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RRR: 2786
year: 1250
text: After October 17. Brother William of Chastel Neuf (Frater Guillelmus de Castro) Novo sanctae domus Hospitalis Jerusalem magister humilis et pauperum Christi custos informs Frater Gualterus de Sancto Martino praedicator that at the intervention of the king of France he and 30 of his brothers, together with many other religious and secular men, were freed from captivity by the Egyptians and reached Acre on 17 October. A major dispute has arisen between the sultans of Egypt and Aleppo, from which the Christians may take advantage when military help arrives from Europe.
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:204-5, no. 101; RRH 1193
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RRR: 2787
year: 1250
text: After October 17. Acre. A brother of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem* narrates the course of the crusade of King Louis IX of France after the fall of Damietta. He describes the Christian advance into the interior of Egypt once the Nile flood had subsided; the encampment by the river; the crossing, at a place revealed by a Saracen (Sarracenus), by the king and his brothers the count of Artois (Atrabatensis comes), the count of Poitou (Pictavensis comes) and the count of Anjou (Andegavensis comes), the brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar, leaving the brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, the duke of Burgandy (dux Burgundiae), the count of Brittany (comes Britanniae) and others to guard the camp; the battle of Mansurah, during which the count of Artois (Atrabatensis comes) escaped, although this is later corrected, and Willelmus Longa Spata died a martyr. The brother of the Hospital of St John continues his narrative with the blockade of the Christians, the capture of the king and the rest of the army on 6 April, the insults to the ancient standards, the oriflamme (oloflamma) and the bauceant (baleanum), and the escape to Damietta of the legate, the patriarch of Jerusalem with some bishops and the duke of Burgundy (dux Burgundiae), who was sick. He summarizes the losses suffered by his Order and others. In the last engagement all the conventual brothers died, with the exception of the vicemagister et frater Johannes de Bonay, 4 who were taken prisoner and 1 who was taken with King Louis. Only 3 Knights Templar survived, although badly wounded, as the brother has been told while drafting his letter in Acre. The scouts (exploratores) sent by the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem into Egypt have not returned. In the battle of Mansurah, the count of Artois (comes Atrabatensis), about whom the brother of the Hospital of St John is critical, was killed, William (Willelmus) Longa Spata was martyred, and none of his company escaped, except for dominus Alexanderus Giffard, who was badly wounded and was later taken with the king or killed. Later in the letter this report is corrected: the vicemagister Johannes de Bonay was killed, together with the Order’s draparius. The truce made with the Egyptians was to last for 10 years, on, condition that the king of France paid 100,000 marcae argenti and that prisoners held by both sides since the battle of Le Forbie (bellum Gazaras, 1244) should be released; among these were the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Damietta was to be returned with all the arms and provisions in it. The Christians would hold Jaffa, Azothum, Caesarea, Castrum Peregrinum, Haifa, Caymotum, Nazareth, Saphotum, Beelford, Tyre, Canan Turoriis, which the Saracens (Sarraceni) occupied while the king was at Damietta, and Sidon, all of which the Christians held before the king’s arrival. The brother asks for prayers for the brothers of the Hospital of St John who had died. He believes that there were as many as 140 of them. He ends by criticizing prelates, and in particular a Dominican friar, who advised against accepting much better terms – the truce agreed in 1241 by Earl Richard of Cornwall (comes Ricardus), together with Jerusalem, Ascalon and Tiberias – while the army was camped at Mansurah. He criticizes the pope, who had refused to follow the good advice of the Emperor Frederick, advice that he hopes will still be followed. He has sent a shortened version of this letter to his brothers in France, but he is transmitting this longer version [to his unknown correspondent] and will write again if there are new developments.
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 6:191-97, no. 95; Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:687, no. 2521; RRH 1191
comments: Note: *For the idea that the author was a Hospitaller, rather than a Templar, see Jackson, The Seventh Crusade, p. 99, n. 153. English translation in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, pp. 99-103
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RRR: 2788
year: 1250
text: October 18. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot of Saint Samuel of Acre (Acconensis), relating that he was told on behalf of the vice-master and the brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem (Jerosolimitanum) that they and their predecessors granted their tithes, castles, estates (villas), possessions, jurisdictions, and rights belonging to the Hospital to several regular and secular clerics and layfolk, to some of them perpetually, to some for a term (ad firmam), and to several for a long time, which greatly harmed the Hospital, involving oaths, penalties, letters and other public instruments, and even papal letters in common form. Thus the vice-master and brothers asked the pope the assist, so the pope orders the addressee, the above things notwithstanding, to recall to the Hospital's property and right the goods of the Hospital that he finds to have been alienated and taken away because of such concessions, forcing those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure, appeal put aside.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:699, no. 2542; RRH 1193a
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RRR: 2789
year: 1250
text: October 26. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the provost and chapter of Genoa, relating that, since he recently named the papal chamberlain N[iccolò Lercari], master of schools of the church of Genoa, as pastor (archbishop) of the church of Tyre, he orders the addressees to receive as canon and brother in Genoa N[iccolò Lercari]’s nephew Niccolò canon of Reims or his agent, assigning to him a prebend as soon as possible, notwithstanding various obstacles, including the fact that Niccolò is otherwise beneficed. The execution of the papal provision is entrusted to the provost of San Pietro della Porta in the diocese of Genoa with the faculty of using ecclesiastical censure if needed.
