RRR: Correspondence/envoy
400
year: 1140
initiator: Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux
recipient: Patriarch Ralph of Antioch
institution: Templars
text: 1135 – Dec. 2 1140. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux writes to Patriarch Ralph of Antioch [on his election?] encouraging him to humility and asking him to show favour to the Knights Templar.
1135 – Dec. 2 1140. Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux writes to Patriarch Ralph of Antioch [on his election?] encouraging him to humility and asking him to show favour to the Knights Templar.
sources: Bernard of Clairvaux, ‘Epistolae’ 8:361-3, no. 392
RRR: Council/ruling decisions/legislation
401
year: 1140
initiator: Church council, presided over by Alberic of Ostia
recipient: Patriarch Ralph of Antioch
text: Nov. 30 – Dec. 2. Antioch. In the cathedral of St Peter. A Church council, presided over by Alberic of Ostia, the papal legate, deposes Patriarch Ralph of Antioch in his absence and degrades Ralph’s supporter Serlo Appamiensis archiepiscopus. Present are: Willelmus patriarcha [of Jerusalem]; Gaudentius Cesariensis archiepiscopus; Fulcherius Tyrensis archiepiscopus; Stephanus Tarsensis archiepiscopus; Serlo Appamiensis archiepiscopus; Geraldus Coriciensis archiepiscopus; Franco Ierapolitanus archiepiscopus; Anselmus Bethleemita episcopus; Bernardus Sydoniensis episcopus; Balduinus Beritensis episcopus; Geraldus Laodicensis episcopus; Hugo Gabulensis episcopus.
Nov. 30 – Dec. 2. Antioch. In the cathedral of St Peter. A Church council, presided over by Alberic of Ostia, the papal legate, deposes Patriarch Ralph of Antioch in his absence and degrades Ralph’s supporter Serlo Appamiensis archiepiscopus. Present are: Willelmus patriarcha [of Jerusalem];... more
sources: William of Tyre, pp. 696-9) (RRH no. 203)