RRR: Correspondence/envoy
1628
year: 1210
initiator: Pope Innocent III
recipient: Magister and brothers of the Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans
institution: Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans
additional institution: Templars
text: Aug. 27. Lateran. Pope Innocent III authorizes the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans in Acre to continue to wear white mantles [alba pallia] for the time being. They had been doing so on the assumption that this was intended when it was established at their foundation that they were to follow Templar military practices. The Templars have complained. Innocent has written to the patriarch of Jerusalem on the matter.
Aug. 27. Lateran. Pope Innocent III authorizes the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans in Acre to continue to wear white mantles [alba pallia] for the time being. They had been doing so on the assumption that this was intended when it was established at their foundation... more
sources: Innocent III, Die Register 13:203, no. 123