Bullarium Hellenicum. Pope Honorius III's Letters to Frankish Greece and Constantinople

612 Pages·2015·2.848 MB·English

by  Pope Honorius III, W. O. Duba, C. Schabel (Eds.)

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Editorial Coordinator
Evelien Chayes
Editorial Board
Lorenzo Calvelli
Christopher Celenza
Evelien Chayes
Gilles Grivaud
Martin Hinterberger
Michalis Olympios
Christopher Schabel

Bullarium Hellenicum
Pope Honorius III’s Letters
to Frankish Greece
and Constantinople
(1216-1227)
Edited by
W O. D
illiam uba
C D. s
hristOpher Chabel
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7
POPE HONORIUS III (1216-1227) AND ROMANIA 9
The Latin Empire and the Kingdom of Thessaloniki 15
The Latin Patriarchate 30
The Prelates and Dioceses of Romania 41
The Agreements of the 1220s I: Church Property 54
The Agreements of the 1220s II: The Lower Greek Secular Clergy
in Greek Lands under Frankish Rule 59
The Regular Clergy 72
Conclusion 84
INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION 89
A Note on Reading Papal Letters 95
Correspondence Table 101
TABULA LITTERARUM 103
BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH ABBREVIATIONS
USED IN THE EDITION 115
MAPS 129
THE LETTERS 133
INDEX MANUSCRIPTORUM 579
INDEX NOMINUM ET LOCORUM 581
INDEX RERUM 601
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The process that led to the publication of this volume began in
the fall of 2002, in the development of a University of Cyprus
seminar on medieval Latin palaeography taught by Chris Schabel.
Schabel used the letters of Pope Honorius III to Frankish Greece
for the section of the course on diplomatics, some of which letters
were transcribed by two graduate students and an undergraduate,
Christina Kaoulla. The importance of the material became readi-
ly apparent the following semester, during a seminar on Frankish
Greece 1204-1261. A University of Cyprus research grant made
the project possible, bringing Bill Duba to Cyprus for the 2004-
2005 academic year to work on the present volume. By the end
of the year, we had a full transcription and rough summaries of
almost all the letters. The publication has been delayed, howev-
er, due to our other obligations and the difficulty in checking the
edition against the later copies and against previous publications
of various letters, mostly scattered in nineteenth-century and old-
er works that could not be accessed in Cyprus. Work continued
sporadically, until the habilitation and PhD projects of Pierre-Vin-
cent Claverie, Nikolaos Chrissis, and Ludivine Voisin, who em-
ployed our transcriptions, provided incentive to finish the project.
We returned to the Bullarium Hellenicum in January 2013, when
the Internet had progressed to the point where we could access
most of the older editions.
A number of institutions and individuals have assisted in bringing
this volume to completion. As mentioned, the book is the product
of an internal University of Cyprus research program. The Archivio
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Segreto Vaticano – especially the prefect, Bishop Sergio Pagano,
and his secretary, Marco Grilli – has been very helpful as always.
During our visits to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Par-
is, the Biblioteca Vallicelliana and the Archivio Storico del Later-
ano in Rome, the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, and other libraries
we always enjoyed the pleasant hospitality of the staffs, even when
told we could not see the materials. Nikolaos Bakirtzis, Pierre-
Vincent Claverie (a new Eubel), Christoph Egger, Charalambos
Gasparis, Bob Jordan, Christina Kaoulla, Rosemary Morris, Peter
Toth, Demetrios Tsougarakis, and Ludivine Voisin offered scholar-
ly advice and kindly provided us with materials. We sent a penul-
timate draft to Nikolaos Chrissis, Pierre-Vincent Claverie, Gilles
Grivaud, Martin Hinterberger, David Jacoby, Michalis Olympi-
os, and Nickiphoros Tsougarakis, all of whom we thank for their
corrections and excellent suggestions.
W. O. D. and C. D. S., Rome, April 2014
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CHRIS SCHABEL
POPE HONORIUS III (1216-1227)
AND ROMANIA
Two basic facts pertinent to the present volume need to be stat-
ed. First, the letters of Pope Honorius III and succeeding popes
have never been published in full. Second, although like any oth-
er source they require caution on the part of the interpreter, these
letters are indispensable for the information they provide for are-
as formerly under Latin rule where few local archives survive for
the Middle Ages, above all the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its vassal
states, the Kingdom of Armenia in Cilicia, the Kingdom of Cy-
prus, and the Latin Empire of Constantinople and its vassal states
