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THE PAPACY AND THE COMMUTATION OF CRUSADING VOWS FROM ONE AREA OF CONFLICT TO ANOTHER (1095–C. 1300)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2018

A. J. FOREY
A. J. FOREY*
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Kirtlington, Oxford
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Abstract

The practice of diverting crusaders from one area of conflict to another can be traced back at least as far as the beginning of the twelfth century. Commuting of vows in this way was early recognized to be a papal prerogative and usually involved crusaders who had originally vowed to go to the Holy Land. In the twelfth century commutations occurred on only a few occasions, when steps were taken to divert crusaders to the Iberian Peninsula when it was under serious threat. Commutations became much more frequent in the first half of the thirteenth century and were used to provide manpower against Christians as well as infidels. At that time popes often took the initiative: Gregory IX was anxious to provide help for the Latin Empire of Constantinople and Innocent IV and his successors needed assistance against the Hohenstaufen. The papacy did not, however, coerce crusaders, and many refused to commute their vows. Criticism of commuting was voiced, although the redeeming of vows for money attracted greater opprobrium. Commuting became less common in the closing decades of the thirteenth century, but the reasons for this decline are not explained in the sources and can only be conjectured.

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commutationcrusadesHoly Landpapacyvows
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Traditio , Volume 73 , 2018 , pp. 43 - 82
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67 Documentación pontificia de Inocencio IV, 1:197 doc. 174; Bullarium equestris ordinis S. Iacobi de Spatha, ed. Antonius Franciscus Aguado de Córdoba, Alfonsus Antonius Alemán y Rosales, and Josephus López Agurleta (Madrid, 1719), 141. In the same decade the canonist William of Rennes argued that powerful nobles, because of their value on crusades, should not be released from crusading vows if they entered the religious life: Brundage, Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader (n. 4 above), 94. Yet he was probably thinking of a contemplative form of life. In 1221 Honorius III allowed the Teutonic Order to accept crusaders as brothers, but this did not necessarily mean that they would fight in a different area: MAB, 3:654 doc. 195; Strehlke, Ernst, Tabulae ordinis Theutonici (Berlin, 1869), 290Google Scholar doc. 320.

68 La documentación pontificia de Alejandro IV (1254–1261), ed. Ildefonso Rodríguez de Lama (Rome, 1976), 124–25 doc. 117; Les registres d'Alexandre IV, ed. C. Bourel de la Roncière et al., 3 vols. (Paris, 1895–1959), 1:259 doc. 862; Les registres de Clément IV, ed. Edouard Jordan (Paris, 1893–1945), 4–6 doc. 15; Documentos de Clemente IV (1265–1268) referentes a España, ed. Santiago Domínguez Sánchez (León, 1996), 112–15 doc. 5. The archbishop of Seville was still using these letters in 1276 and 1280: Linehan, Peter, “‘Quedam de quibus dubitans’: On Preaching the Crusade in Alfonso X's Castile,” Historia, Instituciones, Documentos 27 (2000): 129–54Google Scholar, at 140, 150.

69 The use of the term peregrini also, of course, raises the question of how it was interpreted by the recipients of papal letters.

70 Preussisches Urkundenbuch, 1.1:66–67 doc. 87.

71 Codex diplomaticus Prussicus (n. 37 above), 1:1–2 doc. 1; Vetera Monumenta Poloniae et Lithuaniae (n. 37 above), 1:2 doc. 4; MAB, 2.2:272–74 doc. 220; Preussisches Urkundenbuch (n. 37 above), 1.1:11–12 doc. 16.

72 Preussisches Urkundenbuch, 1.1:66–67 doc. 87.

73 VMH, 1:203–4 doc. 379.

74 Bullarium S. Iacobi, 178.

75 Chronica Slavorum, 5.30, ed. Pertz (n. 56 above), 214–15. Barbara Bombi, “Celestine III and the Conversion of the Heathen on the Baltic Frontier,” in Pope Celestine III (n. 22 above), 155, links this comment with delays of Henry VI's planned expedition, but Arnold of Lübeck does not give any precise indication of timing.

