Pope Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Segni, 1160 or 1161-1216)

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Los 2 | Pope Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Segni, 1160 or 1161-1216)
Pope Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Segni, 1160 or 1161-1216)
Manuscript bull addressed to the prior and monastery of the Lateran, Lateran Palace, 2 December 1210.
In Latin. 12 lines in a papal documentary script, on one membrane, 206 x 293mm, later endorsements on verso. Lead bulla suspended on silk threads.

Settling a dispute between the Lateran monastery and the priory of the Santi Quattro Coronati about their parish boundaries: Innocent has entrusted the cardinal priest of Ss. Ioannis et Pauli (Cencio Savelli, who would succeed Innocent as Pope Honorius III in 1216) to hear the case, and based on his findings, he decrees that the parish of the priory of the Santi Quattro Coronati will be delimited on one side by the church of St Nicholas 'de formis' and on the other by the arch of John the Baptist 'intra formam'; similarly the parochial rights of the Lateran monastery will not extend beyond those limits; this does not modify the parish boundaries decreed by Calixtus II.

One of the most powerful of all medieval popes, Innocent III is notable for his assertions of papal authority over the monarchs of Europe, for his promotion of the Fourth Crusade which concluded in the sack of Constantinople, and for his summoning of the Fourth Lateran Council, which instituted significant reforms. The Lateran Palace was still the main papal residence at this date, and the present bull settles a dispute between the monastery of the Lateran and the priory based in the ancient basilica of the Four Holy Martyrs. Neither the church of St Nicholas 'de formis' nor the arch of John the Baptist 'intra formam' referred to here can readily be identified: but by analogy with the suriving church of San Tommaso in formis, they may both have been built into the Claudian acqueduct ('forma claudia' in Latin), which runs along the side of Caelian hill. In contrast with the great bull of Innocent II in the previous lot, the present bull is an example of the more informal 'little bull', typically used to settle disputes of this kind.
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