Gregory's answer to the summons of a diet at Piacenza
was to appoint as his legate in Lombardy not the Patriarch
of Antioch, as requested by Frederick, but the Cardinal
Bishop of Palestrina, a native of Piacenza.
was to appoint as his legate in Lombardy not the Patriarch
of Antioch, as requested by Frederick, but the Cardinal
Bishop of Palestrina, a native of Piacenza.
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dilatory tactics (frustratoriis dilationibus) to prevent the ex-
pedition fixed for the following year. 1
After Frederick's reply nothing could go right between him
and the Pope. In September, Gregory informed Frederick
that he had cancelled an order of the papal legate in Pales-
tine, placing the people of Acre under interdict, and he also
informed him that while he had restored the status quo ante
before the quarrel began between Frederick's marshal and
the nobles of Palestine, he ought to replace his marshal next
year by some one to be selected by the Pope. 2 On the same
clay he wrote Hermann, the Master of the Teutonic Order,
complaining bitterly of the conditions attached by the emperor
to the settlement by the Pope of the Lombard question.
These conditions were, as we have seen, that the settlement
should be on terms honourable to the emperor and for the
good of the empire, and that the decision must be given on
an early date. 3 Gregory repeated this complaint to Frederick,
1 L. o. , 195, 24th August 1236.
Frederick informed the Pope of the
eager desire of the German princes
for the expedition against the Lom-
bards : " Nos autom, qui vestris
paternis consiliis adherentes, quanto
prosperioribus potentie nostre suc-
cessibus gloriamur . . , cum maiori
benegnitate intendimus habere pro-
cessum et innate mansuetudinis mode-
ramine perfruentes Deo et ecclesie
cupimus effiei gratiores, a consilio et
voluntate vestra nolumus seperari," he
agrees to leave the matter to the Pope
on the same conditions as before pro.
vided " quod usque ad festum nativi-
tatis dominice primo venturum idem
negotium ad honorem nostrum et
imperii commode componatur. Nam
si ultra dilatio compositionis accederet,
intolerablile videretur, si Lombardi,
sicut moris eorum est, molirentur
ducere nos per verba et tam sollempnis
per principes et proceres imperii
expeditio iam prefixa posset frus-
tatoriis Lombardorum dilationibus
impederi. '*
>> Epis. Sae. XHI. , vol. i. 656, 22nd
September 1235.
>> L. c. , 657, 22nd September 1235.
With regard to Frederick's conditions
Gregory remarks, " Verum cum ex
huismodi serie litterarum, a prefati
verbo iudicis differente, ac ex eo, quod
imperialis industria talem conditionem
adiecit, per quam compromissum tolli-
tur et alquatenus tantum posse tor-
minari negotium non videtur, . . . "
and he asks Herman to beg the emperor
" quod super eodem negotio se iuxta
memoratam formam precise ac sine
conditione aliqua in manibus ponst
ecclesie et se illis laboribus non invol-
vat, a quibus de facili nequeat expe-
diri, diligenter moneas et inducas;
nuntiaturus eidem, quod si iamdicte
provisionis tenorem quod absit in-
fringens contra Lombardos, maxime
si se precise in manibus ecclesie pone re
sint parati, hoc potissimum tempore
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to his legate in Lombardy, and even to the rectors of the
League, though in writing them he warned them of the danger
if they did not comply with his summons to attend at an
early date. 1
The Lombards, instead of attending on the date fixed,
renewed in November the League, in which Ferrara was now
included. 2 In Verona a new podesta was appointed, and
imperialists, who would not obey him, were threatened with
excommunication by the Pope. 3 Gregory renewed his old
complaints regarding the administration in Sicily. Frederick
expressed his surprise that the Pope should be disturbed by
mere rumours, and Gregory answered on the last day of
February by a lurid description, but without details, of what
was going on there. * Frederick had in his letter taken credit
to himself for disbelieving that the Church had anything to
do with the renewal of the League or with events in Tuscany
and Verona. The Pope let him know plainly that he would
proceed with the excommunication of any disobeying the
new podesta in Verona, a " fldelis " of the Pope and appointed
by him. So far as the League was concerned it was not sur-
prising that fear of the emperor should have led to its renewal,
nor that the members of the League should have endeavoured
to enlist public opinion in their favour (quod sibi favorem
acquirere moliantur) by giving out that the Church had
favoured their action. 8 The letter was unfriendly, if not hostile,
lisset, id pati equinamiter eandem
ecclesiam non deceret," Gregory
makes no reference to the new
situation created by the Lombard
treaty with Henry, entered into after
both parties had agreed to the Pope's
arbitration.
1 L. o. , 658, 661, 662. In the letter to
the Lombards, Gregory directs them
to attend on the day fixed " Alioquin
vobis poteritis imputare, si quod vobis
periculum exinde contigerit immin-
nere. "
>> H. B. , vol. iv. p. 796 f. , 5th and
7th November 1235.
? Epis. Sae. XIII. , vol. i. 676, p.
575 (and H. -B. , iv. p. 828 f. , especially
831-2).
? L. c. , 676.
