RRR: Correspondence/envoy
2366
year: 1239
initiator: Emperor Frederick II
recipient: R. comes Cornubiae
text: Apr. 20. Treviso. Writing to R. comes Cornubiae, the emperor Frederick maintains, among a series of bitter complaints about the actions of Pope Gregory IX against him in Italy and the Holy Land, that the pope accepted bribes to permit the illegitimate marriages of his enemies, that is to say Sipha, the daughter of the comestabulus regni Cypri, to Baliannus de Ybelino, condemned by the [arch]bishop of Nicosia, and the sister of Joannes de Caesaria to Jacobus de Amendolia.
Apr. 20. Treviso. Writing to R. comes Cornubiae, the emperor Frederick maintains, among a series of bitter complaints about the actions of Pope Gregory IX against him in Italy and the Holy Land, that the pope accepted bribes to permit the illegitimate marriages of his enemies, that is to say Sipha... more
sources: Matthew Paris, Chronica maiora 3:575-589, esp. p. 586 (RRH no. 1089)