autoritate apostolica firmiter
preceptum est, ut ad subsidium sancte terre omnes omnino in ecclesiis beneficiati, tam
sub
diti quam prelati uicesimam partem omnium ecclesiasticorum prouentuum, per
subsequens triennium integre conferrent
per manus eorum quos ad hoc opus
apostolica assigna\ret/1
prouidentia, exceptis quibusdam religiosis, ⁊ hiis qui perana2
liter in terram sanctam essent
profecturi. Ipse autem dominus papa ⁊ omnes cardinales ne in humer\o/s3 aliorum
honera inportabi
lia inponere uiderentur, decimam omnium prouentuum suorum
persoluerunt. Preter hec etiam dominus papa triginta ma
librarum cruce
signatis assignauit, ⁊ ex alia parte iiiama marcarum. Preceptum est etiam ut anno secundo
sequenti id est anno ab incarna
tione Domini moccoxviio omnes cruce sancta signati
ab uniuersis mundi partibus congregati, in kal’ Iunii, in regno
Si
cilicie adunarentur. Notandum etiam quod in eodem concilio presidente
domino papa Innocentio iiio pontificatus sui an
no
xviiio que Constantiniana dicitur fuerunt episcopi cccc ⁊
xii. Inter quos ex\s/titerunt de precipuis patriarchis
iio uidelicet Const\a/ntinopolitanus ⁊ Ierosolimitanus, Antiochenus autem graui languore detentus
non potuit uenire, sed misit pro se uicarium suum Antidorensem episcopum,
Alexandrinus autem
sub Saracenorum dominio constitutus fecit quod potuit mittens
pro se germanum suum diaconem.
Primates autem ⁊ metropolitani lxxi. Ceterum
abbates, ⁊ priores, vltra octingentos. Archiepiscoporum, e
piscoporum, abbatum,
priorum, capitulorum absentium non fuit certus numerus comprehensus. Legatorum
uero regis Sicilie in imperator\em/ Romanorum electi, imperatoris
Constantinopolis, regis Fran
cie, regis Anglie, regis Hungarie, regis
Ierosolimitani, regis Cipri, regis Ar\a/gonie,4 ⁊ aliorum
principum, ⁊ magnatum, ciuitatum, ⁊ aliorum uirorum tam ingens affuit multitudo ut
pre nimia multitudine magnatorum episcopus quidam suffocatus expirauit. Quod cum
ad aures
domini pape deuenisset iurauit per Sanctum Petrum quod mausoleum eius
lapide marmoreo signare
tur. ¶xvi kal’ Nouemb’ combusta est una de melioribus
grangiis de Cupro blado plena,
⁊ grangiarius conuersus in ea per negligentiam
unius candele male defixe. ¶xiiii kal’ No’
Alexander Dei gratia rex Scottorum cum
excercitu suo uniuerso castellum de Norham cepit obsidere,
quod cum per
quadraginta dies obsedisset nichil inde profectiens ab obsidione cessauit. ¶
xi k’
No’ cepit dominus A’ rex Scott’ humagium b\a/ronum5 de Northumbria apud
Feltuniam.
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Valoniis,
camerarius domini W’ regis Scott’ qui apud Melros delatus in capitulo
monachorum honorifice est tumulatus.
¶Eodem anno in capitulo generali Cistercii
dompnus Hugo, abbas de Melros, suo cessit officio, cui successit
dompnus Willelmus
abbas de Holmcultran xvi k’ Decemb’. ¶Profecti sunt de Scotia ad curiam
Romanam
generalis concilii gratia, dompnus W’ Maleuicinus episcopus Sancti Andree ⁊ dominus
Walterus episcopus Glas
guiensis,6 ⁊ dominus Bricius episcopus Moreuensis ⁊ dompnus Henricus
abbas de Kelceo, quorum duo scilicet episcopus Moreuensis
⁊ abbas Kelco\i/ensis, finito concilio in Scotiam sunt reuersi. Glasguensis
autem episcopus in anno iiio
Dominus uero episcopus Sancti Andree in principio iiii anni repatriauit. Ceteri
uero prelati personaliter Romam non adierunt,
¶sed legatos suos
miserunt.
with
apostolic authority, that everyone holding positions in churches in general,
subordinates as much as prelates—after certain religious had been excepted and those who
had been about to set out for the Holy Land in person—should contribute, for the aid of
the Holy Land, wholly a twentieth part of all their ecclesiastical income for the
following three years by way of the hands of those who apostolic consideration would
appoint for this work. And, in case they should appear to be placing an intolerable
burden on the shoulders of others, the lord pope himself and all the cardinals paid in
full a tenth of all their incomes. In addition to this, the lord pope assigned thirty
thousand pounds for those marked by the cross1 and 3,000
marks from another source. It was also commanded that in the second year following, that
is in the 1217th year from the Lord’s incarnation, all
marked with the holy crossed gathered from all parts of the world should be assembled in
the kingdom of Sicily at the beginning of June. It should also be noted that there were
412 bishops in this same council, over which the lord pope Innocent III presided in the
18th year of his pontificate, which is called Constantiana. Among them 2 distinguished patriarchs stood out,
namely the patriarchs of Constantinople and Jerusalem. (The patriarch of Antioch was not
able to come, held back by severe weariness, but he sent his vicar, the bishop of
Antidore, on his behalf; the patriarch of Alexandria, being held firmly under the
control of the Saracens, did what he could, sending his brother, a deacon, on his
behalf.) There were also 71 primates and metropolitans; the rest were more than 800
abbots and priors. The precise number of archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors and
chapters who were absent was not known. Such a huge multitude of delegates was
present—certainly of the king of Sicily (at that time elect as emperor of the Romans),
the emperor of Constantinople, the king of France, the king of England, the king of
Hungary, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Cyprus, the king of Aragon, and of other
rulers and magnates, of cities and other men—that a certain bishop died, suffocated
before such a very great multitude of great people. When this reached the ears of the
lord pope, he swore by St Peter that his tomb should be sealed with a marble stone. ¶On
17 October, by the carelessness of a badly fixed candle, one of the better granges of
Coupar, full of grain, was burnt, and in it the granger, a lay brother. ¶On 19 October,
Alexander, by the grace of God king of Scots, began to besiege the castle of Norham with
his whole army; but when he had besieged it for forty days, gaining nothing from it, he
abandoned the siege. ¶On 22 October the lord A[lexander], king of Scotland, took the
homage of the barons of Northumbria at Felton.
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¶On 5
November Philip of Valognes, chamberlain of the lord W[illiam], king of Scots, died. He
was carried to Melrose and buried with honour in the chapter of the monks. ¶In the same
year Dom Hugh, abbot of Melrose, resigned his office in the general chapter of Cîteaux;
Dom William, abbot of Holme Cultram, succeeded him on 16 November. ¶Dom W[illiam]
Malveisin, bishop of St Andrews, the lord Walter, bishop of Glasgow, the lord Brice,
bishop of Moray, and Dom Henry, abbot of Kelso, set out from Scotland to the Roman curia
by reason of the general council, of whom two—namely the bishop of Moray and the abbot
of Kelso—returned to Scotland at the end of the council. The bishop of Glasgow, on the
other hand, returned home in the 3rd year; the lord bishop
of St Andrews, indeed, in the beginning of the 4th year. The
other prelates did not go in person to Rome,
¶but sent their delegates.