Displaying 471 - 480 of 527
RRR: 3226
year: 1257
text: November 22. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the knighthood of the Lepers of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, wishing to lighten the suffering of their miserable condition. The pope has decided to allow them to receive up to 200 silver marks from money gained via usury, robbery, or other evil ways – as long as the those to whom the money must be restored cannot be found at all – and from earlier redemptions of crusading vows done on the authority of diocesans, except for that of Jerusalem, if they have not received a similar grace from the pope. If they leave, return, or give any of the 200 marks to those from whom they have received it, that returned money cannot serve for their liberation and they are not at all absolved with respect to that.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:722-23, no. 2341
cite:
RRR: 3227
year: 1257
text: December 7. Viterbo. Bishop [Opizo] of Tripoli (Tripolitanus) is a witness of a verdict of Cardinal-Deacon Ottobono of San Adriano in a quarrel between the monks of Sassovivo and the late bishop of Orvieto [Costantino dei Medici].
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:761-64, no. 2448
cite:
RRR: 3228
year: 1257
text: December 13. Viterbo. Alexander IV writes to the provost of the church Cavaillon (Cavellicensis), relating that the preceptor of the Hospital of Jerusalem de Maraclea complained to him that Bertrandus de Folquetis and some other laymen of the diocese Sisteron (Sestaricensis) are harming them over lands, debts, possessions, and other things, so he orders the addressees to summon the parties, hear the case, decide it with a proper end without appeal, and have his decision firmly observed by ecclesiastical censure.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:853-54, no. 2887; RRH 1262a
cite:
RRR: 3229
year: 1257
text: December 22. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Hugo (Hugues de Nissun), administrator of the church of Sebaste (Sebastiensis), papal chaplain, relating that he was shown the administrator’s petition asserting that Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, considering the administrator’s devotion to him and the church of Jerusalem and its members, with the consent of the prior and chapter of the church of Jerusalem, made Hugo prior of the then vacant priory of La Vigneraie (Vignareia) in the diocese Limoges (Lemovicensis), which belongs to the church of Jerusalem, and also committed to Hugo the administration of all churches and priories belonging to the church of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of France. The pope confirms and strengthens this arrangement.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:753, no. 2413
cite:
RRR: 3230
year: 1258
text: December 29. Viterbo. Under pain of excommunication, Pope Alexander IV confirms the verdict of the cardinal-deacon of San Adriano, Ottobono [Fieschi], which was issued in presence of Bishop Opizco (Opizo) of Tripoli (Tripolitanus) on 7 December 1257.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:761-64, no. 2448; see RRR 3227
cite:
RRR: 3231
year: 1258
text: January 2. (1257 o.s.). Tyre. Epitaph of iaque lesaboni. (Yaq‘ūb al-Saboni).
sources: Claverie, ‘Les difficultés’, pp. 74-75
cite:
RRR: 3232
year: 1258
text: January 15. (1257 o.s.) Sidon. Julien lord of Sayete and Beaufort sells to William of Chastel Neuf (Guillaume de Chasteau Nuef), the Hospitaller master, and his convent three casaus in his lordship of Sayete for 5,000 Saracen besants. One, Maroenie, is situated in the clym Essomar. To the east is cazal of Guillaume Meingot named Zefta; to the south a cazal of the bishop named Teffahata; to the west Doardie el Hadidi and to the norther Messeigeha. The others, Háánouf / Ahánouf / Hánouf and Daraya lie in the clym el Karroub. Ahánouf is bordered on the east by the casal of Johan de Fenion named La Geleilie; to the south by two casaus belonging to Balian de Mimarz named La Zahrorie and Bequifs; to the east Oedi el Hámmem to the south the aforesaid Hánouf and Esshym; to the west Borgem belonging to Gervaise Amoros, and to the north the aforesaid Oedi el Hámmem and the land of Johan Pisan. Julien sells these three casauz with their gastines: Bothma, Ecfareisson, Kárbet el Ezairac, Ecfardebess, Bedagon el Hámmem, Toreille el Sefargelis and their appurtenances. All this is to be held without service. Sealed with his lead seal of the lordship of Sayete and witnessed by the homes: Johan de la Tor constable of Sidon, Johan Harneis marshal of Sidon, Ffelipe de Beaufort, Estienne de Sauveigni, Gautier Macayre, Jofroi de Viliers, Johan Pisan, Johan de Nibar, Johan dou Chastel.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:836-37, no. 2852; RRH 1257
cite:
RRR: 3233
year: 1258
text: *February 20. (1257 o.s.). Julien, lord of Sidon, grants permission to William of Chastel Neuf (Guillaume de Châteauneuf) to buy casaux or lands in his lordship rendering 1,000 Saracen besants in rent, provided that there is no loss of knights’ service and promising to confirm all his purchases.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cart Hosp 2:839, no. 2856; RRH 1257a
