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January 23. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the knighthood of the Temple, relating that the late Pope I[nnocent IV] once granted that they could receive up to 10,000 silver marks outside the Kingdom of Germany from money spent in redemption of crusading vows in support of the Holy Land; from money gained via usury, robbery, or other evil ways that the faithful order to be restored in their last will or are ready to do so while they are living, even if they are healthy, as long as those to whom the money must be restored cannot be found at all; and from testaments of the faithful with bequests to the Holy Land without expressing specific places or persons, assigning them certain executors for this. Afterwards, however, before they received this sum from the above, as is asserted, the present pope granted that Patriarch J[acobus] of Jerusalem could receive the money from the redemptions and bequests in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Wishing to avoid any trouble between the Templars and the patriarch on account of this, the pope responds to the patriarch's prayers by granting that the Templars can receive the above in the Kingdom of Germany and everywhere else except the Kingdom of Jerusalem as granted by the pope's predecessor until they reach the abovementioned sum.