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.Moreover, youought to heed this so much more willingly given that, out ofgreater devotion, you swore in your coronation that youwould support the churches in their rights and defend them intheir legal claims.Issued in Rome at Saint Peter's.In almost the same mode to the noble man, the doge of Ven-ice, up to ``we.advise:''583 strictly forbidding you throughthis Apostolic letter in the power of God not to at-tempt to proceed to the division of ecclesiastical pos-sessions nor to permit it to be tried by others, insofaras you have the ability to do so.Moreover, because wecannot and ought not to tolerate this patiently, wehave sent quite strict orders to the bishops and abbotsresiding with the army at Constantinople that, bymeans of ecclesiastical censure, with the obstructionof any sort of litigation or appeal set aside, they are tocompel you and others who might aim at dividing upecclesiastical possessions to cease from a presump-tion of this sort, and should it have been attempted,they should, by means of the same sanction, see thatthe situation is restored to its pristine state.Issued in Rome at Saint Peter's on the ®fth day before the Idesof February.There is a letter on this subject to these bishops and abbots.In the same mode to the noblemen, the marquis ofMontferrat and all the counts of the Christian army.582The Church of Constantinople.583What follows is the text unique to the letter to Dandolo. 152 :Reg.7:223Ca.17 February 1205Upon hearing of the army's second capture of Constantinople, thetwo cardinal legates left Acre and sailed to the capital of the newLatin empire of Constantinople.As we saw in Reg.7:202, uponarrival, Cardinal Peter lifted the ban of excommunication that theVenetians had lain under since November 1202.Around mid Feb-ruary 1205 the pope wrote Cardinal Peter regarding the legates'abandonment of the Holy Land.Although disturbed by their pre-cipitous and perhaps unwarranted journey, Innocent only gentlyrebuked his two cardinals and even cast about for reasons thatmight excuse their action.What is more, although he ordered oneor the other of them to continue to guide the province of Jerusa-lem, he also widened their legatine commission to includeConstantinople, until a specially appointed Apostolic legate arrivedthere.In this era of good feeling and radical changes that promisedever so much, Innocent was willing to excuse much in order to se-cure the God-given gift of Constantinople.To Peter, cardinal priest of the church of San Marcello, legateof the Apostolic See:We have learned from the report of many and your messengertold us that you and our beloved son Soffredo, cardinal priestof the church of Saint Prassede and legate of the ApostolicSee, have arrived in Constantinople from the province of Je-rusalem.We make a distinction regarding whether the two ofyou traveled to the army of the crusaders, over whom you re-ceived legatine duty, for the sake of needed aid for the HolyLand584 or whether you traveled over to the aforementionedregions for the sake of setting in order the churches of theGreeks.In the ®rst case, we do not disapprove of your585 jour-ney, but in the second case (for we speak without meaning todisturb your peace of mind), not only we but also our brothers584An unregistered and undated report to the pope, which the two legates com-posed sometime shortly before their departure from Acre, states that they were prepar-ing to go to Constantinople ``to guide and aid the pilgrims who labor there in serviceto Christendom'': Gesta Innocentii III., Gress-Wright, 302; PL 214:clix.585From here up to ``Your Discretion'', ``you'' is consistently plural. 153judge this to be an ill-advised action, inasmuch as you receivedno authority from us on these matters.On the other hand,perhaps this moment of unexpected change might free bothof you from blame, especially since our most beloved son inChrist, Baldwin, the illustrious emperor of Constantinople,petitioned us through a letter and messengers that we deign tosend legates to those regions from our court, and following theadvice of our brothers, we have arranged to do that at an op-portune time.586In order, moreover, that we might out of special favor pro-vide for your honor,587 lest you be excessively rebuked, and sothat we might take care of the province of Constantinoplethrough your solicitude, lest it lack a caregiver any longer, wegrant the both of you, so that you might in the meanwhilefunction in our place, authority to do those things that seemto you to promote the glory of the Divine Name, the honor ofthe Apostolic See, and the well-being of both the clergy andthe people.You are to take