RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
1975
year: 1225
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: Magister of the Knights Templar
institution: Templars
text: Jan. 10. Lateran. The bishop of Tortosa [Anteradensis episcopus] has complained to Pope Honorius III about the behaviour of the Knights Templar. Lordship of the city of Tortosa is divided between the bishop and the Templars, but the latter, breaking the terms of division laid down a century ago, have ignored the bishop’s lordship [dominium], treating his part as their own, taking control of the city gate that belongs to the church, publicly proclaiming [bannum proclamare] that they have full rights and impeding the operation of the bishop’s meat market [becaria] and the freedom of merchants to sell his grain and wine. They have built 2 new churches in their part of the city, in which they have installed Greek priests [Greci presbyteri] in defiance of the bishop and the Holy See. They have refused to pay their dues, including tithes, to the bishopric, according to the evidence provided by their own rustici Sarraceni, and they have detained tribute paid by [the town of] Coeblum. They have denied the bishop his parochial rights at Castellum Album. The pope gravely rebukes the magister and brothers of the Knights Templar. He orders them to make satisfaction and informs them that he has ordered the archbishops of Tyre and Caesarea and the bishop of Acre to enforce his judgement.
Jan. 10. Lateran. The bishop of Tortosa [Anteradensis episcopus] has complained to Pope Honorius III about the behaviour of the Knights Templar. Lordship of the city of Tortosa is divided between the bishop and the Templars, but the latter, breaking the terms of division laid down a century ago,... more
sources: Claverie, Honorius, pp. 403-5, no. 89
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
2146
year: 1231
initiator: Pope Gregory IX
recipient: Magister of the Knights Templar
institution: Templars
text: Feb. 26. Lateran. Pope Gregory IX transmits to the magister of the Knights Templar the complaints of the emperor Frederick that the Order has refused to accept the truce he has made with the Muslims and has gone to war, in spite of the prohibition of his balivus and the threatened attack of the rex Persarum, with the result that many milites peregrini have become prisoners-of-war. The pope forbids the Templars to act in this way.
Feb. 26. Lateran. Pope Gregory IX transmits to the magister of the Knights Templar the complaints of the emperor Frederick that the Order has refused to accept the truce he has made with the Muslims and has gone to war, in spite of the prohibition of his balivus and the threatened attack of the rex... more
sources: Rodenberg, Epistolae 1:345-6, no. 427
RRR: Permission/licence/authorization
2302
year: 1237
initiator: Pope Gregory IX
recipient: Magister of the Knights Templar
institution: Templars
text: Oct. 28. Lateran. Pope Gregory IX authorizes the magister of the knights Templar to supplement from their funds in the Holy Land money collected from the redemption of vows together with other cash collected from the province of Sens.
Oct. 28. Lateran. Pope Gregory IX authorizes the magister of the knights Templar to supplement from their funds in the Holy Land money collected from the redemption of vows together with other cash collected from the province of Sens.
sources: Gregory IX, Les Registres 2:797, no. 3924