? L. c. , 676, p. 575, 1. 20 f. , Gregory
writes, " ai Lombardi vel alii tue metu
potentie sibi a futuris student cosibus
precavere et iuxta sapientiam huius
mundi aliquid de ecclesia pro sua parte
disseminant, . . . si Veronensibus ad
bonum pacis per venerabiles fratres
nostros . . . auctoritate nostra reductis,
et. . . nobilem virum . . . fidelem nos-
trum ad nuntiorum utriusque partis
instantiam, iniuncto ei quod via proced-
ens regia nequaquam ad sinistram vel
dexteram declinaret, in potestatem duxi -
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and ended with an open threat. Three weeks later Gregory
announced the arrival of the Lombard envoys, who stated
that they were unavoidably prevented from coming before
(Gregory gives no reason in this nor in any other letter), and
he asked Frederick to send back the Master of the Teutonic
Order to enable the Pope to deal with the matter. The
Lombards had undertaken to accept the Pope's orders, and the
Church could not tolerate an attack in the meantime on
them (id pati equinamiter candem ecclesiam non deceret). 1
Frederick answered Gregory in April, pointing out it was
very difficult to deal with general complaints, and his officers
might in some cases have done wrong; if so, he would deal
with them severely. Clerics had only to appear in his courts
when a dispute concerned a fief or lands in his own demesne.
He denied the charge that he ill-treated those who had sup-
ported the Church. We need not follow him in his denial of
other charges, but may note that he warned the Pope that
if he excommunicated people in Verona who had, in the
name of the emperor, ejected persons corrupted by the Lom-
bards, it would confirm the opinion that Gregory desired to
force Verona into the Lombard League. 2
Besides answering the Pope, Frederick took steps to have
public opinion on his side. He wrote Louis IX. , complaining
mus providendem, non est, quid nobis
valoat imputare. Verumtamen susti-
nere non possumus, quin contra eos,
qui, excommunicationum sententiis,
iuramentis et penis interpositis vili-
pensis, potestatem, qui pure se habuit
et de sineeritate fidei ab utraque
parte publico commendatur, cape re et
pacem non sunt veriti violare, sicut
iustitia exigit, procedamus. "
1 L. c. , 678, 21st March 1236. Ore-
gory ends the letter as follows : " Dili-
genter enim considerare te convenit,
quod illi qui excellence tue contraire
consulunt, ad id te nituntur inducere,
per quod te illis laboribus involute
de quibus de facili nequeas expediri,
utilitates suas fortius valeant pro-
curare. "
<< H. -B. , vol. iv. p. 828 f. , 16th Apri
l
1236. With regard to Verona, Frederick
writes (pp. 831-2): " Denique littera-
rum vestrarum caudam dissimulatione
non videmus transeundam, in qua
contra Veronenses qui Lombardorum
versutiis involuti, ejectis de civitate
illis qui corrupti jam fuerant fraudibus
et pecunia Lombardorum, nomen nos-
trum et imperii publice invocarunt,
ad excommunicationis sententiam vos
velle procedere dixistis; nec in hoc
commodum nostrum solummodo, sed
honorem Ecclcsie contemplamur. Non-
nulli sunt etenim qui, forsitan zizani-
orum fill i, ad aggregandum ci vita tem
ipsam societati Lombardorum sub
pretextu petitionis obsidum vos extim-
ant aspirasse. "
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? CHAP. III. ] FREDERICK II. , HONORIUS m. , GREGORY IX. 273
of the Pope's attitude towards the Lombard situation, his
insistence on an unqualified acceptance of his arbitration,
and suspension of action against the Lombards pending the
crusade, a crusade which could not take place till the truce
with the Sultan had expired. 1 He also wrote Henry ILT. ,
asking for his good offices, and Henry III. did write both
the Pope and the cardinals on his behalf. 2
Frederick evidently did not accede to the Pope's request
to leave the settlement of the Lombard affairs in his hands,
for in May he issued an encyclical announcing that he would
hold an assembly at Piacenza, to which he invited envoys
from all Italian cities north of Eome (ab urbe citra), at which
he desired the presence also of ambassadors from Milan and
other League cities. Its object was to prepare the way for
a crusade, and to do this it was necessary to consider means
for suppressing heresy, for securing the rights of the Church
and of the empire, and finally for restoring peace, and doing
justice to sufferers from the dissensions in Italy. He dwelt
on the importance of the empire not only in temporal matters,
but also in protecting the Church from injury by heretics or
others. 3
1 L. c. , p. 872 f. Written not long
after Gregory's letter of 21st March
1236. Frederick complains of Gregory
(p. 879) that "processum nostrum in
Italiam, quem odiose quodam guerre
vocabulo donotare velle videtur, occa-
sione Terre Sancte suspendi rogavit ad
presens. . . . Nunquam enim inten-
tionem pape talem esse credimus quod
occasione transmarini negotii deberet
justicie gladius hebetari. Nam et post
edictam constitutionem eamdem, con-
tumaciam Romanorum jura Ecclesie
usurpantium, requirente Ecclesia non
dimisimus impunitam. Sic quilibet con-
tra nos et imperium posset calcaneum
indevotionis erigere, sic posset quilibet
rapinas et furta ac quelibet scolera
perpetuare sed mucronem quem de
manu Dei ad bonorum laudem et vin-
dictam malefactorum accepimus, eva-
ginare propterea non possemus. "
VOL. V.
* Henry wrote not only to the Pope,
but also to several cardinals, " amicis
nostris de curia specialibus. " Rymer's
'Foedera,' vol. i. 1, p. 228. (Vide his
second letter to the emperor).