76 Diplomatarium Norvegicum (n. 44 above), 1:21–22 doc. 27.

77 Monumenta Henricina (n. 50 above), 1:45–49, 52–54 docs. 25–26, 28; ESXIII, 1:27–29, 32–33 docs. 35–36, 42; Mansilla, Documentación de Honorio III (n. 41 above), 106–7 doc. 134.

78 Maier, Preaching the Crusades (n. 1 above), 80–82. On the diverting of crusaders to the South Italian kingdom, see below.

79 Preussiches Urkundenbuch, 1.1:34–36 docs. 46–48.

80 Summa Raymundi de Peniafort (n. 4 above), 1.8.3–4 (repr. 1957) 57–58; Hostiensis, Summa aurea (n. 4 above), 3, De voto, 12 (1597 ed.), 216; Brundage, Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader (n. 4 above), 104.

81 Historia diplomatica Friderici secundi (n. 63 above), 5:1214–15; Jackson, Peter, “The Crusade against the Mongols (1241),” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991): 1–18CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 9–10.

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84 PL 214:786–88; Register Innocenz’ III. (n. 36 above), 2:421–23 doc. 217; Gesta Innocentii PP. III, in PL 214:lv; Elizabeth Kennan, “Innocent III and the First Political Crusade,” Traditio 27 (1971): 231–49, at 247. It has been argued that some crusaders fought against Markward under Walter of Brienne in southern Italy instead of going to the East: Rist, Rebecca, Papacy and Crusading in Europe, 1198–1245 (London, 2009), 177Google Scholar, 201; see also Van Cleve, T. C., Markward of Anweiler and the Sicilian Regency (Princeton, 1937), 175Google Scholar. Villehardouin, La conquête de Constantinople, chaps. 33–34, ed. Edmond Faral, 2 vols. (Paris, 1961), 1:34, certainly states that Walter was accompanied in Apulia by a large number of crusaders but claims that they asserted that they were ready to join the expedition to the East. They did not in fact do so but Kennan, “Innocent III,” 244, points out that there is no record that the pope commuted the Holy Land vow of Walter of Brienne, and there is no evidence of any formal commutation of his followers’ vows.

85 PL 215:699–72; Register Innocenz’ III., 8:230–33 doc. 127; translated in Brundage, James A., The Crusades: A Documentary Survey (Milwaukee, 1962), 208–9Google Scholar; Andrea, Alfred J., Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade (Leiden, 2008), 162–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Crusade and Christendom (n. 34 above), 63–65; see also Roscher, Helmut, Papst Innocenz III. und die Kreuzzüge (Göttingen, 1969), 126Google Scholar. The text of the 1204 agreement is given in Tafel, G. L. F. and Thomas, G. M., Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig, 3 vols. (Vienna, 1856–57), 1:444–52Google Scholar. Three years later Innocent condemned the Venetians for using Holy Land crusaders not only in Greece but also in Crete: Register Innocenz’ III., 12:6–7 doc. 2.

86 MAB, 2.2:479–80 doc. 7; VMH, 1:8 doc. 14; Bullarium Hellenicum: Pope Honorius III's Letters to Frankish Greece and Constantinople (1216–1227), ed. William O. Duba and Christopher D. Schabel (Turnhout, 2015), 175–76 doc. 31.

87 MAB, 2.2:528–30 doc. 52; RHGF, 19:638; Bullarium Hellenicum, 191–94 doc. 42. The penance had been imposed for attacking England despite a papal prohibition.

88 Norden, Walter, Das Papsttum und Byzanz: Die Trennung der beiden Mächte und das Problem ihrer Wiedervereinigung bis zum Untergang des byzantinischen Reichs (1453) (Berlin, 1903), 749–50Google Scholar docs. 4–5; Bullarium Hellenicum, 236–37 docs. 73–74.

89 MAB, 3:299–301 doc. 19; RHGF, 19:690–91.

90 MAB, 4:349–50, 351 docs. 129, 132; Bullarium Hellenicum, 396–97, 399–400 docs. 175, 178; Claverie, Pierre-Vincent, Honorius III et l'Orient (1216–1227) (Leiden, 2013), 391–92CrossRefGoogle Scholar doc. 78. In February 1224 Honorius issued a similar letter about those assisting the marquis of Montferrat, but on this occasion he allowed a delay of only one year: Bullarium Hellenicum, 484–87 doc. 223.

