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c. Dec.15-17. Lateran. Pope Innocent III writes to King Leon I of Cilician Armenia. He has heard an appeal for assistance from the magister of the Knights Templar [militia Templi] and emissaries of the patriarch and prince of Antioch, the count of Tripoli and the commune of Antioch. They had described how after the Sarraceni had abandoned the castle [castrum] called Gaston, which the Knights Templar had legitimately possessed, Armenian forces had entered and held Gaston. Leon had promised the patriarch, prince and commune to restore it to the Knights Templars but had delayed doing so. He had proposed to the Holy See that it be held by his uncle Milo. Innocent orders Leon to restore the castle to the Knights Templar. It will be up to the king to present his case for judgement by the pope himself or his legates, who are sailing on the next passage.