>> M. G. H. . ' Const. ,' ii. 200, May
1236. Frederick makes it quite clear
that his immediate object is to deal with
the rebellious cities (p. 267, 1. 27 f. ):
" pacatis undique populis, sub devo-
tione nostri nominis perseverant, nisi
ut illud Ytalie medium, quod nostris
undique viribus circumdatur, ad nostre
serenitatis obsequia redeat et imperii
unitatem. Nec in hoo providere tan-
tummodo commodis nostris intendimus,
sed super hoc crucis negocium direc-
tissime procuratur . . . relicto in tam
nobile regione imperii nostri corpore
lacerato et dissimulata tam veteri
rebellione rebellium, assumere tantum
negocium non possimus. "
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Gregory's answer to the summons of a diet at Piacenza
was to appoint as his legate in Lombardy not the Patriarch
of Antioch, as requested by Frederick, but the Cardinal
Bishop of Palestrina, a native of Piacenza. Gregory wrote
Frederick that he had specially selected him, and that Frederick
could rely on his studying the honour of the Church and of
the empire, as he had abandoned all for God, and Frederick
must pay no attention to hostile remarks regarding him. 1
Gregory wrote at the same time to Herman, Master of the
Teutonic Order, who had apparently expressed his fears that
the Pope was about to take hostile action against the emperor.
He hotly denied the suggestion, and defended the bishop's
appointment. 2 That Herman should have written in this way
is very significant, as he was a peacemaker whose services
were constantly required both by the Pope and by the emperor.
The appointment of the bishop needed a good deal of justifica-
tion from the imperial point of view, for, as a result of his
action, in the following month the control of Piacenza was
taken out of the hands of the imperialists and given to a
podesta from Venice, thus entirely frustrating Frederick's
plans for a meeting there. 3
A short time before this Frederick had addressed the
Eomans, complaining of their failure to send envoys to meet
him on his arrival in Italy, and had reproached them with
their failure to support him against the people of Milan. *
1 Epis. Sae. Xm, vol. i. 691, 10th
June 1236. Gregory in his letter in-
formed Frederick that, on the advice
of his cardinals, he had decided to send
the Bishop of Palestrina as his legate
to Lombardy " de quo firmam potes
fiduciam gerere, quod cum a se sua et
suos propter Deum abdicaverit et
semetipsum eius servitio totaliter dedi-
carit, ad ea dumtaxat studebit prooe-
dere, quibus honorem ecclesie possit
ac imperii confovere, sicut ex ipsius
operibus colligere poteris evidenter ; et
si qui aliud suggerant, imperialis oxcel-
lentia auditum malevolis interdicat. "
> L. c. , 692, 10th June 123<<.
* The authorities are quoted, H. -B. ,
vol. iv. p. 904, note 2.
* L. c. , p. 901, attributed by H. -B.
to August 1236. " Ecce nunc Medio-
lanensium superbia sedem ab aquilone
obi constituit, non contents solum-
modo quod Rome sit simulis nisi
Romano imperio contradicat. Ecce
hii qui tenebantur vobis, ut dicitur,
tribute, persolvere, vobis contumalias
afferunt pro tributis. . . . Respon-
debitis forsitan qnod ista magnalia
reges et cesares faciebant. Ecce
quod re gem habetia et cesarem qui pro
exaltatione Romani imperii personam
exposuit, thesauros aperuit, laboribus
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Frederick's attempts to get the active support of the Eomans
ran counter to the agreements made by him at various times
with the Papacy regarding the patrimony, and could only be
justified as a measure of self-defence in a contest with the
Papacy.
Frederick gave further cause of offence by detaining a
nephew of the ruler of Tunis, although, according to the
Pope, he desired to go to Eome to be baptised. 1
Angry correspondence followed between the Pope and the
emperor. Frederick complained of the conduct of the Bishop
of Palestrina, and charged the Pope with sending him a
string of complaints instead of excommunicating the Lom-
bards for their contumacious behaviour. As regards the
complaints, Frederick promised to give redress if he found
in any case that wrong had been done. 2 Gregory wrote a
very angry reply. Frederick was one of those who dared
" os in coelum ponere. " He defended the bishop ; he had no
evidence that the Lombards were contumacious. They had
accepted the intervention of the Church, and he refused to
accept Frederick's promise to amend any wrong done. He
complained of Frederick's attempt to stir up the Eomans, his
lack of devotion, and his conduct with regard to the filling up
of benefices in the Sicilian kingdom. He ended his catalogue
of Frederick's sins by declaring that the most serious of all
were the hindrances he put in the way of the recovery of the
Holy Land by not allowing a crusade to be preached, and by
not permitting contributions towards it from his subjects
save with his assent.
In the course of his letter Gregory referred to Constantine's
Donation and the subsequent transfer of the empire to the
Germans. As regards the Donation he claimed that it was
made with the consent of the Senate, and people not only
of Eome but of the whole empire, as Constantine held it right
that the vicar of the prince of the apostles who ruled over
non pepercit. . . . vestre sollicitudinis 1 Epie. Sae. XIII. , vol. i. 694, 23rd
ltudium excitamus, eisdemque super June 1236. Letter from Gregory to
hiiaquo honorom Urbiset orbis respiciunt Frederick,
vota vestra plenissime conferatis;" * L. o. , 692, 10th June 1236
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the priesthood and the souls of men should also hold the
lordship over the whole world and over the bodies of men.
Subsequently it was the papal see which transferred the empire
to the Germans, parting, however, with none of the substance
of its jurisdiction. The power of the sword was given him by
the Pope at the coronation when the emperor obtained his
crown. 1
1 L. c. , 703, 23rd October 1236.
p. 600, 1 . 38 f. "Unde nichil de
tuo iure usurpasse, de tuo nichil,
licet contrarium asseras, occupasse
officio credimur, si nos, de quorum
consilio te ad id in principio,
medio et fine procedere, sicut pluries
promisisti, decuerat, prompti nostrum
summo creditori exolvere debitum
invemmur.
