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August 13. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Dean [Boniface] of Sidon, residing in Acre, and the archdeacons of Nicosia and Acre, relating that Archbishop [Eustorge] of Nicosia excommunicated Canon Giovanni of Città di Castello, Jean de Brie the bailiff of the lord of Beirut (Balian of Ibelin) and the layman Bérard de La Frigoule, all residing in the Kingdom of Cyprus, after they legitimately appealed to the Apostolic See, to the prejudice and serious harm to the lord of Beirut (Balian of Ibelin). The pope orders the addressees to relax the sentence to a caution – once the excommunicates have sworn to obey the Church’s mandates should the sentence be found to have been justly promulgated – to hear anything that might remain of the case, and to decide the case canonically, various obstacles notwithstanding. If all three cannot carry this out, [then two or one can].