sources: Guerello, Lettere di Innocenzo IV, pp. 91-92, no. 58; Ferretto, ‘I Genovesi in Oriente nel carteggio di Innocenzo IV’, pp. 362-63, no. XXXV
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RRR: 2790
year: 1250
text: October 26. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the bishop of Lydda and the archdeacon of Nazareth, relating that once, when the church of Tyre was vacant, and Master Filippo canon of Tripoli, the chaplain of the cardinal-priest of Santa Sabina H[ugues de Saint-Cher], had been elected its pastor, and finally the business of his election had been brought to the examination of the Apostolic See, when the dispute over this before the pope had gone on for a long time, the same master, choosing the common good over private utility, and wishing to avoid damage to that church lest the long vacancy cause it serious spiritual and temporal loss, resigned whatever right he had from the election into the hands of the pope and humbly asked that the pope provide the church with a worthy pastor. The pope appointed his chamberlain N[iccolò Lercari], now [archbishop-]elect, then canon of Tripoli, as archbishop and pastor, and, on the advice of the cardinals, provided Master F[ilippo] canon of Tripoli with the chantry, associated prebend, houses and secondary items (intrinseca et extrinseca ac illa que dicuntur minuta) along with all associated rights and appurtenances and other things that the bishop of Bethlehem G[ottifredo] dei Prefetti and the [archbishop-]elect N[iccolò] possessed in the church of Tripoli, having the master invested with these things, such that he shall reside in that church, since he freely renounced all his other ranks (dignitates) and benefices, except for the prebends with canonries that he is known to possess in the churches of Tyre and Sidon. Thus the pope ordered the vicar of the bishop-elect of Tripoli G[regorio] da Montelongo* and the chapter of Tripoli to accept the master or his agent, and he orders the addressees to ensure that the master is given a stall in the choir and a place in the chapter and put in possession of the above.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 2:254-55, no. 5390
comments: Note: *Who was in Milan. See Innocent IV, Les Registres 2:256, no. 5397
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RRR: 2791
year: 1250
text: *November 1. Genoa. Andriolo di Giacomo Parpalione of Genoa names as his agent Niccolino Spinola, son of the late Lanfranco Spinola, in order to present to the patriarch of Antioch (Opizo Fieschi) the bull of Pope Innocent IV by which Andriolo was made canon in one of the churches of the East, except for the cathedrals of Antioch, Tripoli and Acre.
sources: Ferretto, ‘I Genovesi in Oriente nel carteggio di Innocenzo IV’, p. 363, no. XXXVI
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RRR: 2792
year: 1250
text: November 28. Petrus, bishop of Valencia (episcopus Valeniensis), confirms by his seal that Theodore of Latakia and his brother George (Theodorus et Georgius frater eius de Laodicia), sons of the late Romanoldus, coming into his presence, recognized that they have placed themselves, their wives, children and movable and immovable property in the protection and keeping of the house of the Hospital at Margat. If after their deaths they should leave no children, the Hospital will have half their property and the other half will be at their disposal; but if they do leave children the Hospitallers are to let them have their inheritance. Theodore and George agree to pay the Hospitallers two besants annually for as long as they shall live in recognition of their confraternity. Witnesses: Johannes, dictus Ballivus, canon of Valencia, Raimundus Girardus the priest, magister Simon Cimentarius.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart. Hosp. 2:701, no. 2545; RRH 1194
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RRR: 2793
year: 1250
text: December 1. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV responds to the bishop and chapter of Sidon, relating that, since the city of Sidon has been destroyed and they are fatigued by the heavy labour and expense of its defence, and four persons have been received in their church as canons and brothers on the basis of papal letters, he grants that they cannot be forced to accept anyone else via a papal letter not making explicit mention of this indulgence.
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 2:184, no. 5049
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RRR: 2794
year: 1250
text: December 10. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the bishop-elect of Tripoli, granting him the faculty of receiving two clerics as brothers and canons in the church of Tripoli and providing them with prebends, as long as the pope has not given him the same grace for others, forcing those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure, various obstacles notwithstanding.
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 22, f. 45v, no. 323, for start and end. Innocent IV, Les registres, 2:187, no. 5067
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RRR: 2795
year: 1250
text: December 23. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishop of Nicosia (Ugo da Fagiano), granting him that no papal delegate, subdelegate, executor, or conservator can promulgate a sentence of excommunication, interdict, or suspension against him or forbid him from entering church, through papal letters not making full and express mention of this indulgence.
sources: Coureas and Schabel, The Cartulary, pp. 106-7, no. 20; Schabel et al., Bullarium, 1:385-86, no. e-43
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