special care that you not leave theprovince of Jerusalem, to which you were particularly assign-ed, totally forsaken, as it were, especially since with your ar-rival it has had a patriarch who exercised pastoral care over it,but with your departure a patriarch is missing,588 whereforeno one remains in that province who might exercise a pastoraloffice over it.For this reason, instructing Your Discretion589through this Apostolic letter, we command that, along withthe aforementioned legate,590 you diligently see to it that, untilthere is guidance through another means for that land,591 oneof the two of you offer helpful aid to that same land, and the586See Reg.8:56 (55).587Honori: This seems to have here the technical meaning of ``office'' or ``mission.''588Although the letter is addressed to Cardinal Peter and the ``you'' is plural, thisespecially refers to Cardinal Soffredo.Patriarch Aymar the Monk (r.1194-1202) haddied in the summer or fall of 1202.In early 1203, King Aimeric and the canons of thechurch of the Holy Sepulcher elected Soffredo to replace him as patriarch of Jerusalem.Although Soffredo refused the honor, he had been functioning as the head of theChurch of Jerusalem in the absence of a duly elected and consecrated patriarch.InReg.7:222 of 17 February 1205, Innocent exhorted Bishop Albert of Vercelli (r.1185-1205) to accept election to the patriarchate: Register Innocenz' III., 7:393-395.Albert ac-cepted and served as patriarch until his death in 1214.589Singular.590Soffredo.591Jerusalem. 154 :two of you should not make haste to return592 before you havereceived a special Apostolic order regarding this.Dated as in the others.Reg.8:56 (55)15 May 1205Three months later, on the Ides of May, Innocent informed Em-peror Baldwin that the promised Apostolic legate, Cardinal Bene-dict of Santa Susanna, was on his way to Constantinople to ``rootout and destroy, build up and plant'' whatever he might deem nec-essary in the Church of Constantinople, the Roman Church's ``spe-cial and ®rst daughter.'' Still caught up in the glow of this unex-pected miracle, which had transferred the Greek empire ``from thedisobedient and the superstitious to the sons of obedience and thepious,'' Innocent optimistically looked forward to bringing theGreek Church into conformity with Latin belief and rite [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.Moreover, youought to heed this so much more willingly given that, out ofgreater devotion, you swore in your coronation that youwould support the churches in their rights and defend them intheir legal claims.Issued in Rome at Saint Peter's.In almost the same mode to the noble man, the doge of Ven-ice, up to ``we.advise:''583 strictly forbidding you throughthis Apostolic letter in the power of God not to at-tempt to proceed to the division of ecclesiastical pos-sessions nor to permit it to be tried by others, insofaras you have the ability to do so.Moreover, because wecannot and ought not to tolerate this patiently, wehave sent quite strict orders to the bishops and abbotsresiding with the army at Constantinople that, bymeans of ecclesiastical censure, with the obstructionof any sort of litigation or appeal set aside, they are tocompel you and others who might aim at dividing upecclesiastical possessions to cease from a presump-tion of this sort, and should it have been attempted,they should, by means of the same sanction, see thatthe situation is restored to its pristine state.Issued in Rome at Saint Peter's on the ®fth day before the Idesof February.There is a letter on this subject to these bishops and abbots.In the same mode to the noblemen, the marquis ofMontferrat and all the counts of the Christian army.582The Church of Constantinople.583What follows is the text unique to the letter to Dandolo. 152 :Reg.7:223Ca.17 February 1205Upon hearing of the army's second capture of Constantinople, thetwo cardinal legates left Acre and sailed to the capital of the newLatin empire of Constantinople.As we saw in Reg.7:202, uponarrival, Cardinal Peter lifted the ban of excommunication that theVenetians had lain under since November 1202.Around mid Feb-ruary 1205 the pope wrote Cardinal Peter regarding the legates'abandonment of the Holy Land.Although disturbed by their pre-cipitous and perhaps unwarranted journey, Innocent only gentlyrebuked his two cardinals and even cast about for reasons thatmight excuse their action.What is more, although he ordered oneor the other of them to continue to guide the province of Jerusa-lem, he also widened their legatine commission to includeConstantinople, until a specially appointed Apostolic legate arrivedthere.In this era of good feeling and radical changes