Quarts premissa . . . diligentius
attendentes, ilium, ut per eum nostrum
impleremus ministerium, clegimus in
hac parte ministrum, qui eo tibi et
quibuscumque discordantibus minori
posset haberi ratione sub pectus, quo
eius mens terrenis desideriis absolute
suis actibus fermenti minus ingereret
odii vel am oris, qui se ipsum et sua
relinquens in divini amoris altitudinem
evolasset. . . . Nec enim locus originis
recte contra eum in suspicionis argu-
mentum inducitur, cum non bonitas
hominis deformetur a loco, set potius
loci malitia per hominem reformetur.
. . . eui nichil posse credimus imputari,
si eo presente sedata sint intestina
bella Placentie, si alique civitates
Lombardie, cladibus preliorum op-
presse, ad pacis fuerint duloedinom
invitate. Quiuimmo tibi ad infamiam
reputatur, quod, ecclesia suo prefato
median te legato, pacem imperii de-
digneris vel non patiaris potius refor-
mari. " He is, however, prepared to
do justice if he can prove anything
against him.
As regards the Lombards (p. 601,
1- 41 f. ), " Nec etiam nobis de obiecta
eis contumacia constitit, ad quos pro
facto imperii mandatum apostolicum,
cui superba cervice restiterint, nulla-
tenus emanavit; quinimmo compromis-
sum in manus nostras venerabili fratre
nostro . . . patriarcha Antiocheno
procurante toque petente firmante3,
. . . " As regards Frederick's answers
and promises to give satisfaction
(p. 602, 1 . 19 f. ), "sicut non in
principio, sic in fine non credi-
mus, qui simili promissione delusos
multoties nos dolemus. Indigne ergo
super oppressionibus predictarum eccle-
siarum et hominum regni, in quo nullus
manum vel pedem absque tuo movet
imperio, affirmativam nostra proposi-
tionis negativa ignorantie imperialis
interimis, quibus consensum vel origi-
ri me prestitisse . . . non solum scire
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After this letter one might have expected an immediate
breach, but instead there was a very marked abatement of
the tension. Notwithstanding Gregory's defence of the Bishop
of Palestrina, he was replaced a month later by two other
legates, and the Pope wrote Frederick six months later that
he had done this on the representation of Herman, the Grand
Master of the Teutonic Order, and of Peter de Vinea, the
chief justice of the kingdom. 1
Some time before this letter Gregory had again approached
Frederick with a view to making a further attempt at a
peaceable settlement, and the emperor had agreed to send
Herman to negotiate, though with some hesitation, in view
of the predecessor of the new legates. 2 When Gregory officially
notified Frederick, he also wrote the Lombard cities belonging
to the League, stating that Frederick had sent special envoys
asking the Pope to assist in dealing with the matters at issue
between him and the Lombards. In virtue of his office, the
Pope could not refuse, and he accordingly advised and directed
them to send their procurators armed with full powers to
Mantua to meet the papal legates. He ended by assuring
moliris, illius sequens exemplum qui
absorbens fluvium non miratur, . . .
neo non et imperium cure perpetuo
tradidit, et nefarium reputans, ut ubi
caput totius Christiane religionis ab
imperatore celesti di&ponitur, ibidem
terrenus imperator potestate aliqua
fungeretur, Italiam apostolice disposi-
tioni relinquens, sibi novam in Grecia
mansionem elegit; de qua postmodum
in persona prefati magnifici Caroli,
qui iugum a Romana ecclesia vix
ferendum impositum pia debere docuit
devotione portari, sedes apostolica
transferena in German os, predecee-
soribus tuis( aicut et in tua peraona
recolis esse factum, in consecrationis
et inunctionia munere, nichil do suba.
tantia sue iuriadictionia imminuens,
imperii tribunal supposuit et gladii
potestatem in subsecuta coronatione
concessit; ex quo iuri apostolice sedis
et non minus fidei ac honori tuo dero-
gare convinceris, dum factorem pro-
prium non agnoscia. "
1 L. o. , 707, 23rd May 1237.
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Frederick to Gregory. " Nam licet
istorum legatorum (i. 6. , the cardinal
bishop of Ostia and the cardinal priest
Thomas) sequentium fides et merita
[non solum] apud Deum et homines,
sod apud nos maxime longe discrepent
a priori (i. e. , the Bishop of Palestrina),
eadem tamen erat omnimodo legationis
istorum forma oum prima. " Frederick
remarka in another part of the letter,
" Quod enim aollicitudinis nostre labo-
ribus suum divina potentia diebus
nostria exaltat imperium . . . si sub-
tiliter et emcaoiter verum vellemus
inspicere, major vobia ex hoc exalta-
tionis materia deboret afferri quam
nobis, ut pote cum in exaltatione
Komani imperii Romana patenter
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After Gregory's letter of 23rd October 1236, his complaints
of Frederick's conduct do not recommence till March 1238.
During this period, after negotiations had broken down, the
League forces were routed at Portenuovo in November 1237,
and in consequence the League cities were prepared to make
very large concessions. Negotiations, however, again broke
down, according to Frederick, over questions regarding host-
ages and the imperial jurisdiction over the cities. 1 In January
1238, Frederick sent the Eomans the carrocio taken from the
Milanese at Oortenuovo, with a letter indicating a close con-
nection between him and the city, the " urbs regia " ; a chal-
lenge to the curia. 2
In June 1238 the Pope wrote Frederick asking his consent
to papal mediation between him and the Lombards. Frederick
refused, but in August he himself sent an embassy to the
Pope, of which we have conflicting accounts from Gregory
and Frederick, each throwing the blame on the other for its
failure. 3 After the mission had left Eome, Gregory drew
up a number of detailed charges against Frederick, and he
1 L. c. , 252, August 1244, pp. 348
and 349. Frederick's account, which
is in some detail, seems more prob-
able than the story that negotiations
broke down because he insisted on
unconditional surrender.
