TEMPLAR SOURCES 1237

TS1237.02.15 - 15 February, 1237, Rome. - Gregory IX to Master and Brethren of the Templars: he has heard that in many of their houses their subjects serve only for grace. Since the servientes cannot have properties like priests, the priest brethren are allowed to offer them the opportunity for confessions and, if they do not have to go to the audiences of the bishops, also for penitence. (Reg.Vat. 18, 231v / Gregoire IX, Régistres, 2, 3520)

TS1237.02.19 - 19 February, 1237, Rome. - Gregory IX to the Count of Lydda: orders to support the Templars who are persecuted by Greeks and Armenians in Constantinople and other territories in Outremer. (RRR, 2290 / Gregoire IX, Régistres, 2, 3521, pp. 567-68)

*TS1237.10.28 - 28 October, 1237, Lateran. - Gregory IX to Master and Brethren of the Templars: in the case the archbishop of Sens and the papal penitentiar William do not succeed in collecting the required sum of 3000 m. silver - from the participants of the planned crusade of the count of Montfort and from others who are not able to go on crusade in the province of Sens -, they are ordered to add up the missing sum from their deposits for the Holy Land.
TS1237.12.03 - 3 December, 1237, Rome. - Gregory IX to Master and Brethren of the Templars: signifies them that they should resist any effort to demand a tenth from their wool, milk, eggs and lambs even under the pretext of pastoral care, because they are free from these tenth according to papal privileges. (Reg.Vat. 18, 338r / Gregoire IX, Régistres, 2, 3963)

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