RRR: Correspondence/envoy
400
year: 1140
initiator: Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux
recipient: Patriarch Ralph of Antioch
institution: Templars
text: 1135 – Dec. 2 1140. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux writes to Patriarch Ralph of Antioch [on his election?] encouraging him to humility and asking him to show favour to the Knights Templar.
1135 – Dec. 2 1140. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux writes to Patriarch Ralph of Antioch [on his election?] encouraging him to humility and asking him to show favour to the Knights Templar.
sources: Bernard of Clairvaux, ‘Epistolae’ 8:361-3, no. 392
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
402
year: 1140
initiator: Alberic of Ostia, the papal legate
text: Nov. 30 – Dec. 2. Alberic of Ostia, the papal legate, reports on the disputes, involving Patriarch Ralph of Antioch and Patriarch William of Jerusalem, over status and the competence of the judicial process that led to Patriarch Ralph’s refusal to attend the Council of Antioch.
Nov. 30 – Dec. 2. Alberic of Ostia, the papal legate, reports on the disputes, involving Patriarch Ralph of Antioch and Patriarch William of Jerusalem, over status and the competence of the judicial process that led to Patriarch Ralph’s refusal to attend the Council of Antioch.
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 160-4, no. 46
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
427
year: 1143
initiator: King Fulk
recipient: Canons of Saint Laud of Angers in France
text: *Sept. 14 1131– Nov. 10 1143. King Fulk sends the canons of St Laud of Angers in France an ivory tau, given him at his coronation by envoys of the Egyptian usurper Kutayfat.
*Sept. 14 1131– Nov. 10 1143. King Fulk sends the canons of St Laud of Angers in France an ivory tau, given him at his coronation by envoys of the Egyptian usurper Kutayfat.
sources: Delisle, ‘Notice sur un manuscrit de Saint-Laud’, p. 540, no. 3 (RRH no. 139a)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
440
year: 1144
initiator: Pope Celestine II
recipient: Petrus prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Jan. 12. Lateran. Writing to P[etrus] prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Pope Celestine II acknowledges the visit to Rome of canons L. and G. with letters for his predecessor Pope Innocent II and accedes to their request to have a hospice in Rome where they can lodge when having dealings with the Holy See.
Jan. 12. Lateran. Writing to P[etrus] prior and the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Pope Celestine II acknowledges the visit to Rome of canons L. and G. with letters for his predecessor Pope Innocent II and accedes to their request to have a hospice in Rome where they can lodge when having dealings... more
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 176-7, no. 54 (RRH no. 222)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
448
year: 1144
initiator: Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux
recipient: Queen Melisende
text: Nov. 10 1143 – 1144. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux comforts Queen Melisende after the death of her husband King Fulk.
Nov. 10 1143 – 1144. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux comforts Queen Melisende after the death of her husband King Fulk.
sources: Bernard of Clairvaux, ‘Epistolae’ 8:297-8, no. 354 (RRH no. 216)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
449
year: 1144
initiator: Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux
recipient: Queen Melisende
text: Nov. 10 1143 – 1144. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux recommends Premonstratensian monks to Queen Melisende.
Nov. 10 1143 – 1144. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux recommends Premonstratensian monks to Queen Melisende.
sources: Bernard of Clairvaux, ‘Epistolae’ 8:299, no. 355 (RRH no. 216)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
459
year: 1145
initiator: Patriarch William of Jerusalem
institution: Saint John in Sebaste
text: Dec. 25 1144 – Sept. 27 1145. Patriarch William of Jerusalem informs the Church at large of the discovery at Sebastea [Samaria] of relics of St John the Baptist, the prophet Elisha and Abdias. He grants under seal an indulgence of 40 days to all visiting Sebastea on the Feasts of the Discovery of the Relics, the Nativity and the Decollation of St John the Baptist and to all contributing to the restoration of the church there.
Dec. 25 1144 – Sept. 27 1145. Patriarch William of Jerusalem informs the Church at large of the discovery at Sebastea [Samaria] of relics of St John the Baptist, the prophet Elisha and Abdias. He grants under seal an indulgence of 40 days to all visiting Sebastea on the Feasts of the Discovery of... more
sources: Le Roux de Lincy et Bruel, ‘Notice historique et critique’, pp. 492-3, no. 1 (RRH no. 235)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
465
year: 1146
initiator: Abbot of Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
recipient: Pope Eugenius III
institution: Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat
additional institution: Church of Nazareth
text: Early in the year. The abbot of St Mary of theValley of Jehoshaphat appeals to Pope Eugenius III, who has been sent copies of the relevant deeds, for redress in a dispute between his abbey and the church of Nazareth. He records how Bernhardus primus Nazarenus episcopus gave the abbey, for the needs of the poor, the church of Ligio with parochial rights and tithes, together with the tithes of the casale of Thanys. In the time of Bernardus and in that of successor Wilelmus, who was afterwards raised to be archbishop, the abbey enjoyed its rights, but the new archbishop [Robertus] challenged them. The abbey’s rights were confirmed by Pope Innocent II, in return for an annual payment to the papacy of 1 uncia of gold. When the archbishop’s agents resorted to force, the abbey appealed to Patriarch William, who reproved the archbishop, but as soon as the death of Pope Innocent II was known the persecution of the monks began again. The archbishop placed a chaplain [capellanus] in the church [of Ligio] to say Mass for the soul of Willehelmus de Buris and to exercise parochial rights, forbidding the monks make use of them. His agents disrupted the Mass being said by a monk. The monks appealed several times to Patriarch William and when they raised the issue at a synod held at Nazareth [in celebri conventu apud Nazaret] they were told that their papal privilege had lapsed with Pope Innocent’s death. William, moreover, refused to hear their case unless they would give him a marcha of gold and half the tithes. In the end the monks were forced into an agreement, recorded in a [lost charter] witnessed by Patriarch William and others, in which they promised the archbishop of Nazareth an annual rent of a marcha of gold, a rotula of wax and incense, payable on the Feast of the Annunciation, and granted him the right to enjoy procuration with his household on one day a year. The monks recognize that in this they have infringed papal prerogative. (Hiestand, PK, pp. 183-7, no. 60) (RRH no. 239).
Early in the year. The abbot of St Mary of theValley of Jehoshaphat appeals to Pope Eugenius III, who has been sent copies of the relevant deeds, for redress in a dispute between his abbey and the church of Nazareth. He records how Bernhardus primus Nazarenus episcopus gave the abbey, for the needs... more
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 183-7, no. 60 (RRH no. 239)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
477
year: 1146
initiator: Anselmus Bethleem episcopus
recipient: Leo, deacon of the church of Reims
text: 1136 - 1146. Bethlehem. A[nselmus] Bethleem episcopus writes to Leo, deacon of the church of Reims. He unites the church of Bethlehem in a community of prayer with that of Reims.
1136 - 1146. Bethlehem. A[nselmus] Bethleem episcopus writes to Leo, deacon of the church of Reims. He unites the church of Bethlehem in a community of prayer with that of Reims.
sources: Riant, ‘Six lettres’, p. 385, no. 1 (RRH no. 168)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
480
year: 1147
initiator: Franks
recipient: Mu’in ad-Din Unur of Damascus
text: *Spring. Letters from the Franks to Mu’in ad-Din Unur of Damascus to divert him from the siege of Salkhad.
*Spring. Letters from the Franks to Mu’in ad-Din Unur of Damascus to divert him from the siege of Salkhad.
sources: Ibn al-Qalanisi, pp. 276-7