? H. -B. , vol. v. p. 162 f. , January
1238. Frederick to the Roman senate
and people. In this letter he writes :
" Ab observatione quoque cujuslibet
rationis intentio nostra discederet si
nos quos Romani Cesaris fulgor illus-
trat Romanos expertes victorie romane
tripudiis pateremur, si vos fructu
negotii, quod vestro nomine gessimus,
dum nos rebelles romani imperii sub
romani nominis exclamatione devici-
mus fraudaremus ; si ad urbem regiam
regiminis nostri dec us non deferremus
et gloriam, que nos in Germaniam ad
nanciscendum imperiale fastigium velut
mater ab ulnis filium destinavit. "
>> For the Pope's request in June
1238 that Frederick would allow him
to mediate between him and the Lom-
bards, see Frederick's letter of July
in W. A. I. , vol. i. 351, from which it
appears that the Pope must have
written some time in June.
On the 6th August the Pope ap-
pointed Qregorio de Montelongo his
legate in Lombardy, vide Felten's ' Life
of Gregory IX.
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TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL POWERS. [PABT II.
dilatory tactics (frustratoriis dilationibus) to prevent the ex-
pedition fixed for the following year. 1
After Frederick's reply nothing could go right between him
and the Pope. In September, Gregory informed Frederick
that he had cancelled an order of the papal legate in Pales-
tine, placing the people of Acre under interdict, and he also
informed him that while he had restored the status quo ante
before the quarrel began between Frederick's marshal and
the nobles of Palestine, he ought to replace his marshal next
year by some one to be selected by the Pope. 2 On the same
clay he wrote Hermann, the Master of the Teutonic Order,
complaining bitterly of the conditions attached by the emperor
to the settlement by the Pope of the Lombard question.
These conditions were, as we have seen, that the settlement
should be on terms honourable to the emperor and for the
good of the empire, and that the decision must be given on
an early date. 3 Gregory repeated this complaint to Frederick,
1 L. o. , 195, 24th August 1236.
Frederick informed the Pope of the
eager desire of the German princes
for the expedition against the Lom-
bards : " Nos autom, qui vestris
paternis consiliis adherentes, quanto
prosperioribus potentie nostre suc-
cessibus gloriamur . . , cum maiori
benegnitate intendimus habere pro-
cessum et innate mansuetudinis mode-
ramine perfruentes Deo et ecclesie
cupimus effiei gratiores, a consilio et
voluntate vestra nolumus seperari," he
agrees to leave the matter to the Pope
on the same conditions as before pro.
vided " quod usque ad festum nativi-
tatis dominice primo venturum idem
negotium ad honorem nostrum et
imperii commode componatur. Nam
si ultra dilatio compositionis accederet,
intolerablile videretur, si Lombardi,
sicut moris eorum est, molirentur
ducere nos per verba et tam sollempnis
per principes et proceres imperii
expeditio iam prefixa posset frus-
tatoriis Lombardorum dilationibus
impederi. '*
>> Epis. Sae. XHI. , vol. i. 656, 22nd
September 1235.
>> L. c. , 657, 22nd September 1235.
With regard to Frederick's conditions
Gregory remarks, " Verum cum ex
huismodi serie litterarum, a prefati
verbo iudicis differente, ac ex eo, quod
imperialis industria talem conditionem
adiecit, per quam compromissum tolli-
tur et alquatenus tantum posse tor-
minari negotium non videtur, . . . "
and he asks Herman to beg the emperor
" quod super eodem negotio se iuxta
memoratam formam precise ac sine
conditione aliqua in manibus ponst
ecclesie et se illis laboribus non invol-
vat, a quibus de facili nequeat expe-
diri, diligenter moneas et inducas;
nuntiaturus eidem, quod si iamdicte
provisionis tenorem quod absit in-
fringens contra Lombardos, maxime
si se precise in manibus ecclesie pone re
sint parati, hoc potissimum tempore
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to his legate in Lombardy, and even to the rectors of the
League, though in writing them he warned them of the danger
if they did not comply with his summons to attend at an
early date. 1
The Lombards, instead of attending on the date fixed,
renewed in November the League, in which Ferrara was now
included. 2 In Verona a new podesta was appointed, and
imperialists, who would not obey him, were threatened with
excommunication by the Pope. 3 Gregory renewed his old
complaints regarding the administration in Sicily. Frederick
expressed his surprise that the Pope should be disturbed by
mere rumours, and Gregory answered on the last day of
February by a lurid description, but without details, of what
was going on there. * Frederick had in his letter taken credit
to himself for disbelieving that the Church had anything to
do with the renewal of the League or with events in Tuscany
and Verona. The Pope let him know plainly that he would
proceed with the excommunication of any disobeying the
new podesta in Verona, a " fldelis " of the Pope and appointed
by him. So far as the League was concerned it was not sur-
prising that fear of the emperor should have led to its renewal,
nor that the members of the League should have endeavoured
to enlist public opinion in their favour (quod sibi favorem
acquirere moliantur) by giving out that the Church had
favoured their action. 8 The letter was unfriendly, if not hostile,
lisset, id pati equinamiter eandem
ecclesiam non deceret," Gregory
makes no reference to the new
situation created by the Lombard
treaty with Henry, entered into after
both parties had agreed to the Pope's
arbitration.
1 L. o. , 658, 661, 662. In the letter to
the Lombards, Gregory directs them
to attend on the day fixed " Alioquin
vobis poteritis imputare, si quod vobis
periculum exinde contigerit immin-
nere. "
>> H. B. , vol. iv. p. 796 f. , 5th and
7th November 1235.
? Epis. Sae. XIII. , vol. i. 676, p.
