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June 10. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), the archbishop of Tyre and the bishop of Sidon, relating that the bishop of Acre (Raoul de Tournai) informed him via his petition that a predecessor of his, the late bishop Theobald of Acre, at the instigation of the Pisans then living in Acre, turned the chapel of San Pietro the Pisan of Acre into a parish church and established that all Pisans living in the city were parishioners of that church, causing serious harm to the church of Acre. Since they adhered to the former Emperor Frederick [II] against the Church, the Pisans deserve to be deprived of all ecclesiastical privilege, grace and honour, so the pope declares null and void the above and any agreements or pacts between the Pisans and the bishop of Acre, notwithstanding any confirmations, indulgence or privilege obtained from the Apostolic See over these matters, and he orders the addressees to restore the previous status of the chapel, to announce the Pisans deprived of the above, and to compel them with ecclesiastical censure to receive the ecclesiastical sacraments from the church of Acre and to obey the bishop as their ordinary, after a warning, appeal put aside. If not all of the addressees can carry this out, [then two or one can].