cite:
RRR: 3234
year: 1258
text: February 27. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes for the record, concerning the marriage dispute between Queen Placentia of Cyprus and the nobleman Balianus [of Ibelin], son of Johannes [of Ibelin], lord of Arsur (Azoto). The pope relates that the Apostolic See committed the case to Archbishop [Hugo] of Nicosia and Bishop [Stephanus] of Famagusta, before whom the queen petitioned that her de facto marriage with Balianus and everything stemming from that be annulled, since de iure they could not marry because her late husband, King [Henry I] of Cyprus, was related to Balianus in the third degree of consanguinity. The case was fought legitimately with sworn accusations, depositions and responses to them heard, and witnesses admitted for certain articles. Afterwards the pope committed the case to Archbishops [Gilles] of Tyre and [Joscelin] of Caesaria (Cesariensis), who finally referred it back to the Apostolic See, having fixed a deadline for the parties to appear before the pope with all materials concerning the case. So with the procurators of the parties in the pope’s presence, when the trial before the aforesaid judges was understood, the litigants argued at great length before Cardinal-Bishop [István Báncsa] of Palestrina (Penestrinus), whom the pope named as auditor in the case. The queen’s procurators in her name asked the auditor to proceed to a definitive sentence according to the libel and the trial done before the previous judges. Balianus’ procurators responded that what was petitioned should not be granted because the queen and Balianus had taken an oath to marry each other if a dispensation for the affinity between them were obtained from the Apostolic See within a year. They said that the marriage took place before this was obtained, but, at the request of the queen and Balianus, Pope Innocentius [IV] granted the dispensation, destroying the impediment of their affinity. On the contrary, the queen’s procurators stated that, before the dispensation was obtained, the queen ceased living with Balian and, after she was made aware of the dispensation, she protested in public and many times that she did not want Balianus for a husband and that she did not accept the dispensation at all. The queen’s procurators also added that said oath was not sworn absolutely, but on the condition that the queen would marry Balianus if it pleased her brother, Prince [Bohemond VI] of Antioch, who never consented to this, but rather persisted in his continual opposition. They also said that the dispensation was not obtained according to the tenor of the oath, nor did it bind them to remain in the marriage, but left it to the choice of their own will. Given the above, the pope, with the cardinals’ advice, determines that the marriage did not take place or that it is annulled, along with anything stemming from it. And since on the pretext of the marriage Balian took over the kingdom and other property of the queen, the pope determines that the kingdom is to be restored to the queen in her name and in the name of her child, King Hugo [II] of Cyprus, as are her other movable and immovable properties, condemning Balian’s procurators in his name and Balianus himself through them to make this restoration. After these things have been completely and fully restored to the queen and she is in peaceful possession of them, however, if Balianus wishes to force her to marry him on the basis of the oath and to pursue this in court, the pope will allow him the fullness of justice.
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:782-83, no. 2510; Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:493-96, no. f-31; trans. D’Avray, Dissolving Royal Marriages, pp. 105-7
comments: Note: The dispensation is not present in the papal registers.
cite:
RRR: 3235
year: 1258
text: March 5. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Gilles] of Tyre, relating that he understood from the archbishop’s petition that he constructed with his own goods the hospital of Blessed Martin the Confessor in Acre (Acconensis), in which a multitude of sick, weak, and poor hear the divine offices via a papal indulgence. The pope wishes this indulgence to be widened, so he grants that these sick, weak, and poor can receive the ecclesiastical sacraments from the chaplain of the hospital, without prejudice to the parish priest, as long as they are not excommunicates, those under interdict by name, or public usurers.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, ‘Titres’, p. 429, no. 4; RRH 1216
cite:
Cite this entry
The form names the RRR number and, where the entry records them, its original source details — as the project’s house style asks. The access date updates itself.
MLA 9
Save to a reference manager
Drupal to Wordpress port and reimagining Dr Anthony Harris (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
Email: awh28 [at] cam.ac.uk. Copyright © 2026, All rights reserved.Originally Drupalized By: Reut & Avishay.