575 (and H. -B. , iv. p. 828 f. , especially
831-2).
? L. c. , 676.
? L. c. , 676, p. 575, 1. 20 f. , Gregory
writes, " ai Lombardi vel alii tue metu
potentie sibi a futuris student cosibus
precavere et iuxta sapientiam huius
mundi aliquid de ecclesia pro sua parte
disseminant, . . . si Veronensibus ad
bonum pacis per venerabiles fratres
nostros . . . auctoritate nostra reductis,
et. . . nobilem virum . . . fidelem nos-
trum ad nuntiorum utriusque partis
instantiam, iniuncto ei quod via proced-
ens regia nequaquam ad sinistram vel
dexteram declinaret, in potestatem duxi -
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TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL POWERS.
and ended with an open threat. Three weeks later Gregory
announced the arrival of the Lombard envoys, who stated
that they were unavoidably prevented from coming before
(Gregory gives no reason in this nor in any other letter), and
he asked Frederick to send back the Master of the Teutonic
Order to enable the Pope to deal with the matter. The
Lombards had undertaken to accept the Pope's orders, and the
Church could not tolerate an attack in the meantime on
them (id pati equinamiter candem ecclesiam non deceret). 1
Frederick answered Gregory in April, pointing out it was
very difficult to deal with general complaints, and his officers
might in some cases have done wrong; if so, he would deal
with them severely. Clerics had only to appear in his courts
when a dispute concerned a fief or lands in his own demesne.
He denied the charge that he ill-treated those who had sup-
ported the Church. We need not follow him in his denial of
other charges, but may note that he warned the Pope that
if he excommunicated people in Verona who had, in the
name of the emperor, ejected persons corrupted by the Lom-
bards, it would confirm the opinion that Gregory desired to
force Verona into the Lombard League. 2
Besides answering the Pope, Frederick took steps to have
public opinion on his side. He wrote Louis IX. , complaining
mus providendem, non est, quid nobis
valoat imputare. Verumtamen susti-
nere non possumus, quin contra eos,
qui, excommunicationum sententiis,
iuramentis et penis interpositis vili-
pensis, potestatem, qui pure se habuit
et de sineeritate fidei ab utraque
parte publico commendatur, cape re et
pacem non sunt veriti violare, sicut
iustitia exigit, procedamus. "
1 L. c. , 678, 21st March 1236. Ore-
gory ends the letter as follows : " Dili-
genter enim considerare te convenit,
quod illi qui excellence tue contraire
consulunt, ad id te nituntur inducere,
per quod te illis laboribus involute
de quibus de facili nequeas expediri,
utilitates suas fortius valeant pro-
curare. "
<< H. -B. , vol. iv. p. 828 f. , 16th Apri
l
1236. With regard to Verona, Frederick
writes (pp. 831-2): " Denique littera-
rum vestrarum caudam dissimulatione
non videmus transeundam, in qua
contra Veronenses qui Lombardorum
versutiis involuti, ejectis de civitate
illis qui corrupti jam fuerant fraudibus
et pecunia Lombardorum, nomen nos-
trum et imperii publice invocarunt,
ad excommunicationis sententiam vos
velle procedere dixistis; nec in hoc
commodum nostrum solummodo, sed
honorem Ecclcsie contemplamur. Non-
nulli sunt etenim qui, forsitan zizani-
orum fill i, ad aggregandum ci vita tem
ipsam societati Lombardorum sub
pretextu petitionis obsidum vos extim-
ant aspirasse. "
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? CHAP. III. ] FREDERICK II. , HONORIUS m. , GREGORY IX. 273
of the Pope's attitude towards the Lombard situation, his
insistence on an unqualified acceptance of his arbitration,
and suspension of action against the Lombards pending the
crusade, a crusade which could not take place till the truce
with the Sultan had expired. 1 He also wrote Henry ILT. ,
asking for his good offices, and Henry III. did write both
the Pope and the cardinals on his behalf. 2
Frederick evidently did not accede to the Pope's request
to leave the settlement of the Lombard affairs in his hands,
for in May he issued an encyclical announcing that he would
hold an assembly at Piacenza, to which he invited envoys
from all Italian cities north of Eome (ab urbe citra), at which
he desired the presence also of ambassadors from Milan and
other League cities. Its object was to prepare the way for
a crusade, and to do this it was necessary to consider means
for suppressing heresy, for securing the rights of the Church
and of the empire, and finally for restoring peace, and doing
justice to sufferers from the dissensions in Italy. He dwelt
on the importance of the empire not only in temporal matters,
but also in protecting the Church from injury by heretics or
others. 3
1 L. c. , p. 872 f. Written not long
after Gregory's letter of 21st March
1236. Frederick complains of Gregory
(p. 879) that "processum nostrum in
Italiam, quem odiose quodam guerre
vocabulo donotare velle videtur, occa-
sione Terre Sancte suspendi rogavit ad
presens. . . . Nunquam enim inten-
tionem pape talem esse credimus quod
occasione transmarini negotii deberet
justicie gladius hebetari. Nam et post
edictam constitutionem eamdem, con-
tumaciam Romanorum jura Ecclesie
usurpantium, requirente Ecclesia non
dimisimus impunitam. Sic quilibet con-
tra nos et imperium posset calcaneum
indevotionis erigere, sic posset quilibet
rapinas et furta ac quelibet scolera
perpetuare sed mucronem quem de
manu Dei ad bonorum laudem et vin-
dictam malefactorum accepimus, eva-
ginare propterea non possemus. "
VOL. V.
* Henry wrote not only to the Pope,
but also to several cardinals, " amicis
nostris de curia specialibus. " Rymer's
'Foedera,' vol. i. 1, p. 228. (Vide his
second letter to the emperor).