91 MAB, 4:724–25 doc. 35; Bullarium Hellenicum, 526–28, 532–34 docs. 244, 248.

92 VMH, 1:97, 102–3 docs. 171, 177; RG, 1:418 doc. 657.

93 RG, 2:218 doc. 2874. At the same time Gregory appealed to Bela IV of Hungary and his brother Coloman to give aid and counsel in support of the Latin Empire, but he did not mention taking the cross; and although Coloman had in the preceding year vowed to campaign against heretics, and although it has been claimed that an earlier crusading vow taken by Bela was commuted, the pope made no reference to commutation: RG, 2:217–18 docs. 2872–73; VMH, 1:130, 140 docs. 222, 249; Codex Diplomaticus Regni Croatiae, Dalmatiae et Slavoniae, ed. T. Smiciklas et al., 18 vols. (Zagreb, 1874–1990), 3:417–19 doc. 362; Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus ac civilis, ed. György Fejer, 7 vols. (Buda, 1829–41), 4:30–31; Maier, Preaching the Crusade (n. 1 above), 37; Rist, Papacy and Crusading in Europe, 132; Morton, Nicholas, “In subsidium: the Declining Contribution of Germany and Eastern Europe to the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1221–91,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London 33 (2011): 38–66Google Scholar, at 52.

94 RG, 2:233 doc. 2911.

95 VMH, 1:167, 170–71 docs. 299, 308; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum (n. 3 above), 1:102–3; Bullarium Franciscanum (n. 35 above), 1:247–49; RG, 2:1108 doc. 4482.

96 RG, 2:875–76 doc. 4057; VMH, 1:160–61 doc. 284.

97 VMH, 1:175 doc. 320; RG, 3:215 doc. 5123; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum, 1:110.

98 RG, 1:218, 232–33 docs. 2879, 2909–10; 2:512–13 doc. 3395; Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:179–81.

99 Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:218; RG, 2:638–40 docs. 3633, 3638.

100 Spence, Richard, “Gregory IX's Attempted Expeditions to the Latin Empire of Constantinople: The Crusade for the Union of the Latin and Greek Churches,” Journal of Medieval History 5 (1979): 163–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 166. Lower, Michael, The Barons’ Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences (Philadelphia, 2005), 93CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 137, 179–80, argues that Gregory sought to persuade Theobald but not Richard, and Abulafia, David, “Charles of Anjou Re-assessed,” Journal of Medieval History 26 (2000): 93–114CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 111, accepts Lower's opinion, which was first expressed in his thesis. Weiler, Björn, “Gregory IX, Frederick II and the Liberation of the Holy Land, 1230–9,” in The Holy Land, Holy Lands and Christian History, ed. Swanson, R. N., Studies in Church History 36 (Woodbridge, 2000), 199Google Scholar, states that Gregory encouraged not only Richard of Cornwall but also Simon of Montfort and William Longsword to join the proposed campaign to the Latin Empire instead of going to the Holy Land.

101 RG, 2:218 doc. 2877; Documentos de Gregorio IX (n. 65 above), 429–30 doc. 521; Thesaurus novus anecdotorum (n. 34 above), 1:998–99; Chrissis, Nikolaos G., “A Diversion That Never Was: Thibaut IV of Champagne, Richard of Cornwall and Pope Gregory IX's Crusading Plans for Constantinople, 1235–1239,” Crusades 9 (2010): 128–39Google Scholar; Chrissis, Crusading in Frankish Greece (n. 66 above), 86, 100, 106–7. A papal letter to Theobald and others in March 1239 instructed them to prepare for the general passage to the Holy Land: RG, 2:1229–30 doc. 4741.

102 RG, 2:897, 1173 docs. 4094–96, 4608; Chrissis, “Diversion That Never Was,” 140–42; Chrissis, Crusading in Frankish Greece, 121.

103 RG, 2:807–8 docs. 3944, 3946.

104 ESXIII, 1:619 doc. 720.

105 Codex diplomaticus et epistolarius regni Bohemiae, ed. Gustavus Friedrich et al. (Prague, 1907– ), 3.2:308–9 doc. 229.