that promisedever so much, Innocent was willing to excuse much in order to se-cure the God-given gift of Constantinople.To Peter, cardinal priest of the church of San Marcello, legateof the Apostolic See:We have learned from the report of many and your messengertold us that you and our beloved son Soffredo, cardinal priestof the church of Saint Prassede and legate of the ApostolicSee, have arrived in Constantinople from the province of Je-rusalem.We make a distinction regarding whether the two ofyou traveled to the army of the crusaders, over whom you re-ceived legatine duty, for the sake of needed aid for the HolyLand584 or whether you traveled over to the aforementionedregions for the sake of setting in order the churches of theGreeks.In the ®rst case, we do not disapprove of your585 jour-ney, but in the second case (for we speak without meaning todisturb your peace of mind), not only we but also our brothers584An unregistered and undated report to the pope, which the two legates com-posed sometime shortly before their departure from Acre, states that they were prepar-ing to go to Constantinople ``to guide and aid the pilgrims who labor there in serviceto Christendom'': Gesta Innocentii III., Gress-Wright, 302; PL 214:clix.585From here up to ``Your Discretion'', ``you'' is consistently plural. 153judge this to be an ill-advised action, inasmuch as you receivedno authority from us on these matters.On the other hand,perhaps this moment of unexpected change might free bothof you from blame, especially since our most beloved son inChrist, Baldwin, the illustrious emperor of Constantinople,petitioned us through a letter and messengers that we deign tosend legates to those regions from our court, and following theadvice of our brothers, we have arranged to do that at an op-portune time.586In order, moreover, that we might out of special favor pro-vide for your honor,587 lest you be excessively rebuked, and sothat we might take care of the province of Constantinoplethrough your solicitude, lest it lack a caregiver any longer, wegrant the both of you, so that you might in the meanwhilefunction in our place, authority to do those things that seemto you to promote the glory of the Divine Name, the honor ofthe Apostolic See, and the well-being of both the clergy andthe people.You are to take special care that you not leave theprovince of Jerusalem, to which you were particularly assign-ed, totally forsaken, as it were, especially since with your ar-rival it has had a patriarch who exercised pastoral care over it,but with your departure a patriarch is missing,588 whereforeno one remains in that province who might exercise a pastoraloffice over it.For this reason, instructing Your Discretion589through this Apostolic letter, we command that, along withthe aforementioned legate,590 you diligently see to it that, untilthere is guidance through another means for that land,591 oneof the two of you offer helpful aid to that same land, and the586See Reg.8:56 (55).587Honori: This seems to have here the technical meaning of ``office'' or ``mission.''588Although the letter is addressed to Cardinal Peter and the ``you'' is plural, thisespecially refers to Cardinal Soffredo.Patriarch Aymar the Monk (r.1194-1202) haddied in the summer or fall of 1202.In early 1203, King Aimeric and the canons of thechurch of the Holy Sepulcher elected Soffredo to replace him as patriarch of Jerusalem.Although Soffredo refused the honor, he had been functioning as the head of theChurch of Jerusalem in the absence of a duly elected and consecrated patriarch.InReg.7:222 of 17 February 1205, Innocent exhorted Bishop Albert of Vercelli (r.1185-1205) to accept election to the patriarchate: Register Innocenz' III., 7:393-395.Albert ac-cepted and served as patriarch until his death in 1214.589Singular.590Soffredo.591Jerusalem. 154 :two of you should not make haste to return592 before you havereceived a special Apostolic order regarding this.Dated as in the others.Reg.8:56 (55)15 May 1205Three months later, on the Ides of May, Innocent informed Em-peror Baldwin that the promised Apostolic legate, Cardinal Bene-dict of Santa Susanna, was on his way to Constantinople to ``rootout and destroy, build up and plant'' whatever he might deem nec-essary in the Church of Constantinople, the Roman Church's ``spe-cial and ®rst daughter.'' Still caught up in the glow of this unex-pected miracle, which had transferred the Greek empire ``from thedisobedient and the superstitious to the sons of obedience and thepious,'' Innocent optimistically looked forward to bringing theGreek Church into conformity with Latin belief and rite [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]