other half. No one shall enter the choir when the epistle of high Mass has been read, and no member of the choir one shall be near the church or enter it with his secular habit while there is singing in the choir. Those who solely enter the choir to receive something given there should not be allowed in. An assize who failed to attend shall offer an excuse on that day or at least the next, if he has a legitimate one; otherwise he shall not be heard about this.
sources: Schabel, Synodicum Nicosiense, 114-15, text A.XXXI
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RRR: 3034
year: 1255
text: January 13. Naples. Pope Alexander IV writes to the suffragans of the church of Nicosia (Nicosiensis), both Greeks and Latins, relating that reason and their pontifical modesty requires that they treat Archbishop [Hugo] of Nicosia (Nicosiensis) with fraternal affection and, along with those subject to his metropolitan rule, revere him. Thus the pope urges them to show the archbishop fitting obedience and reverence as their metropolitan, observe and have observed by their subjects his justly promulgated sentences, and assist him and his church.
sources: Coureas and Schabel, The Cartulary, pp. 84-85, no. 7; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:455, no. f-1
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RRR: 3035
year: 1255
text: January 13. Naples. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Hugo] of Nicosia (Nicosiensis), urging him as the Lord's watchman to heed the Prophet Ezekiel's warning that, if one sees danger and does not alert the people, their blood will be on one's hands. Although the pope believes that the archbishop is zealous and diligent in looking out for souls and correcting transgressions, since the archbishop will act more eagerly the more the pope encourages him and will feel himself strengthened by papal authority, the pope orders him to be a prudent cultivator and watchman of the Lord's vineyard and to root out the thorns and thistles of vices in his subordinates and plant and propagate virtues in their stead, correcting and reforming as befits his office and as he deems expedient for the salvation of their souls.
sources: Coureas and Schabel, The Cartulary, p. 100, no. 13; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:456, no. f-2; trans. Schabel, Synodicum Nicosiense, p. 311, no. 24
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