106 ESXIII, 1:706–7 doc. 801; VMH, 1:178–79 doc. 327. Abulafia, David, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor (London, 1988), 384Google Scholar, suggests that Hungarian crusaders were being asked to provide money rather than to fight against Frederick, but the pope's letter offered indulgences both to those who commuted their vows and to those who redeemed them.

107 ESXIII, 2:172–73, 296–97 docs. 234, 408; RI, 1:305, 459 docs. 2054, 3054.

108 RI, 1:509 doc. 3384.

109 ESXIII, 2:326 doc. 453.

110 ESXIII, 2:329 doc. 459.

111 ESXIII, 2:332 doc. 465; RI, 1:617 doc. 4060.

112 ESXIII, 3:373–74 doc. 534; RI, 1:572 doc. 3779.

113 ESXIII, 2:409 doc. 579; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum (n. 3 above), 1:182.

114 ESXIII, 3:15–16 doc. 20; RI, 2:161 doc. 4927; Bullarium Franciscanum (n. 35 above), 1:561; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum, 1:188. For translations of most of the papal letters about commutations in border districts in the later 1240s, see Jackson, Seventh Crusade (n. 64 above), 29, 55–58, 198.

115 ESXIII, 2:287–88 doc. 394; Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:465–66; RI, 1:456 doc. 3040; translated in Jackson, Seventh Crusade, 54–55. Salimbene claims that Innocent asked Louis to delay his crusade, but that his plea was rejected: Cronica, ed. Giuseppe Scalia, 2 vols., CCM 125–25A (Turnhout, 1998–99), 1:319–20.

116 Gianbatista Verci, Storia degli Ecelini, 3 vols. (Bassano, 1779), 3:341 doc. 200; ESXIII, 3:93–95 doc. 113.

117 Foedera, 1.1:304; ESXIII, 3:405–11 doc. 446; Registres d'Alexandre IV (n. 68 above), 3:89–93 doc. 3036.

118 On Henry III's negotiations with the king of Castile, see Forey, A. J., “The Crusading Vows of Henry III,” Durham University Journal 65 (1973): 229–47Google Scholar, at 237–45; Goodman, Anthony, “Alfonso X and the English Crown,” in Alfonso X el Sabio, vida, obra y época, ed. de Miguel Rodríguez, Juan Carlos, Fernández, Angela Muñoz, and Graiño, Cristina Segura (Madrid, 1989), 43–46Google Scholar; Rodríguez García, “Henry III, Alfonso X” (n. 66 above), 104–5.

119 Foedera, 1.1:316.

120 Foedera, 1.1:319–20. The pope also gave permission for the Holy Land vows of English crusaders to be commuted to Sicily: Foedera, 1.1:322. On the negotiations about Sicily between the papacy and Henry, see Forey, “Crusading Vows of Henry III,” 238–45; Lloyd, Simon, English Society and the Crusade, 1216–1307 (Oxford, 1988), 222–25Google Scholar; Tyerman, Christopher, England and the Crusades, 1095–1588 (Chicago, 1988), 118–20Google Scholar; Weiler, Björn, “Henry III and the Sicilian Business: A Reinterpretation,” Historical Research 74 (2001): 127–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

121 Foedera, 1.1:320–21.

122 ESXIII, 3:591–92 doc. 597; Registres d'Urbain IV (n. 3 above), 1:398 doc. 813.

123 ESXIII, 3:628 doc. 637; Registres de Clément IV (n. 68 above), 318–19 doc. 817. In June 1265 Clement agreed to a request that Barrallus, lord of Baux, should commute his Holy Land vow, provided that Alphonse of Poitiers agreed: Registres de Clément IV, 488–89 doc. 1677. According to the Chronica minor auctore minorita Erphordiensi: Continuatio I, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS 24 (Hanover, 1879), 204, the pope ordered preaching for the Holy Land in Germany in 1266, but used those who took the cross to fight in support of Charles of Anjou.

124 Housley, N. J., “Politics and Heresy in Italy: Anti-Heretical Crusades, Orders and Confraternities, 1200–1500,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 33 (1982): 193–208CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 194, writes that in 1212 Innocent III “threatened the people of Milan … with the very crusaders whom he had sent against the heretics of Languedoc,” when they failed to act against heretics in the city. This might be read to imply commutation of vows, but the pope was merely threatening to call a crusade against them: PL 216:710–15.

