RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1787
year: 1218
initiator: Pope Honorius III
recipient: All the clergy and the laity in the Latin East
text: May 18. Rome. St Peter’s. Pope Honorius III writes to all the clergy and laity in the Latin East [in transmarinis partibus] attributing the failure of crusades in the past to the sins of the Christian people, exhorting them to piety in the face of the approaching crusade, the success of which has been foresignalled by achievements in Spain, and informing them of the appointment of Cardinal Pelagius of Albano as papal legate.
May 18. Rome. St Peter’s. Pope Honorius III writes to all the clergy and laity in the Latin East [in transmarinis partibus] attributing the failure of crusades in the past to the sins of the Christian people, exhorting them to piety in the face of the approaching crusade, the success of which has... more
sources: Schabel, Bullarium 1:194-6, no. c-14; also ed. Claverie, Honorius, pp. 330-2, no. 31