year: 1257
text: March 5. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch Jacobus [Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, papal legate, responding to his request by granting that Bishop Florentinus of Acre (Acconensis) cannot with any excuse or cause promulgate a sentence of excommunication, interdict, or suspension against or exercise any jurisdiction on his person, his clerics, or his other familiars because of any infraction, as long as they are not otherwise subject to the bishop, declaring null and void anything attempted by the bishop against this indulgence.
March 5. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch Jacobus [Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, papal legate, responding to his request by granting that Bishop Florentinus of Acre (Acconensis) cannot with any excuse or cause promulgate a sentence of excommunication, interdict, or suspension against or... more
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:547-48, no. 1775
year: 1257
text: March 9. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the house of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, praising their role in support of the Holy Land in the arenga, and responding to their requests by granting that archbishops, bishops, and other prelates of churches shall be content with the right that they and their predecessors are known to have had hitherto with respect to them and the churches they have and hold, saving a fee (procuratio) if any is owed to them. If they try to seek or extort more, the addressees can refuse on apostolic authority.
March 9. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the house of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, praising their role in support of the Holy Land in the arenga, and responding to their requests by granting that archbishops, bishops, and other prelates of churches... more
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:560, no. 1814
year: 1257
text: March 11. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Florentius] of Caesaria (Cesariensis), Bishop [Ioscelinus] of Acre (Acconensis), and the prior of the Friars Preacher (Dominicans) Acre (Acconenses), relating that the rector, council, and commune of the city Marseille (Massiliensis) had him informed that the late kings of Jerusalem (Ierosolimitani) Fulk (Fulco) and his wife Melisende (Melixenda), Baldwin (Balduinus), Amaury (Amalricus), Aimery (Aymericus), and Iohannes granted the commune freedom, liberty, and immunity throughout the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Ierosolimitanum) and certain possessions in the kingdom belonging to the kings, this was afterwards confirmed by the Apostolic See, and the commune enjoyed this freedom, liberty, and immunity for a long time and possessed those possessions in peace and quiet. Then the bailiffs of the kingdom, the noble man [Iohannes] the count of Jaffa (Ioppensis), lords John of Ibelin (Iohannes de Ibellino), [lord] of Beirut (Beriti), and Philippus de Monteforti de Thoron and Sidon (Sidoniensis), and several other barons and knights of the kingdom in Acre (Accon) and other places of the kingdom unduly extorted taxes and other exactions from the citizens of Marseille (Massilienses) against those grants and still extort them at their will, nor are they content with this, but they occupy their possessions. Thus the rector, counsel, and commune asked the Apostolic See to provide for them. The pope orders the addressees, if the aforesaid is true, to warn and induce the bailiffs, nobles, barons, and knights to cease this exaction and restore the possessions to the rector, counsel, and commune. Otherwise they shall summon the parties, hear the case, and decide it suitably, appeal removed, informing the pope of what they do, various obstacles notwithstanding. If not all three are able, then two can carry it out, etc.
March 11. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Florentius] of Caesaria (Cesariensis), Bishop [Ioscelinus] of Acre (Acconensis), and the prior of the Friars Preacher (Dominicans) Acre (Acconenses), relating that the rector, council, and commune of the city Marseille (Massiliensis) had... more
sources: Mayer, Marseilles Levantehandel, pp. 208-9, no. 23
year: 1257
text: March 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers and houses of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, relating that some time ago he heard that they and other religious having a privilege of exemption were constructing chapels and oratories without the consent and authority of the diocesans and, damnably holding in contempt the sentences that the ordinaries pronounced against persons and places subject to those ordinaries, the addressees rashly had the divine offices celebrated in those places and chapels and oratories that they constructed, without showing that this was allowed by a papal privilege or indulgence. With the advice of the cardinals the pope ordered established that they and other exempt religious shall not dare to construct oratories or chapels in places that are not exempt without permission from the diocesans nor celebrate or have celebrated the divine offices in places so constructed or in places that are not exempt when they are under interdict by the ordinaries. If they dare do this, the ordinaries of the places shall restrain them, and if their conservators pronounce sentences to the contrary, the pope orders them completely revoked, prohibiting the addressees from daring to do this without papal permission or special papal privilege. Since the addressees do have special papal privileges and indulgences for these things, however, they humbly asked the pope to provide for them. So the pope wants them to know that it was not his intention with this constitution to diminish these privileges and indulgences granted them by the Apostolic See, as can be gathered clearly from the constitution.
March 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers and houses of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, relating that some time ago he heard that they and other religious having a privilege of exemption were constructing chapels and oratories without the consent and... more
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:596-97, no. 1926
year: 1257
text: March 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem in the same way as in the previous letter (RRR 3193) to the Templars.