that were not under Venetian or Genoese control.1
Regarding the first fact, for the period when the papal regis-
ters survive more or less intact, starting in 1198, only the corre-
spondence of the first pope, Innocent III (1198-1216), has been
printed in full,2 despite claims to the contrary.3 For the remaining
1 For a survey of surviving archival sources for the medieval Eastern Med-
iterranean, see Alexander D. Beihammer, “Eastern Mediterranean Diplomatics:
The Present State of Research,” in idem, Maria G. Parani, and Chris D. Scha-
bel, eds., Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500: Aspects of Cross-Cul-
tural Communication, Leiden: Brill, 2008 (The Medieval Mediterreanean, 74), pp.
1-24, at pp. 4-18.
2 In volumes 214-216 of Migne’s Patrologia Latina, and now in Die Register In-
nocenz’ III., ed. Othmar Hageneder et al., Graz and Cologne: Hermann Böhlaus
Nachfolger, 1964-1968, and Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaf-
ten, 1977-, which is nearing completion.
3 E.g., in Robert Lee Wolff, “Politics in the Latin Patriarchate of Constan-
tinople, 1204-1261,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 8 (1954), pp. 225-318; reprinted in
idem, Studies in the Latin Empire of Constantinople, London: Variorum, 1976 (Var-
iorum Collected Studies Series, 55), no. IX, at p. 233: “As students of the period
are well aware, we possess printed editions of the full texts of the letters of all the
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popes of the next century, all letters in the registers have been at
least summarized, but the proportion of letters that have been ed-
ited in full varies from pope to pope. For the period from 1316 to
1378, when the popes resided in Avignon, even the effort at sum-
marization is far from complete, and after 1378 the papal registers
are largely terra incognita.4 One of the early popes whose letters are
largely available in mere summary form is Innocent III’s succes-
sor, Pope Honorius III. The full text of the 76 letters of Honori-
us dealing with Cyprus has been published recently in Bullarium
Cyprium, while the Bullarium Terrae Sanctae, Honorius’ 150 letters
concerning the crusader mainland, including Cilician Armenia, is
now available in Pierre-Vincent Claverie’s Honorius III et l’Orient.5
The present volume contains the complete text of this pope’s 2776
surviving letters involving Frankish Greece and Constantinople,
the first of what is hoped to be a series of volumes of papal letters
for the history of what was known as Romania.
The second fact is demonstrated in the prominence of citations
of papal letters in the footnotes of the major secondary works on
these areas.7 With growing international interest and the increas-
thirteenth-century Popes except for Honorius III.” Having edited the papal let-
ters to Cyprus down to 1314, I can attest that this is false.
4 For a survey linked to the present context, see Chris Schabel, “The Bulla-
rium Cyprium: The Ongoing Mission...,” in Sabine Rogge et al., eds., Cyprus in
Medieval Times – A Place of Cultural Encounter, Münster: Waxmann, forthcoming
(Schriften des Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Zypern-Studien).
5 Bullarium Cyprium, vol. I: Papal Letters Involving Cyprus 1196-1261, ed. Chris
Schabel, with an Historical Introduction by Jean Richard, Nicosia: Cyprus Re-
search Centre, 2010 (Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, 64.1), pp. 179-
286; Pierre-Vincent Claverie, Honorius III et l’Orient (1216-1227). Étude et publica-
tion de sources inédites des Archives vaticanes (ASV), Leiden: Brill, 2013 (The Medieval
Mediterranean, 97), pp. 279-478. A few letters are common to both editions.
6 This figure is approximate: more letters may eventually turn up, letters that
are only tangentially related to Romania have not been included, while one let-
ter is actually addressed to Honorius (no. 148).
7 Since 1900 one can cite, e.g., Walter Norden, Das Papsttum und Byzanz. Die
Trennung der beiden Mächte und das Problem ihrer Wiedervereinigung bis zum Unter-
gange des byzantinischen Reichs (1453), Berlin: B. Behr, 1903, esp. pp. 297-305; Ren-
nell Rodd, The Princes of Achaia and the Chronicles of Morea. A Study of Greece in the
Middle Ages, 2 vols, London: Edward Arnold, 1907; William Miller, The Latins in
the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566), London: John Murray, 1908;
Jean Longnon, L’Empire latin de Constantinople et la principauté de Morée, Paris: Pay-
ot, 1949; Antoine Bon, La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et ar-
chéologiques sur la principauté d’Achaïe (1205-1430), Paris: Boccard, 1969 (Biblio-
thèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 213); Antonio Carile, Per una
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