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RRR: 3216
year: 1257
text: August 20. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem concerning the above (RRR 3215), verbis competenter mutandis.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:666-67, no. 2175
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RRR: 3217
year: 1257
text: September 6. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Opizo Fieschi] of Antioch, who, it is said, has been assigned by the Apostolic See the care of spiritual and temporal affairs of the church of Limassol (Nimociensis), responding to his requests by granting full exemption from the spiritual jurisdiction of Archbishop [Hugo] of Nicosia, the metropolitan of the church, so that the archbishop cannot on his metropolitan authority exercise ecclesiastical censure or spiritual jurisdiction of any kind over the patriarch, his household, vicars, or baillis in the church Limassol or on the churches or lands or any members of the clergy or people of the city or diocese for four years. The pope annuls any sentences and anything else attempted against this indulgence. Otherwise the archbishop is to exercise whatever rights he has, since the pope does not wish to cause any prejudice to him by this.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:672, no. 2191; Haluscynskyj and Wojnar, Acta Alexandri IV, pp. 72-73, no. 37; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:492-93, no. f-30
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RRR: 3218
year: 1257
text: September 13. Nicosia. Regulation against usurers of Archbishop Hugo (Ugo da Fagiano) of Cyprus, which he read to the populace in the church of Sancta Sophia after the sermon. Despite general efforts against usury, usurious contracts are made in public under the guise of simulated sales, when the person needing to borrow buys cloths, wax, silk, or other things for a price much greater than the value and then is forced to sell them to the original seller or someone else for a price much less than the value, thus being doubly deceived, receiving barely half of what is pretended to be sold or bought, the rest amounting to interest above the limit, fictitiously called a “penalty”. This deception has grown to the point where nothing is bought or sold, but a mere verbal contract is made with the names of goods unseen, untraded, or not even possessed. Sometimes a person borrowing 80 is forced to profess that he received 100, to be paid on a certain date on pain of a penalty. Generally the entire sum [of 100] is handed over before a public official, but the debtor repays part of the money [immediately] as part of the agreement. As a result, only time is sold. The archbishop sees this as a spreading cancer in Cyprus and especially in Nicosia. He has long forbidden public contracts of this sort on pain of excommunication, along with the participation of notaries and scribes in drawing them up, the serving as guarantors or debtors of knights and others, and he has forbidden the mediators, called sensales in the vernacular, from handling or promoting such contracts, called barrattas in the vulgar tongue. His efforts have had no effect, so he will deal with this with a heavier hand, not only forbidding all above participants on pain of excommunication these or similar contracts in the city and diocese of Nicosia, but also declaring them null and void, such that no one can have recourse to an ecclesiastical or even secular judge for complaints or exceptions involving these contracts, even if those making the contracts are under ecclesiastical jurisdiction or swear an oath.
sources: Schabel, Synodicum Nicosiense, pp. 108-11, no. A.XXIX
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RRR: 3219
year: 1257
text: September 22. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Bishop [Opizo] of Tripoli (Tripolitanus), relating that in the pope’s presence the bishop proposed that he had gone to great expense in coming to the Apostolic See for his and his church’s business, and that lest this business be left unaccomplished for lack of money, he asked to be able to borrow. The pope allows the bishop to take out a loan of up to 10,000 gold Saracen besants of Acre (Accon) at the weight Acconense and to oblige himself, his successors, and his church, such that the bishop and his successors are obliged to repay the loan with damages, expenses, and interest if he does not repay within the deadline.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:779, no. 2500
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RRR: 3220
year: 1257
text: September 1 – 30. Acre. Florentius, bishop of Arce (episcopus Acconensis), and his chapter record that they have reached agreement under seal with frater Anno, magister, and the convent of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, which is residing in Acre. Following an old agreement, the bishop claims a rent of 1 marcha argenti for the Order’s church, payable each year to the church of Acre on the Feast of the Purification, and obedience from the capellanus who serves in the church. He claims full tithes for the lands in the diocese of Acre worked by the magister and brothers or at their expense, with particular reference to the produce of the casalia of Bassa, Massob, Cafriasim, Busenen and Saphet. He believes that the church of Acre was despoiled of tithes at the casale called Noye. He maintains that the magister and brothers should compel their villani and rustici to pay full tithes on that portion of the produce which they retain for cultivation or any other reason. He claims full tithes on the Order’s mills. He wants the delivery of the tithes to his house in Castrum Regis and he requires an annual rent of 40 besants, to cover the possessions left by Benencasa, a burgensis of Castrum Regis, and subsequently acquired by the brothers of St Mary. He demands that he and his familia be no longer molested by the Order. For their part, the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans claim that their ignorance of the lands and possessions they had gained, and the way the lands were worked, resulted in an inadequate estimate of the extent of noval and other exempt lands, and led to an overpayment to the bishop and chapter of 24,000 Saracen besants, while their losses on houses, vineyards, gardens and lands at Castrum Regis, which the bishop held iure dominii from them, amounted to 30,000 Saracen besants. They also demand 1,000 Saracen besants as a penalty for the bishop’s contumacy. After the mediation of friends, the following agreement has been reached. The Hospital of St Mary will pay a fifth part of the tithes on the produce of lands which they have worked themselves or have had worked on their behalf. This relates to wheat, barley, pulses, lentils, beans, oats, melica (meliqua), cotton (coctonum), millet (milium), maize, peas (pisaus), sheaves (gerbains) and everything planted in the ground. Also included are vine, charagium (carragium), oil, suomet olium, counting of goats (computagium caprarum), bees, exenia