year: 1247
text: April 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to [Henry I], king of Cyprus and lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, exhorting him to spare no labour or expense in improving the status of ‘the land where Jesus Christ chose to be born, preach and die for the redemption of the human race’, which land has been struck by various calamities because of sins. The king’s efforts can compensate for this and contribute to his honour, the exaltation of the Roman Church and the salvation of the faithful. By following the pope’s advice, the monarch will earn eternal beatitude as well as perpetual praise and the spiritual support of the pope.
April 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to [Henry I], king of Cyprus and lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, exhorting him to spare no labour or expense in improving the status of ‘the land where Jesus Christ chose to be born, preach and die for the redemption of the human race’, which land has been... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:376, no. 2531; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:362-63, no. e-21
year: 1247
text: April 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), relating that a new religious order (religio) is said to have appeared in Outremer, which employs a cross of black leather, such that the master and brothers of the hospital of St Mary of the Teutonic Order suffer serious scandal, especially since this sign is so close to their own that those wearing it are mistaken for Teutonic knights. The Teutonic master and knights asked the pope to have the cross of the other order made so that it is seen as different from their own. The pope orders the addressee to deal with the matter as he sees fit.
April 17. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), relating that a new religious order (religio) is said to have appeared in Outremer, which employs a cross of black leather, such that the master and brothers of the hospital of St Mary of the... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:380, no. 2556
year: 1247
text: April 24. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary and legate Brother Lawrence [of Portugal], relating that the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes) explained to him via petition that he has a quantity of money from bequests of the deceased, a part of which is paid to the poor and sick and the captives in Cairo (Babylon), the rest being for similar uses, but the addressee is trying to force him to repay the money on papal authority. The pope orders the addressee not to harass the patriarch concerning the restitution of this money, which the pope wants the patriarch, with the advice of the master of the Templars, to pay to the aforesaid poor and captives.
April 24. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary and legate Brother Lawrence [of Portugal], relating that the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes) explained to him via petition that he has a quantity of money from bequests of the deceased, a part of which is paid... more
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 21, ff. 379v-380r, no. 588; Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:385, no. 2585
year: 1247
text: April 27. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot of Marola e Campagnola in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, the vicar of the bishop of Tripoli, relating that the abbot told him that he was not yet able to receive his benediction as abbot for his monastery, which pertains directly to the pope, so the pope grants that he can receive his benediction from a catholic bishop in Outremer.
April 27. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot of Marola e Campagnola in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, the vicar of the bishop of Tripoli, relating that the abbot told him that he was not yet able to receive his benediction as abbot for his monastery, which pertains directly to the pope, so... more
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 21, f. 380v, no. 595; Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:387, no. 2592
year: 1247
text: May 6. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the papal legate Cardinal-Deacon O[ttaviano Ubaldini] da Santa Maria in Via Lata, responding to the prayers of the doge and popolo of Venice, whom he praises, by ordering the addressee to receive as the right and property of St Peter the churches of St Mark of Tyre and of St Mark of Acre, which belong to the church of St Mark of Venice, firmly forbidding anyone from presuming to exercise jurisdiction over them without papal mandate, establishing that as a token of this freedom the ‘primicerius’ (primicherius) and chapter of St Mark of Venice shall pay to the Apostolic See a certain sum annually on a fixed date in the name of the churches of St Mark of Tyre and of St Mark of Acre.
May 6. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the papal legate Cardinal-Deacon O[ttaviano Ubaldini] da Santa Maria in Via Lata, responding to the prayers of the doge and popolo of Venice, whom he praises, by ordering the addressee to receive as the right and property of St Peter the churches of St Mark... more
sources: ASV, Reg. Vat. 21, f. 427v, no. 114; Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:454, no. 3030; Tafel and Thomas, Urkunden 2:445-46, no. 312; RRH 1148
year: 1247
text: May 11. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishops and bishops who receive this letter, relating that, although the Church needs financial support for urgent business, they shall not exact anything for this reason from the Temple and the Hospital of Jerusalem or their persons, because they depend on aid from their houses and churches in the West (cismarinis) because of the miserable plight has befallen them [in the East] (propter miserabilem casum qui eis accidit). The addressees shall protect the friars in their cities and dioceses from harassment, revoking as void anything done against them on this pretext.
