1944

c.Apr. 27. Lateran. In a letter addressed to European rulers and others, Pope Honorius III reports on a meeting between himself, the emperor Frederick II, the patriarch of Jerusalem, King John of Jerusalem, the bishop of Bethlehem, the magistri of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and the Hospital of St Mary of the Germans, and the preceptor of the Knights Templar, at which the emperor committed himself to the journey to the Holy Land within 2 years and, at the instigation of the patriarch of Jerusalem and others from the East, promised to marry King John’s daughter.