villanorum, payable 3 times a year, at Christmas, Lent and Easter, the denarii paid for chickens, eggs and cheese, and all trees, except for those in the gardens and of the villani. Exempted, however, are carriage (portagium) to the threshing floors, scribanage (scribanagium), weights and measures (mensuragium), wardship (gardagium), scenequie, and the rights of Ysembardus and Lambertus in the casalia, which they had customarily enjoyed before this agreement. Also excluded are the woods on the hillside, which are reserved for the bishop, for firewood and making fences. The bishop may have his share of the tithes from the casalia beyond the cavea carried at the expense of the brothers of St Mary to his house in Castrum Regis, although he may give a loaf of bread to the villanus who undertakes this task. Should the magister and brothers of St Mary create sugar plantations or saltings, the bishop will continue to be paid the fifth of the tithe, half in wheat and half in barley, as estimated by reputable men. The Order is exempted from the payment of tithes on all its mills, gardens and trees in the [territory of the] cavea that stretches from the garden of the great spring to the territory of Manuettum; its width across being the equivalent of that which can be seen by a man standing on the bank of the river at the bottom (in fundo) of the cavea, although the fifth of tithes will be paid on vineyards planted on this land. The brothers of St Mary are exempted from the payment of tithes on irrigated gardens. They will not exact anything from property bought by the church of Acre for its provisioning. They and their successors are bound to pay us and our successors one Saracen besant annually for the burgesii and tenements and one pieceof land which they now hold in Castrum Regis. This agreement applies to all lands in the diocese of Acre, noval or acquired, and especially to the casalia called Labassa, Massob, Noye, Sapheth, Cafriasy and Busenen. The magister and brothers of St Mary will pay the annual rent of 1 marcha argenti to the treasury of the church of Acre on the Feast of the Purification. Breach of this composition will incur a penalty of 3,000 marchae argenti. Witnesses: magister Guillelmus decanus; dominus Adam archidiaconus; dominus Bernardus cantor canonicus; dominus Iohannes thesaurarius canonicus; dominus Gerardus canonicus; frater Evrardus magnus preceptor domus Theutonicorum; frater Arnoldus thesaurarius domus Theutonicorum; frater Ulricus domus Theutonicorum; frater Winandus domus Theutonicorum; frater Fredericus domus Theutonicorum.
sources: Strehlke, Tabulae, pp. 91-94, no. 112; RRH 1260
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RRR: 3221
year: 1257
text: October 23. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to the bishops of Acre (Acconensis) and Fiesole (Fesulanus) , relating that Jacob (sic) Giberti, citizen and merchant of Florence, informed him that he, in his name and in the name of Raynerius, Ballindoto, Calcanius, Bonacursus, and Bene de Cetera, and of his other associates, citizens and merchants of Florence, lent 6,000 gold Saracen besants of Acre (Accon) at the weight Acconense to Bishop [Opizo da San Vitale] of Tripoli while he was at the Apostolic See, for his and his church’s business, to be repaid at a certain time and place, as contained in a public instrument. If the bishop or his successors do not repay as required, the addressees, or one of them, themselves or via another or others, are to excommunicate the bishop or his successors and announce the excommunication each Sunday and feast day, with bells ringing and candles lit, having the announcement made in all other fitting places and having all others avoid them, as long as the debt and just and moderate expenses incurred remain unpaid. If the bishop or his successors remain under this sentence for two months, the addressees are to suspend them from the administration of the spiritual and temporal affairs of their church, giving the bishop or his successors a deadline to appear in person before the pope to accept their just punishment.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:779-80, no. 2501
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RRR: 3222
year: 1257
text: October 1 – 31. At the request of the brothers of St Mary of the Germans, Patriarch James of Jerusalem, the papal legate, confirms the papal authorization of 28 July 1257.
sources: Strehlke, Tabulae, p. 388, no. 560, note; RRH 1261
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RRR: 3223
year: 1257
text: November 1. Acre. With the consent of Patriarch James of Jerusalem, the papal legate, Terricus abbas and the convent of the church of Mt Sion rent under seal houses in Acre, with upper storeys (cum solo), plateae and outbuildings, to frater Anno magister and the convent of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans in Acre for an annual rent of 309 Saracen besants in Acre weight, payable in 3 instalments of 103 besants in February, June and October. The houses are located as follows. To the east are the royal way and a house of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, which once belonged to Mt Tabor and is adjacent to them. To the west is the house of the magister and convent of the Hospital of St Mary. To the north is the royal way and to the south is the barbican of the brothers of the Hospital of St Mary. Mt Sion also rents another little house. To the east and south is the royal way. To the west is a house of the magister and convent of the Hospital of St Mary, which once belonged to comes Ioscelinus. To the north is the house of Albricus Botterius.
sources: Strehlke, Tabulae, pp. 95-96, no. 113; RRH 1262
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RRR: 3224
year: 1257
text: November 8. Viterbo. Cardinal-Bishop Odo [Eudes de Châteauroux] of Tusculum (Tusculanus) states that when he was legate in the Holy Land he acquired from the Prince of Antioch (Bohemond V d. Jan 1252 or Bohemond VI) and others worthy of trust piece of the Holy Sepulchre and relics of the saints which he had passed to Hugh, chancellor of the church of Tours. In the fourth year of Alexander IV.
sources: Claverie, ‘Une source négligée’, pp. 168-69
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RRR: 3225
year: 1257
text: November 22. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to all the Christian faithful, relating that the master and brothers of the house of the Lepers of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in Acre explained to him in a petition that they have begun to repair their hospital, which is quite old, with an expensive work, but the completion of this work exceeds their means. The pope invites the faithful of Christ to give alms and other charity for this purpose, offering donors an indulgence of 100 days, valid for five years.
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 25, f. 98r, no. 726; summary in Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:722, no. 2340
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