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The Deedsof POPE INNOCENT III The Deeds of POPE INNOCENT III by an Anonymous Author Translated with an Introduction and Notes by James M.Powell The Catholic University of America Press Washington,D.C. Copyright©2004 TheCatholicUniversityofAmericaPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements ofAmericanNationalStandardsforInformationScience—Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibrarymaterials,ANSIZ39.48-1984. Firstpaperbackedition2007 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData GestaInnocentiiIII.English. mmThedeedsofPopeInnocentIII/byananonymousauthor; translatedwithanintroductionandnotesbyJamesM.Powell. —1sted. p.mcm. mmIncludesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. mmISBN0-8132-1362-2(cl.:alk.paper) mmISBN978-0-8132-1488-7(pbk.:alk.paper) mm1.InnocentIII,Pope,1160or61-1216.m2.Papacy—History.m I.Powell,JamesM.mII.Title. BX1236.G46132004 282’.092—dc21 2003004337 Ad memoriam bonorum temporum ThomasBrown MichaelMarkowski MarySkinner RichardSpence WithaspecialthankstoRichardforhisworkonthe GestaInnocentiiIII CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi TheDeedsofPopeInnocentIII byanAnonymousAuthor [Family,Education,Election] 3 [RomeandthePapalStates] 7 [TheKingdomofSicily] 17 [SpiritualConcerns] 55 [TheCrusadeandChurchUnity] 77 [PeterofAragoninRome] 228 [ThePapalStates] 231 [PapalConcernswiththeChurches] 235 [Rome,Again!] 241 [WorksofPiety:TheGiftList] 257 AppendixI:MartinofTropau’sLifeofInnocentIII 269 AppendixII:SignificantEmendationstotheEdition 271 oftheGestaInnocentiiIIIbyDavidGress-Wright AppendixIII:TerracinabyBrendaBolton 273 Bibliography 275 Index 281 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project began when I asked Richard Spence to translate the GestaasitappearsinthePatrologiaLatina.Intypicalfashionhemade aheroiceffortbeforeturningtheresultsovertomewithhisblessing. ThoughIhavenotusedhistranslation,Ihaveoccasionallyconsulted hisnotesonthetext.Iwishtopubliclythankhimhere.Hisnamealso appearsdeservedlyonthededicationpage. Two colleagues and friends, both experts on Innocent III and his period, have invested considerable effort in correcting my mistakes. BrendaBoltonknowsInnocentandtheGestainwaysthatnooneelse does; John Moore has worked extensively on the registers of Inno- cent’slettersaswellashissermons,andispreparingabiography.Both have read the manuscript in different stages. John has worked tire- lesslytocorrectmymistakes.Itisnofaultofhisifsomepersist.Alfred Andrea has contributed substantially to our understanding of the FourthCrusade.Hekindlyallowedmetoseehistranslationofletters dealingwiththattopic,whichhavenowbeenpublished.IfIhavenot alwaysfollowedhislead,itisdueinparttothefactthatIhadalready translatedmostoftheletters.ButIwasgratefulfortheopportunityto improve my work. I also wish to thank Keith Kendall for his help in checkingseveralreferences. ChristophEgger,whoseworkontheregistersismerelyonefacetof hisimportantresearchonInnocentandlate-twelfth-centurytheology, has been a valuable sounding board. From the time of his arrival in ix x Acknowledgments Syracuse,IhavebenefittedfromKennethPennington’sknowledgeof canonlawandhisinterestintheGesta.Iowesubstantialdebtstooth- erstoonumeroustomention,butIwishtoexpressmydeepestthanks to the late Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., to Giles Constable, Edward Peters, and,asever,toJamesJohn.Theyareallinthenotes,butevenmore inmythoughts. My debt to libraries is obvious but I must thank the staffs of the SyracuseUniversityLibrary,theVaticanLibrary,theMullenLibraryof The Catholic University of America, and the Cornell University Li- brary. In my career, I have had so much help from librarians that I considerthemasghostlyauthors.Finally,inthiscomputerage,Imust also acknowledge the help of my son, Michael Powell. He is, indeed, anassistanteditor,whoseexpertisewithcomputinghasmademytask somucheasier. I NTRODUCT ION Composedintheyearsfromabout1204to1209,theGestaInnocen- tiiIII,orDeedsofInnocentIII,belongstoagenreofbiographythathas its origins in the classical period, in such works as Plutarch’s Lives, Suetonius’sLivesoftheTwelveCaesars,andtheScriptoreshistoriaeAugus- tae.1Butthemoreimmediatemodelsweretheseriesofpapalbiogra- phiescollectedintheLiberPontificalis,towhichwereaddedthosewrit- ten by Cardinal Boso in the second half of the twelfth century.2 The workaswepossessit,however,isnotacompletepapalbiography.Not only is it limited to approximately the first eleven years of Innocent III’s eighteen-and-a-half-year reign, but it shows signs that strongly suggestthattheauthorrecognizedhisinabilitytocompletethework 1. See Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, “La storiografia pontificia del secolo XIII: Prospettive di ricerca,” Römische Historische Mitteilungen 18 (1976): 45–54; Brenda Bolton,“TooImportanttoNeglect:TheGestaInnocentiiPPIII,”inChurchandChronicle intheMiddleAges:EssaysPresentedtoJohnTaylor,ed.G.A.LoudandI.N.Wood(Lon- don:HambledonPress,1991),87–99,esp.87–88.AlsoseeGiuliaBarone,“I‘Gesta InnocentiiIII’:PoliticaeculturaaRomaall’iniziodelduecento,”inStudisulMedioevo perGirolamoArnaldi,ed.GiuliaBarone,LidiaCapo,andStefanoGasparri,Ilibride Viella 24 (Rome: Viella, 2001), 1–23, which contains a useful bibliography on 22–23. 2.DavidGress-Wright[DavidWright],The‘GestaInnocentiiIII’:Text,Introduction andCommentary(Ph.D.diss.,BrynMawrCollege,1981),34*–35*.Hereaftercitedas GW.Forbibliography,seeGW,129*–36*,andEdwardM.Peters,“LotariodeiSegni Becomes Pope Innocent III: The Man and the Pope,” in Pope Innocent III and His World,ed.JohnC.Moore(Aldershot:Ashgate,1999),3–24,aswellastheotherarti- clesinthisvolume.SeealsoInnocenzoIII:Urbsetorbis,ed.AndreaSommerlechner,2 vols.(Rome:SocietàRomanadiStoriaPatria,2003). xi
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