>> M. G. H. . ' Const. ,' ii. 200, May
1236. Frederick makes it quite clear
that his immediate object is to deal with
the rebellious cities (p. 267, 1. 27 f. ):
" pacatis undique populis, sub devo-
tione nostri nominis perseverant, nisi
ut illud Ytalie medium, quod nostris
undique viribus circumdatur, ad nostre
serenitatis obsequia redeat et imperii
unitatem. Nec in hoo providere tan-
tummodo commodis nostris intendimus,
sed super hoc crucis negocium direc-
tissime procuratur . . . relicto in tam
nobile regione imperii nostri corpore
lacerato et dissimulata tam veteri
rebellione rebellium, assumere tantum
negocium non possimus. "
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? 274 TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL POWERS. [PABT II.
Gregory's answer to the summons of a diet at Piacenza
was to appoint as his legate in Lombardy not the Patriarch
of Antioch, as requested by Frederick, but the Cardinal
Bishop of Palestrina, a native of Piacenza. Gregory wrote
Frederick that he had specially selected him, and that Frederick
could rely on his studying the honour of the Church and of
the empire, as he had abandoned all for God, and Frederick
must pay no attention to hostile remarks regarding him. 1
Gregory wrote at the same time to Herman, Master of the
Teutonic Order, who had apparently expressed his fears that
the Pope was about to take hostile action against the emperor.
He hotly denied the suggestion, and defended the bishop's
appointment. 2 That Herman should have written in this way
is very significant, as he was a peacemaker whose services
were constantly required both by the Pope and by the emperor.
The appointment of the bishop needed a good deal of justifica-
tion from the imperial point of view, for, as a result of his
action, in the following month the control of Piacenza was
taken out of the hands of the imperialists and given to a
podesta from Venice, thus entirely frustrating Frederick's
plans for a meeting there. 3
A short time before this Frederick had addressed the
Eomans, complaining of their failure to send envoys to meet
him on his arrival in Italy, and had reproached them with
their failure to support him against the people of Milan. *
1 Epis. Sae. Xm, vol. i. 691, 10th
June 1236. Gregory in his letter in-
formed Frederick that, on the advice
of his cardinals, he had decided to send
the Bishop of Palestrina as his legate
to Lombardy " de quo firmam potes
fiduciam gerere, quod cum a se sua et
suos propter Deum abdicaverit et
semetipsum eius servitio totaliter dedi-
carit, ad ea dumtaxat studebit prooe-
dere, quibus honorem ecclesie possit
ac imperii confovere, sicut ex ipsius
operibus colligere poteris evidenter ; et
si qui aliud suggerant, imperialis oxcel-
lentia auditum malevolis interdicat. "
> L. c. , 692, 10th June 123<<.
* The authorities are quoted, H. -B. ,
vol. iv. p. 904, note 2.
* L. c. , p. 901, attributed by H. -B.
to August 1236. " Ecce nunc Medio-
lanensium superbia sedem ab aquilone
obi constituit, non contents solum-
modo quod Rome sit simulis nisi
Romano imperio contradicat. Ecce
hii qui tenebantur vobis, ut dicitur,
tribute, persolvere, vobis contumalias
afferunt pro tributis. . . . Respon-
debitis forsitan qnod ista magnalia
reges et cesares faciebant. Ecce
quod re gem habetia et cesarem qui pro
exaltatione Romani imperii personam
exposuit, thesauros aperuit, laboribus
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? CHAP. III. ] FREDERICK II. , HONORIUS IH. , GREGORY IX. 275
Frederick's attempts to get the active support of the Eomans
ran counter to the agreements made by him at various times
with the Papacy regarding the patrimony, and could only be
justified as a measure of self-defence in a contest with the
Papacy.
Frederick gave further cause of offence by detaining a
nephew of the ruler of Tunis, although, according to the
Pope, he desired to go to Eome to be baptised. 1
Angry correspondence followed between the Pope and the
emperor. Frederick complained of the conduct of the Bishop
of Palestrina, and charged the Pope with sending him a
string of complaints instead of excommunicating the Lom-
bards for their contumacious behaviour. As regards the
complaints, Frederick promised to give redress if he found
in any case that wrong had been done. 2 Gregory wrote a
very angry reply. Frederick was one of those who dared
" os in coelum ponere. " He defended the bishop ; he had no
evidence that the Lombards were contumacious. They had
accepted the intervention of the Church, and he refused to
accept Frederick's promise to amend any wrong done. He
complained of Frederick's attempt to stir up the Eomans, his
lack of devotion, and his conduct with regard to the filling up
of benefices in the Sicilian kingdom. He ended his catalogue
of Frederick's sins by declaring that the most serious of all
were the hindrances he put in the way of the recovery of the
Holy Land by not allowing a crusade to be preached, and by
not permitting contributions towards it from his subjects
save with his assent.
In the course of his letter Gregory referred to Constantine's
Donation and the subsequent transfer of the empire to the
Germans. As regards the Donation he claimed that it was
made with the consent of the Senate, and people not only
of Eome but of the whole empire, as Constantine held it right
that the vicar of the prince of the apostles who ruled over
non pepercit. . . . vestre sollicitudinis 1 Epie. Sae. XIII. , vol. i. 694, 23rd
ltudium excitamus, eisdemque super June 1236. Letter from Gregory to
hiiaquo honorom Urbiset orbis respiciunt Frederick,
vota vestra plenissime conferatis;" * L. o. , 692, 10th June 1236
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[PART II.
TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL POWERS.
the priesthood and the souls of men should also hold the
lordship over the whole world and over the bodies of men.