125 Layettes du Trésor des chartes, ed. Alexandre Teulet et al., 5 vols. (Paris, 1863–1909), 1:317–19 doc. 843; see also a less precise statement in Register Innocenz’ III. (n. 36 above), 10:254–57 doc. 149; Rist, Papacy and Crusading in Europe (n. 84 above), 65–66, 69.

126 PL 216:817–22.

127 PL 216:904–5; Rist, Papacy and Crusading in Europe, 70.

128 MAB, 2.2:573–76 docs. 95–96; RHGF, 19:645–47.

129 MAB, 3:10–12 doc. 71; RHGF, 19:664–65; Viola Skiba, Honorius III. (1216–1227): Seelsorger und Pragmatiker (Stuttgart, 2016), 461–63.

130 MAB, 3:299–301 doc. 19: RHGF, 19:690–91; Rist, Papacy and Crusading in Europe, 97–98. Earlier in 1219 Honorius had allowed those who were under an obligation to undertake a peregrinatio to commute and assist against the Albigensians, but he excluded those who were pledged to go to Jerusalem: MAB, 3:104–5 doc. 107. Rist, Papacy and Crusading in Europe, 102–3, takes peregrinatio here to signify crusade.

131 MAB, 3:79 doc. 77.

132 MAB, 3:833–35, 838–40 docs. 413, 419. On Honorius's stance, see Rist, Crusading in Europe, 97–98; Skiba, Honorius III., 406–7, 461–63.

133 ESXIII, 3:87–89 doc. 110; RI, 2:244–45 doc. 5345; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum (n. 3 above), 1:192–93. Purcell, Papal Crusading Policy (n. 1 above), 68, 106–7, argued that the pope did not consider that diverted service against the Mongols in 1247 and against heretics in 1251 constituted the fulfillment of a crusading vow and that only those who were killed fighting against these would receive a full indulgence. She reaches this conclusion after pointing out that the papal directives do not mention commutation, and she also refers to Gregory X's ruling about those who did not go on to the Holy Land from Tunis in 1270, besides drawing attention to a discussion by Thomas Aquinas about crusaders who died before fulfilling their vows: Quaestiones quodlibetales, 2.8.2, ed. Raimondo Spiazzi (Turin, 1949), 36–38. Yet on both occasions Innocent was merely expressing his readiness to divert crusaders if it became necessary, and at that stage a detailed statement about conditions of service would hardly be expected.

134 Bullarium Franciscanum (n. 35 above), 1:714; see also Verci, Storia degli Ecelini (n. 116 above), 3:363–65 doc. 210.

135 Memoriale fratris Walteri de Coventria, ed. William Stubbs, 2 vols., Rolls Series 58 (London, 1872–73), 2:235.

136 Royal and Other Historical Letters Illustrative of the Reign of Henry III, ed. Walter Waddington Shirley, 2 vols., Rolls Series 27 (London, 1862–66), 1:527–28; MAB, 2.2:172–74 doc. 140; RHGF, 19:623–24; The Letters and Charters of Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, Papal Legate in England, 1216–1218, ed. Nicholas Vincent, Canterbury and York Society 83 (Woodbridge, 1996), 137–39 doc. 168.

137 Letters and Charters of Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, 64–65 doc. 83; Foedera, 1.1:146.

138 Lloyd, Simon, “‘Political Crusades’ in England, c. 1215–17 and c. 1263–5,” in Crusade and Settlement: Papers Read at the First Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and Presented to R. C. Smail, ed. Edbury, Peter W. (Cardiff, 1985), 114–15Google Scholar; Lloyd, English Society and the Crusade (n. 120 above), 209; Tyerman, England and the Crusades (n. 120 above), 138, 141–42; Carpenter, D. A., The Minority of Henry III (London, 1990), 28Google Scholar.

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140 RG, 2:512–13 doc. 3395; Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:179–80.

