TEMPLAR SOURCES 1255

*TS1255.07.12 - 12 July, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV grants those helping the Templars with money etc. - since they are weakened and deeply in debts by their participation at Louis' IX unlucky Egyptian crusade - the same indulgence as pope Innocent granted those travelling personally to Palestine. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, 140r-141r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 103 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 260, pp. 60-61)

TS1255.07.21 - 21 July, 1255, --. - Thiébault, King of Navarre, Count Palatinate of Champagne and Brie, and Isabella, his wife, confirm a compromise agreed between Queen Margaret, Thiébault's mother, and the Templars according to which the Order retains all his properties and rights in Campagne and Brie, cf. TS1255.07.29, below. (NLM, olim no. 311, Ms. 17th c. olim bag 2. / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, pp. 22-23)

*TS1255.07.23 - 23 July, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV renews the privilege of Alexander III that allowed the Templars to admit priests to serve in their convents and that regulated their status. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, 158v-159r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 110 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 262, pp. 61-62)

TS1255.07.26 - 26 July, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV de occulte verberantibus. [...] Significarunt nobis dilecti filii fratres militie Templi. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, 123v / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 95 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 263, p. 62 / cf. Strehlke, Tabulae no. 414)

TS1255.07.29 - 29 July, 1255, --. - Margaret, queen of Navarre, and the Templars agree on a compromise concerning the Order's properties and rights in Campagne and Brie. This is also confirmed by Thiébault, King of Navarre, Count Palatinate of Champagne and Brie, and Isabella, his wife, cf. TS1255.07.21, above. (NLM, olim no. 311, Ms. 17th c., olim bag 6 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, p. 23)

*TS1255.07.31 - 31 July, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV to the Templars in France: forbids the alienation of properties of the Templars by members of other orders, especially Cistercians. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, fol. 139v-140r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 103 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 264, pp. 62-63)

TS1255.08.01 - 1 August, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV mandates quod si littere contra privilegia nostra [sic] nullum nobis inde generetur detrimentum. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, fol. 139r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 103 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 265, p. 63)

TS1255.08.01.a - 1 August, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV grants bulla, ne fratres Templi teneantur discipline judicis alicuius, si littere fuerint obtente contra eorum privilegia. (NLM, Arch. 1127 [olim 1119], calendar, register, Bullaria pontificia [B. sextum], fol. 10v / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 55 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 266, p. 63)

*TS1255.09.06 - 6 September, 1255, Anagni. - Alexander IV to the Templars: forbids that priests exclude the women of the people and confratres of the Templars from giving thanks in their churches after childbirth, also that they exclude the women and their children from ecclesiastical burial. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, fol. 157v-158r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 110 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 276, pp. 63-64)

TS1255.11.26 - 26 November, 1255, Lateran. - Alexander IV grants bulla, ut capientes servitores fratrum Templi seu verberantes eos et dissipantes bona eorum excommunicentur, donec ablata restituerint et satisfactionem prebuerint. (NLM, Arch. 1127 [olim 1119], calendar, register, Bullaria pontificia [B. sextum], fol. 10r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 54 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 278, p. 64)

TS1255.12.07 - 7 December, 1255, Rome, Lateran. - Pope Alexander IV to the Master and brethren of the Templars: confirms all liberties, immunities, and exemtions from secular demands granted to them by Roman Pontiffs, kings etc. Inc. Cum a nobis.. (Regesta Pontificum, II,2, 16106, p. 1324)

TS1255.12.07.a - 7 December, 1255, Rome, Lateran. - Pope Alexander IV to all archbishops, bishops, abbots and other ecclesiastical prelates: admonishes and orders them to excommunicate any of their clerics or lay people who captures any of the brethren of the Templars, takes their horses, treats him inhonestly or violently. Inc. Paci et quieti.. (Regesta Pontificum, II,2, 16107, p. 1324)

TS1255.12.08 - 8 December, 1255, Rome, Lateran. - Pope Alexander IV to all archbishops, bishops, abbots, and other ecclesiastical prelates: orders them to explain the letters from the Holy See in favour of the Templars faithfully to their subjects and to incite them to give rich alms and benefices to the Order. Inc. Si discrimina quae.. (Regesta Pontificum, II,2, 16108, p. 1324)

TS1255.12.09 - 9 December, 1255, Lateran. - Alexander IV grants bulla, ne Cistercienses et alii emant aut approprient terras, possessiones, redditus dominium Templi pertinentes. (NLM, Arch. 1127 [olim 1119], calendar, register, Bullaria pontificia [B. sextum], fol. 10v / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 55 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 279, p. 64 / cf. TS1255.07.31)

TS1255.12.10 - 10 December, 1255, Lateran. - Alexander IV grants bulla, ut liceat fratribus Templi ecclesias suas, cum vacaverint, in suis manibus retinere per 50 dies. (NLM, Arch. 1127 [olim 1119], calendar, register, Bullaria pontificia [B. sextum], fol. 10r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 55 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 280, p. 64)

*TS1255.12.12 - 12 December, 1255, Lateran. - Declaratio domini pape [Alexandri IV] quod sub illo generali verbo "et aliis ecclesiarum prelatis" debent intellegi omnes presbiteri et capellani. (NLM, Arch. 1128 [olim 1121], copy in register, Bullarium rubeum, fol. 62v-63r / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 73 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 281, p. 64)

TS1255.12.17 - 17 December, 1255, Lateran. - Alexander IV grants bulla, ut archiepiscopi et episcopi ad requisitionem judicum et conservatorum fratrum Templi scribant regi Anglie pro excommunicatis excommunicandis. (NLM, Arch. 1127 [olim 1119], calendar, register, Bullaria pontificia [B. sextum], fol. 10v / Catalogue of the Records, VII, 54 / Prutz, Malteser Urkunden, no. 282, p. 64)

TS1255.12.18 - 18 December, 1255, Rome, Lateran. - Pope Alexander IV to all archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other ecclesiastical prelates: orders them to keep their ecclesiastical subjects (parochiani) by threat of anathema from alienating any properties, incomes etc. of the Templars or to hold back their incomes or disturb them in any way. Inc. Cum uni versis pene.. (Regesta Pontificum, II,2, 16141, pp. 1326-27)

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