The 'Templar of Tyre' by Paul F. Crawford

Author:Paul F. Crawford [Crawford, Paul F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, France
ISBN: 9781840146189
Google: 0xlnAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003-01-15T16:19:45+00:00

623 When Sir Amalric, Lord of Tyre, and the Templars and the Hospitallers and the other good men who were on the isle of Tortosa heard that the Tartars had turned back, they decided to retire to Cyprus. And they did go back, since [even] before their return the Saracens had gathered and had moved against the town of Tortosa, in order to do them harm. Our men resisted sturdily and brought down and slew some Saracens. But our men suffered great hardships.1

624 In [the year] 1301 of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Pope Boniface VIII sent his messengers to France to Sir Charles [of Valois], brother of King Philip IV of France (who was a handsome king); he requested that Sir Charles come to him, promising him much wealth and honour. Thereupon Sir Charles, who was married to the daughter2 of the [Latin] emperor of Constantinople, thought that the pope wished to give him much aid in recovering that empire which the Greeks held, so he brought six hundred armoured knights from France with him and came through Lombardy and Tuscany. When he arrived in Rome, the pope and the cardinals received him with great honour, and the pope gave him the lordship of Ancona and the Romagna.

625 This Sir Charles, brother of the king of France, did not stay long with the pope. He went into Tuscany, to the city of Florence, where he was received with great honours. They presented him with 600 horsemen. And the other cities of Tuscany gave him similar honours and favours. This Sir Charles departed from Tuscany and went into Naples, to the Principate, where King Charles II was, and made arrangements there to go over to Sicily with a number of French barons. He crossed over in the month of April.

Now I will leave off talking about them, because I want to tell you about a great controversy between the pope and the king of France.

626 It was in the year of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ 13033 that Pope Boniface VIII sent a forceful citation to the king of France, to the effect that he should either appear before him or send someone to represent him.1 I will tell you the cause of the dispute: the king of France had arrested a prelate … [lacuna2] … so that the king wished neither to come himself nor to send anyone else. So the pope revoked all the privileges and gifts which the Church of Rome had given to the king’s ancestors. Moreover, Pope Boniface issued a summons to all the prelates and abbots of France, ordering them to appear before him on a specified day.

627 At this point, the king of France issued a prohibition throughout all his lands, forbidding anyone to take either gold or silver out of his lands, unless it was in the form of money.

628 When the prelates heard about this prohibition, they perceived plainly that they would not be able to go

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