141 Thesaurus novus anecdotorum (n. 34 above), 1:998–99; VMH, 1:175 doc. 320; cf. Spence, “Gregory IX's Attempted Expeditions” (n. 100 above), 165–66; Lower, Barons’ Crusade (n. 100 above), 68, 102.

142 On justifications for Italian crusades, see Housley, Norman, The Italian Crusades: The Papal-Angevin Alliance and the Crusades against Christian Lay Powers, 1254–1343 (Oxford, 1982)Google Scholar, chap. 2.

143 ESXIII, 3:591–92 doc. 597; Registres de Clément IV (n. 68 above), 318–19 doc. 817; see also Foedera, 1.1:304; RI, 3:277 doc. 6818.

144 Siberry, Criticism of Crusading (n. 1 above), 175–89.

145 For comments by crusader theorists about the need for peace, see Leopold, Antony, How to Recover the Holy Land: The Crusade Proposals of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries (Aldershot, 2000), 52–59Google Scholar.

146 Foedera, 1.1:319–21; Registres de Clément IV, 318–19 doc. 817; cf. Maier, Christoph T., “Crusade and Rhetoric against the Muslim Colony of Lucera: Eudes of Châteauroux's Sermones de Rebellione Sarracenorum Lucherie in Apulia,” Journal of Medieval History 21 (1995): 343–85CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 346–50.

147 ESXIII, 1:706–7 doc. 801; see also ESXIII, 2:332, 335–36, 373–74 docs. 465, 504, 534.

148 ESXIII, 3:87–89 doc. 110.

149 Cf. Hostiensis, Summa aurea (n. 4 above), 3, De voto, 12 (1597 ed.), 217v.

150 Lower, Barons’ Crusade, 93, 100–101, 103.

151 Maier, Preaching the Crusades (n. 1 above), 40; Bullarium Franciscanum (n. 35 above), 1:218; RG, 2:638 doc. 3633. That Henry was to receive money for either cause was reiterated in 1238: Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:231–32; RG, 2:900–901 docs. 4105–6.

152 Lower, Barons’ Crusade, 71.

153 RG, 2:807–8 doc. 3945; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum (n. 3 above), 1:99.

154 RI, 2:160–61 doc. 4926; 3:111, 195 docs. 5979, 6422; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum, 1:99, 110–11, 188; Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:561; MAB, 3:577 doc. 109; 4:89 doc. 110; Councils and Synods with Other Documents Relating to the English Church, vol. 2, a.d. 1205–1313, ed. F. M. Powicke and C. R. Cheney (Oxford, 1964), 196; Brundage, Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader (n. 4 above), 128–30.

155 ESXIII, 2:296–97 doc. 408.

156 VMH, 1:97 doc. 171.

157 VMH, 1:175 doc. 320; RG, 2:218, 512–13 docs. 2879, 3395; ESXIII, 1:706–7 doc. 801; Bullarium Franciscanum, 1:179–81; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum, 1:110; see also Arnold of Lübeck, Chronica Slavorum (n. 56 above), 5.30, ed. Pertz, 214–15. When in 1213 Innocent III had sought to persuade those who had taken the cross against heretics to go instead to the Holy Land, he stated merely that if they refused they were to be compelled to fulfill their original vow: PL 216:904–5.

158 VMH, 1:102–3 doc. 177; see also RG, 2:639–40 doc. 3638. Chrissis, Crusading in Frankish Greece (n. 66 above), 128, argues that, by stating in 1240 that commutation was to depend on the willingness of crusaders, Gregory IX was changing his policy from “the earlier instructions for forced commutations.” Yet, apart from the letter sent in 1232, several other earlier letters about commutations from the Holy Land to the Latin Empire had also included this proviso: RG, 2:218, 512–13 docs. 2879, 3395; and the assertion about earlier forced commutations is not substantiated.

159 RI, 1:444 doc. 2960.

160 VMH, 1:125–26 doc. 212; RG, 1:1063 doc. 1957.

161 Menkonis Chronicon, ed. L. Weiland, MGH SS 23 (Hanover, 1874), 540; translated in Jackson, Seventh Crusade (n. 64 above), 61–62.

