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1061
year: 1180
initiator: Pope Alexander III
recipient: Prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Nov. 12 1170 - 1180. Tusculum. Pope Alexander III grants the request of the prior and brothers of the Holy Sepulchre that in church meetings and services the prior should have precedence immediately after the archbishops and bishops and over all other abbots and priors in the patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Nov. 12 1170 - 1180. Tusculum. Pope Alexander III grants the request of the prior and brothers of the Holy Sepulchre that in church meetings and services the prior should have precedence immediately after the archbishops and bishops and over all other abbots and priors in the patriarchate of... more
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 292-3, no. 118 (RRH no. 485)
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1176
year: 1186
initiator: Pope Urban III
recipient: Prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Mar. 13. Verona. Pope Urban III, who has been informed by the Genoese that some of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre have defaced the Golden Inscription [of Genoese privileges] which King Baldwin I placed around the altar [of the Holy Sepulchre], orders the prior and canons to restore it.
Mar. 13. Verona. Pope Urban III, who has been informed by the Genoese that some of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre have defaced the Golden Inscription [of Genoese privileges] which King Baldwin I placed around the altar [of the Holy Sepulchre], orders the prior and canons to restore it.
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 315, no. 138 (RRH no. 438)
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1177
year: 1186
initiator: Pope Urban III
recipient: Patriarch of Jerusalem
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Mar. 13. Verona. Pope Urban III orders the patriarch of Jerusalem to compel the canons of the Holy Sepulchre to restore the Golden Inscription [of Genoese privileges] placed by King Baldwin I.
Mar. 13. Verona. Pope Urban III orders the patriarch of Jerusalem to compel the canons of the Holy Sepulchre to restore the Golden Inscription [of Genoese privileges] placed by King Baldwin I.
sources: Hiestand, PK, p. 316, no. 139 (RRH no. 438)
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1188
year: 1186
initiator: Baldwin I and his successors
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: * c. Nov. 11 1100 - Sept. 13 1186. King Baldwin I and his successors establish the Letres dou Sepulcre, a collection of written laws and customs stored in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. [199]
* c. Nov. 11 1100 - Sept. 13 1186. King Baldwin I and his successors establish the Letres dou Sepulcre, a collection of written laws and customs stored in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. [199]
sources: Philip of Novara, pp. 119, 192; John of Ibelin, p. 629; Mayer, UKJ 3:1313-14, no. 755
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1289
year: 1190
initiator: A pope
recipient: A patriarch of Jerusalem [almost certainly Eraclius]
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Oct. 1180 - late autumn 1190. [231] Following a complaint by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, a pope rebukes a patriarch of Jerusalem [almost certainly Eraclius] for imposing his nephew [nepos] as deacon on the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre.
Oct. 1180 - late autumn 1190. [231] Following a complaint by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, a pope rebukes a patriarch of Jerusalem [almost certainly Eraclius] for imposing his nephew [nepos] as deacon on the chapter of the Holy Sepulchre.
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 336-7, no. 159
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1432
year: 1199
initiator: Pope Innocent III
recipient: Patriarch of Jerusalem and canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: Jan. 3. Lateran. Stressing the concern he has for the patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem, Pope Innocent III recalls a long dispute over the boundary between the churches of Tyre and Petra [Petertensis], the orders of Pope Lucius II to the then patriarch of Jerusalem when he was in France, the intervention of Pope Eugenius III and the threat to Antioch from the Sarraceni. He orders the patriarch of Jerusalem and canons of the Holy Sepulchre to answer within a year from the next Feast of All Saints the complaints of the patriarch and canons of Antioch that they ignored papal mandates on this issue.
Jan. 3. Lateran. Stressing the concern he has for the patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem, Pope Innocent III recalls a long dispute over the boundary between the churches of Tyre and Petra [Petertensis], the orders of Pope Lucius II to the then patriarch of Jerusalem when he was in France, the... more
sources: Innocent III, Die Register 1:755-6, no. 505
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1479
year: 1200
initiator: Pope Innocent III
recipient: Canons of the church of Bethlehem
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: (c. 1200). Pope Innocent III writes to the canons of the church of Bethlehem in relation to a disputed election to the bishopric, between R. subdiaconus (of Bethlehem) [268] and P. canonicus sepulcri domini. The case had already been heard in Rome, but has not been resolved. Meanwhile the pope condemns V. canonicus Bethlehemitanus, who had accepted a bribe of 500 Saracen besants for his vote in the election, for simony and deprives him of office.
(c. 1200). Pope Innocent III writes to the canons of the church of Bethlehem in relation to a disputed election to the bishopric, between R. subdiaconus (of Bethlehem) [268] and P. canonicus sepulcri domini. The case had already been heard in Rome, but has not been resolved. Meanwhile the pope... more
sources: Decretals 2.12.4 and 2.18.2, ‘Liber Extra’, cols. 277, 305-6
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1512
year: 1203
initiator: Aimery of Cyprus
recipient: Canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: *c. Apr. King Aimery of Jerusalem agrees to the postulation by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre of Cardinal Soffred of St Praxedis as the new patriarch of Jerusalem.
*c. Apr. King Aimery of Jerusalem agrees to the postulation by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre of Cardinal Soffred of St Praxedis as the new patriarch of Jerusalem.
sources: Innocent III, Die Register 6:217, no. 129; Mayer, UKJ 2:1010, no. 622
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1533
year: 1204
initiator: Aimery of Cyprus
recipient: Canons of the Holy Sepulchre
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: *Summer or autumn. King Aimery of Jerusalem agrees to the postulation by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre of Bishop Albert of Vercelli as the new patriarch of Jerusalem.
*Summer or autumn. King Aimery of Jerusalem agrees to the postulation by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre of Bishop Albert of Vercelli as the new patriarch of Jerusalem.
sources: Innocent III, Die Register 7:394, no. 222; Mayer, UKJ 2:1011-12, no. 623
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1543
year: 1205
initiator: Prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre
recipient: Pope Innocent III
institution: Holy Sepulchre
text: c. Feb. 17. Rome. St Peter’s. The prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre have informed Pope Innocent III in person that when Cardinal S. of St Praxedis could not be induced to accept his election as patriarch of Jerusalem, they chose Bishop Albert of Vercelli as patriarch, insisting on their sole right as electors following the nomination of two candidates. King Aimery and the bishops have assented. The pope encourages Albert, who is in Lombardy, to agree to his election, in spite of the difficulties evident in the process.
c. Feb. 17. Rome. St Peter’s. The prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre have informed Pope Innocent III in person that when Cardinal S. of St Praxedis could not be induced to accept his election as patriarch of Jerusalem, they chose Bishop Albert of Vercelli as patriarch, insisting on their sole... more
sources: Innocent III, Die Register 7:393-5, no. 222