May 11. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishops and bishops who receive this letter, relating that, although the Church needs financial support for urgent business, they shall not exact anything for this reason from the Temple and the Hospital of Jerusalem or their persons, because they... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:401, no. 2692
year: 1247
text: June 4. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary and legate, brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), relating that when the pope asked him to protect the Greeks from Latin harassment when sending him as legate in Armenia, Konya, Turkey, Greece, the Kingdom of Babylon and in the patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem, and to have the Latins make satisfaction for any harm they had done, he did not wish to interfere with the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), who has informed the pope that the addressee had prohibited him from involving himself with the Greeks of his patriarchate and now those Greeks claim to be exempt from his jurisdiction, refuse to obey him and do not respond to court summons. The pope orders the addressee to cease interfering with the patriarch’s jurisdiction.
June 4. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to his penitentiary and legate, brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), relating that when the pope asked him to protect the Greeks from Latin harassment when sending him as legate in Armenia, Konya, Turkey, Greece, the Kingdom of... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:409, no. 2745; Acta Innocentii IV, pp. 78-9, no. 35; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:363-64, no. e-22. See also RRR 2537, 2592
year: 1247
text: June 5. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishop of Tyre, relating that a petition from the bishop and chapter of Beirut claimed that, in the serious quarrel that once arose over diocesan borders between them, on the one side, and the bishop and chapter of Sidon, on the other, which was litigated for a long time before the addressee’s predecessor, the late P[ierre de Sergines], their metropolitan, on his ordinary authority, the case was not brought to an end, because of the lack of proof on both sides, since that land was once occupied by the Saracens. To avoid permanent litigation or continuing grounds for new dispute or scandal, the pope orders the addressee, the metropolitan of both sides, to go in person to the disputed region and establish the borders of the diocese via a friendly agreement or in some other way as he sees fit, implementing his decision without appeal and carrying out the papal mandate in such a way that both bishops and chapters are content and neither side applies its scythe to the other’s harvest.
June 5. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishop of Tyre, relating that a petition from the bishop and chapter of Beirut claimed that, in the serious quarrel that once arose over diocesan borders between them, on the one side, and the bishop and chapter of Sidon, on the other, which was... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:408, no. 2803
year: 1247
text: June 10. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), the archbishop of Tyre and the bishop of Sidon, relating that the bishop of Acre (Raoul de Tournai) informed him via his petition that a predecessor of his, the late bishop Theobald of Acre, at the instigation of the Pisans then living in Acre, turned the chapel of San Pietro the Pisan of Acre into a parish church and established that all Pisans living in the city were parishioners of that church, causing serious harm to the church of Acre. Since they adhered to the former Emperor Frederick [II] against the Church, the Pisans deserve to be deprived of all ecclesiastical privilege, grace and honour, so the pope declares null and void the above and any agreements or pacts between the Pisans and the bishop of Acre, notwithstanding any confirmations, indulgence or privilege obtained from the Apostolic See over these matters, and he orders the addressees to restore the previous status of the chapel, to announce the Pisans deprived of the above, and to compel them with ecclesiastical censure to receive the ecclesiastical sacraments from the church of Acre and to obey the bishop as their ordinary, after a warning, appeal put aside. If not all of the addressees can carry this out, [then two or one can].
June 10. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), the archbishop of Tyre and the bishop of Sidon, relating that the bishop of Acre (Raoul de Tournai) informed him via his petition that a predecessor of his, the late bishop Theobald of Acre,... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:417-18, no. 2801. Cf. Document of 12 October 1200, RRR 1475; RRH 775
year: 1247
text: June 12. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the podestà and the commune of Novara, relating that he has learned from the serious complaint of the archdeacon of Antioch that, when he was going to the Apostolic See for the business of the church of Antioch and had arrived at the port of Mergozzo in the diocese of Novara, some sons of iniquity who claimed to have been assigned by the addressees to guard the port maliciously asserted that he was carrying commercial merchandise and dared to detain his bags. While many people ran to the port because of this, 622 gold coins (aurei) and 35 imperial pounds, which the chapter of Antioch was sending to [patriarch-]elect [Opizo Fieschi], were stolen from one of these bags. The pope orders the addressees to have what was taken by the people of that place restored without delay. Otherwise, the addressees should know that he has sent a letter to Bishop [Odemaro Buzio] of Novara ordering him to force them to do this via ecclesiastical censure, after a warning, without appeal.
June 12. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the podestà and the commune of Novara, relating that he has learned from the serious complaint of the archdeacon of Antioch that, when he was going to the Apostolic See for the business of the church of Antioch and had arrived at the port of Mergozzo in... more
sources: Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:428, no. 2862