March 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem in the same way as in the previous letter (RRR 3193) to the Templars.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cartulaire général, 2:842-43, no. 2863
year: 1257
text: March 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, relating that, since he established some things because he wanted the concession or collation of priories to be done purely and cleanly according to God, he was asked on their behalf to explain his intention to them more fully. The pope explains that a while ago he learned that abbots with priors whom they install in their priories, before or after this installation, were accustomed to receiving a certain sum of money or a certain portion of the income of those priories, such that, with these priors paying this money or portion or perhaps an annual pension or a rent to the abbots, the customary hospitality or alms was thereby taken away in those priories and the number of those serving was reduced, and the business of those priories was less carefully dealt with, since it happened that less worthy priors were installed or ordained in them. The pope then describes the measures he took on the advice of the cardinals, without saying that it applies to the addressees or Jerusalem.
March 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the knighthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, relating that, since he established some things because he wanted the concession or collation of priories to be done purely and cleanly according to God, he was asked on their behalf... more
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:596, no. 1925
year: 1257
text: March 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem in the same way as in the previous letter (RRR 3195) to the Templars.
March 18. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem in the same way as in the previous letter (RRR 3195) to the Templars.
sources: Delaville Le Roulx, Cartulaire général, 2:843-44, no. 2864
year: 1257
text: March 23. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarchs [Jacobus Pantaléon] of Jerusalem and [Opizo Fieschi] of Antioch, informing them that Philippus de Pazano, papal subdeacon and canon of Nicosia (Nicosiensis), told him in his presence that Pope I[nnocentius IV] had sent letters to Archbishop [Egidius] of Tyre (Tyrensis) and Bishop [Opizo] of Tripoli (Tripolitanus) ordering them to provide Philippus, who had already been received in the church of Nicosia, with a vacant office or rank and prebend of that church or the next one that becomes so, even if such an office or rank had the care of souls attached. The same bishop, to whom the archbishop assigned his charge in the affair before the death of Pope Innocentius, received the letter and began to proceed. Despite the fact that Pope Alexander sent a letter restoring Philippus to the position from which he had been excluded by the constitution the pope published concerning expectant canons, Philippus still has not been able to obtain any comfort by this grace. Thus the pope orders the patriarchs to proceed to provide Philippus with an office or rank and prebend in that church according to Innocent’s letter.
March 23. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarchs [Jacobus Pantaléon] of Jerusalem and [Opizo Fieschi] of Antioch, informing them that Philippus de Pazano, papal subdeacon and canon of Nicosia (Nicosiensis), told him in his presence that Pope I[nnocentius IV] had sent letters to Archbishop... more
sources: Schabel et al. [eds.], Bullarium, 1:490-91, no. f-28
year: 1257
text: April 2. Lateran. Iohannes de Camezano, chaplain and auditor litterarum contradictarum of Pope [Alexander IV], writes to all who will see this letter, relating that for some time a lawsuit was litigated in his presence between master Raymundus de Agrimonte, the notary and agent of the rector, counsel, and commune of the city of Marseille (Massiliensis), acting for them in the Roman curia as plaintiff, on the one side, and master Albertus canon of Saint Peter Scheradius, a Florentinus, agent of the noble man Count [Iohannes] of Jaffa (Ioppensis), and Antonius de Narnia, the agent of Iohannes de Ibelino lord of Beirut (Beriti), acting for them as defendants, on the other. Eventually the agents chose their judges, with master Raymundus choosing Bishop [Florentius] of Acre (Acconensis) and master Albertus and Antonius choosing Archbishop [Ioscelinus] of Caesaria (Cesariensis), while the author chose as a middle and common judge for the parties the prior of the Friars Preacher (Dominicans) of Acre (Acconenses), to whom a papal letter was sent, which is inserted verbatim (see 11 March 1257, RRR 3192). The author testifies to the letter and strengthens it with his seal.
April 2. Lateran. Iohannes de Camezano, chaplain and auditor litterarum contradictarum of Pope [Alexander IV], writes to all who will see this letter, relating that for some time a lawsuit was litigated in his presence between master Raymundus de Agrimonte, the notary and agent of the rector,... more
sources: Mayer, Marseilles Levantehandel, pp. 207-9, no. 23
year: 1257
text: April 27. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the chancellor of the church of Toul (Tullensis), relating that Nicolaus the poor deacon called Bridous (Bridoux), former cleric of Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, explained before the pope that on the basis of a concession that the late Pope I[nnocentius IV] granted the patriarch, then bishop of Verdun (Virdunensis), which after that pope’s death the present pope confirmed, the bishop began the process of granting Nicolaus a benefice in the church of St Mary Magdalen of Verdun (Virdunensis), but this was left incomplete (presumably by the bishop’s promotion to patriarch). The pope orders the addressee, for the second time, to finish the procedure.
April 27. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the chancellor of the church of Toul (Tullensis), relating that Nicolaus the poor deacon called Bridous (Bridoux), former cleric of Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, explained before the pope that on the basis of a concession that the late... more
sources: Bourel de La Roncière, Les registres, 2:584-85, no. 1902