162 RG, 2:639–40, 840, 957 docs. 3638, 4012, 4219.

163 RG, 3:141 doc. 4983.

164 ESXIII, 1:619 doc. 720.

165 Registres de Clément IV (n. 68 above), 461, 488–89 docs. 1508, 1677; Thesaurus novus anecdotorum (n. 34 above), 2:384–85 doc. 353; Layettes du trésor des chartes (n. 125 above), 4:134 doc. 5048; E. Jordan, Les origines de la domination angevine en Italie, 2 vols. (Paris, 1909), 2:575.

166 Verci, Storia degli Ecelini (n. 116 above), 3:346–47 doc. 202; ESXIII, 3:125 doc. 143.

167 Verci, Storia degli Ecelini, 3:383–84, 396–97 docs. 225, 236; ESXIII, 3:378–80 doc. 422; Registres d'Alexandre IV (n. 68 above), 1:304–5 doc. 1013.

168 Lloyd, “‘Political Crusades’ in England” (n. 138 above), 116–17; Tyerman, England and the Crusades (n. 120 above), 144–45.

169 Foedera, 1.1:304.

170 Foedera, 1.1:298–300.

171 RG, 1:418 doc. 657; VMH, 1:102–3 doc. 177.

172 RG, 2:807–8 doc. 3945; Bullarium ordinis Praedicatorum (n. 3 above), 1:99.

173 Chronica majora, ed. Henry Richards Luard, 7 vols., Rolls Series 57 (London, 1872–83), 3:620.

174 RI, 1:444 doc. 2960.

175 Alfonso X later tried to persuade Hakon to commute his vow in order to assist the Castilian king in North Africa, but nothing came of this proposal: The Saga of Hacon, trans. Dasent, G. W., in Icelandic Sagas, 4 vols., Rolls Series 88 (London, 1887–94), 4:317Google Scholar; Gelsinger, Bruce E., “A Thirteenth-Century Norwegian-Castilian Alliance,” Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s. 10 (1981): 55–80Google Scholar, at 65.

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177 Registres de Clément IV (n. 68 above), 156 doc. 496; Housley, Italian Crusades (n. 142 above), 155.

178 Siberry, Criticism of Crusading (n. 1 above), chap. 6.

179 Annales de Burton, in Annales monastici, ed. Henry Richards Luard, 5 vols., Rolls Series 36 (London, 1864–69), 1:360.

180 Documents of the Baronial Movement of Reform and Rebellion, 1258–1267, ed. R. E. Treharne and I. J. Sanders (Oxford, 1973), 278 doc. 37C. The text is defective but the meaning is clear.

181 Chronica majora, 5:680–81.

182 RHGF, 19:690–91; MAB, 3:299–301 doc. 19.

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184 Layettes du trésor des chartes (n. 125 above), 4:161–62 doc. 5119; Servois, G., “Emprunts de saint Louis en Palestine et Afrique,” Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 19 (1858): 283–93CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 288–89.

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193 Registres de Boniface VIII (n. 54 above), 3:452–53 doc. 4625.

194 Le registre de Benoît XI, ed. Charles Grandjean (Paris, 1905), 607–9 docs. 1007–8; Regestum Clementis papae V, 9 vols. (Rome, 1885–92), 1:44–45 doc. 247.

195 On the declining numbers of crusaders from Germany and central Europe to the Holy Land, see Morton, “In subsidium” (n. 93 above), 38–66.

196 What has been described as a royalist tract certainly warned the rebels of the action which might be taken by the papal legate, but this did not mention the commutation of crusading vows: Annales de Theokesberia, in Annales monastici (n. 179 above), 1:179–80; Tyerman, England and the Crusades (n. 120 above), 144.

197 On the financing of Baltic crusades, see Fonnesberg-Schmidt, Popes and the Baltic Crusades (n. 2 above), 149, 197, 200, 237–39, 246. For grants of crusading taxes to Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and Alfonso X, see Mansilla, Documentación de Honorio III (n. 41 above), 160–61 doc. 207; Documentos de Gregorio X (1272–1276) referentes a España, ed. Santiago Domínguez Sánchez (León, 1997), 240–43 docs. 110–11; Registres de Grégoire X, 359–60 docs. 910, 912.

198 MAB, 3:24–27, 30 docs. 16, 19; Rist, Papacy and Crusading in Europe (n. 84 above), 98–99.