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RRR: 3136
year: 1256
text: February 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, papal legate, granting him the faculty of providing by himself or through another six clerics with a single prebendal or other benefice, with or without care of souls, in the cathedrals or other churches of his legation, but maximum one per church; of having them or their procurators received in those churches, as canons and brothers if they are collegiate; and of restraining those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure without appeal, the statute on a fixed number of canons and any other statute, custom, or indulgence notwithstanding. If the benefices have care of souls, the persons receiving them must reside there in person and have themselves promoted to the orders required by that care according to the established times.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:352, no. 1162
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RRR: 3137
year: 1256
text: February 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the regular or secular canons and clerics subject to the church of Sebaste (Sebastiensis) as above, asking, urging, and ordering them to welcome Hugo de Nisum when he reaches them, treat him with due respect, and assist him or his nuncios or procurators in the administration committed to him. The pope writes similar letters to the canons of the church of Sebaste (Sebastiensis) whether they are in Outremer or on this side of the sea; to the people of the city of Sebaste (Sebastiensis) [18 February]; and to the [arch]bishop of Caesarea (Cesariensis).
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:347-48, no. 1152a
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RRR: 3138
year: 1256
text: February 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV informs the canonici and religious and secular clergy of the diocese of Sebaste (Sebastea), both in the Levant and in Europe, and the people of the town of Sebaste (Sebastea), of the appointment of Hugo de Nisum as administrator of the bishopric and orders them to be obedient to him. He also recommends Hugo to the archbishop of Caesarea.
sources: Alexander IV, Les Registres 1:347-48, no. 1152
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RRR: 3139
year: 1256
text: February 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Hugo de Nisum, papal chaplain, canon of the Lord's Sepulchre of Jerusalem, answering his prayers by granting that he shall always remain a canon of the Lord's Sepulchre of Jerusalem notwithstanding that the procuration, care, and administration of the vacant bishopric of Sebaste (Sebastiensis), now held by the enemies of the faith, has been committed to him.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:348, no. 1153
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RRR: 3140
year: 1256
text: February 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master, preceptors, convents, and all the brothers of the Hospital of St John in the province of Jerusalem, relating that since he has committed the office of full legation to Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem both in the province of Jerusalem and in the Christian army for the aid to the Holy Land wherever it is in that province, he orders them to receive, treat, and assist him as a legate of the Apostolic See, indeed more truly as the pope in him, accepting and observing his healthy warning and orders as long as he carries out his legation, any indulgence notwithstanding unless it make full and explicit mention of this letter. The pope writes similar letters to the master, convent, and all the brothers of St Lazarus in the province of Jerusalem; to the master, preceptors, convents, and all the brothers of the house of the knighthood of the Temple in the province of Jerusalem; and to the master, convents, and all the brothers of the houses of St Mary of the Teutonics in the province of Jerusalem.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:352, no. 1161
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RRR: 3141
year: 1256
text: February 21. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Opizo Fieschi] of Antioch, papal legate, relating that the Turkoman and other enemies of the Christian name have continually increased their bellicose incursions in the land of Antioch so much that they have laid waste to everything outside the city of Antioch and Castle Quṣair (Cursarium ), which belongs to the Antioch Church. Since on account of this the patriarch’s incomes had dropped too low to support himself properly, the pope’s predecessor I[nnocent IV] wished to help him lest the land be occupied by the infidels and thus endanger the Holy Land. [Innocent] wrote to the abbot of Cistercian Jubino (Jubin), in the diocese of Antioch, to provide for the patriarch with the first vacant archbishopric or bishopric in the Kingdom of Cyprus or province of Antioch, to be held by the patriarch until peace returned to him and his patriarchate. Innocent also prohibited the chapters of the cathedrals in those areas from electing or appointing a successor should a church become vacant in the meantime, reserving for himself the collation of the first vacant see. Pope Alexander later confirmed this with a letter to the same abbot, ordering him to proceed according to [Innocent’s] directions. Since the pope knows that the see of Limassol (Nimotiensis) is now vacant following the transfer of Bishop B[artholomeus] to the church Vicenza (Vicentina), the pope wants the patriarch or his representatives to take over the care and administration of the church of Limassol in its spiritual and temporal affairs, and to receive its income, until peace returns to his patriarchate.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:358, no. 1175; Haluscynskyj and Wojnar, Acta Alexandri IV, pp. 24-25, no. 19; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:479-80, no. f-20
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RRR: 3142
year: 1256
text: February 21. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the chapter of the church of Limassol (Nimotiensis) as in the previous letter, orders them to welcome and obey the patriarch of Antioch [Opizo Fieschi] or his procurators or vicars with humility and devotion. The pope writes the same letter to the clergy of the city and diocese of Limassol and to the nobles and people of the city and diocese.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:358, no. 1176; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:480-81, no. f-21
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RRR: 3143
year: 1256
text: February 23. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem and to Archbishop [Gilles de Saumur] of Tyre (Tyrensis), relating that Signoretus, cleric of Acre (Acconensis), recently obtained a letter from the pope to certain executors on a reception and provision for him in the church of Acre (Acconensis). At the insistence of the bishop of Acre (Acconensis) the pope ordered that the cleric be summoned while he was still at the papal curia, so that he would put his letter into the hands of G., master of schools in Parma (Parmensis), papal vice-chancellor. Although he understood the summons, he did not wish to appear before G. afterwards or turn over the letter. Indeed rather he was so defiant that, thinking little of the papal order, he is said to have returned to his parts. Lest S. glory in his contempt of the papal order and in his defiance, the pope orders the addressees to prohibit the executors from proceeding in S.'s reception and provision in that church via this letter, and if perhaps they have proceeded in anything, they shall revoke it. Otherwise they are to declare null and void anything done by the executors concerning this reception and provision.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:356-57, no. 1168
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RRR: 3144
year: 1256
text: February 24. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV grants the prior generalis and the diffinitores of the Hermits of Mt Carmel the right to legislate to remove any ambiguities in their Rule.
sources: Alexander IV, Les Registres 1:361, no. 1186
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RRR: 3145
year: 1256
text: March 5. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Gilles] of Tyre (Tyrensis), relating that he learned from the archbishop's petition that, with the assent of the master and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, he ordered constructed with his own goods a hospital for poor Breton pilgrims from the city and province of Tours (Turonensis) coming to Outremer, in a certain house in the city of Acre owing rent (censuali) to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Cardinal-Bishop [Eudes de Châteauroux] of Tusculum (Tusculanus), then papal legate in those parts, established and granted on his legatine authority that an oratory be built in said house, an altar be erected in honour of Blessed Martin the Confessor, and a bell be had in it also, such that the oblations given to it be converted to the support of said paupers staying there, saving the right of the parish church, as is more fully contained in the cardinal’s letter on this. At the archbishop’s request, the pope ratifies, confirms, and strengthens this, inserting Cardinal-Bishop Odo of Tusculum (Tusculanus)’s letter verbatim, dated 29 August 1254 (see RRR 3003). Odo's letter specifies that Aegydius was then archbishop elect, that the house is on the Street (vico) of the English, that he bought the house anew from Thomas Cordario, that Blessed Martin was gloriosissimus and shared his pallium (cloak) in winter with a pauper, that alms and offerings during Mass would be used for the residents, that the bell would ring for Masses and hours, and that the residents and those who officiate in the oratory shall be subject to the bishop of Acre (Acconensis).
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 1:382, no. 1274; Delaville Le Roulx, L’hôpital des Bretons à Saint-Jean d’Acre au treizième siècle, pp. 13-16, no. 1; RRH 1216
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