Subsequently it was the papal see which transferred the empire
to the Germans, parting, however, with none of the substance
of its jurisdiction. The power of the sword was given him by
the Pope at the coronation when the emperor obtained his
crown. 1
1 L. c. , 703, 23rd October 1236.
p. 600, 1 . 38 f. "Unde nichil de
tuo iure usurpasse, de tuo nichil,
licet contrarium asseras, occupasse
officio credimur, si nos, de quorum
consilio te ad id in principio,
medio et fine procedere, sicut pluries
promisisti, decuerat, prompti nostrum
summo creditori exolvere debitum
invemmur.
Quarts premissa . . . diligentius
attendentes, ilium, ut per eum nostrum
impleremus ministerium, clegimus in
hac parte ministrum, qui eo tibi et
quibuscumque discordantibus minori
posset haberi ratione sub pectus, quo
eius mens terrenis desideriis absolute
suis actibus fermenti minus ingereret
odii vel am oris, qui se ipsum et sua
relinquens in divini amoris altitudinem
evolasset. . . . Nec enim locus originis
recte contra eum in suspicionis argu-
mentum inducitur, cum non bonitas
hominis deformetur a loco, set potius
loci malitia per hominem reformetur.
. . . eui nichil posse credimus imputari,
si eo presente sedata sint intestina
bella Placentie, si alique civitates
Lombardie, cladibus preliorum op-
presse, ad pacis fuerint duloedinom
invitate. Quiuimmo tibi ad infamiam
reputatur, quod, ecclesia suo prefato
median te legato, pacem imperii de-
digneris vel non patiaris potius refor-
mari. " He is, however, prepared to
do justice if he can prove anything
against him.
As regards the Lombards (p. 601,
1- 41 f. ), " Nec etiam nobis de obiecta
eis contumacia constitit, ad quos pro
facto imperii mandatum apostolicum,
cui superba cervice restiterint, nulla-
tenus emanavit; quinimmo compromis-
sum in manus nostras venerabili fratre
nostro . . . patriarcha Antiocheno
procurante toque petente firmante3,
. . . " As regards Frederick's answers
and promises to give satisfaction
(p. 602, 1 . 19 f. ), "sicut non in
principio, sic in fine non credi-
mus, qui simili promissione delusos
multoties nos dolemus. Indigne ergo
super oppressionibus predictarum eccle-
siarum et hominum regni, in quo nullus
manum vel pedem absque tuo movet
imperio, affirmativam nostra proposi-
tionis negativa ignorantie imperialis
interimis, quibus consensum vel origi-
ri me prestitisse . . . non solum scire
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? CHAP, m. ] FREDERICK II. , HONORITJS III. , GREGORY IX. 277
After this letter one might have expected an immediate
breach, but instead there was a very marked abatement of
the tension. Notwithstanding Gregory's defence of the Bishop
of Palestrina, he was replaced a month later by two other
legates, and the Pope wrote Frederick six months later that
he had done this on the representation of Herman, the Grand
Master of the Teutonic Order, and of Peter de Vinea, the
chief justice of the kingdom. 1
Some time before this letter Gregory had again approached
Frederick with a view to making a further attempt at a
peaceable settlement, and the emperor had agreed to send
Herman to negotiate, though with some hesitation, in view
of the predecessor of the new legates. 2 When Gregory officially
notified Frederick, he also wrote the Lombard cities belonging
to the League, stating that Frederick had sent special envoys
asking the Pope to assist in dealing with the matters at issue
between him and the Lombards. In virtue of his office, the
Pope could not refuse, and he accordingly advised and directed
them to send their procurators armed with full powers to
Mantua to meet the papal legates. He ended by assuring
moliris, illius sequens exemplum qui
absorbens fluvium non miratur, . . .
neo non et imperium cure perpetuo
tradidit, et nefarium reputans, ut ubi
caput totius Christiane religionis ab
imperatore celesti di&ponitur, ibidem
terrenus imperator potestate aliqua
fungeretur, Italiam apostolice disposi-
tioni relinquens, sibi novam in Grecia
mansionem elegit; de qua postmodum
in persona prefati magnifici Caroli,
qui iugum a Romana ecclesia vix
ferendum impositum pia debere docuit
devotione portari, sedes apostolica
transferena in German os, predecee-
soribus tuis( aicut et in tua peraona
recolis esse factum, in consecrationis
et inunctionia munere, nichil do suba.
tantia sue iuriadictionia imminuens,
imperii tribunal supposuit et gladii
potestatem in subsecuta coronatione
concessit; ex quo iuri apostolice sedis
et non minus fidei ac honori tuo dero-
gare convinceris, dum factorem pro-
prium non agnoscia. "
1 L. o. , 707, 23rd May 1237.
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Frederick to Gregory. " Nam licet
istorum legatorum (i. 6. , the cardinal
bishop of Ostia and the cardinal priest
Thomas) sequentium fides et merita
[non solum] apud Deum et homines,
sod apud nos maxime longe discrepent
a priori (i. e. , the Bishop of Palestrina),
eadem tamen erat omnimodo legationis
istorum forma oum prima. " Frederick
remarka in another part of the letter,
" Quod enim aollicitudinis nostre labo-
ribus suum divina potentia diebus
nostria exaltat imperium . . . si sub-
tiliter et emcaoiter verum vellemus
inspicere, major vobia ex hoc exalta-
tionis materia deboret afferri quam
nobis, ut pote cum in exaltatione
Komani imperii Romana patenter
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After Gregory's letter of 23rd October 1236, his complaints
of Frederick's conduct do not recommence till March 1238.
During this period, after negotiations had broken down, the
League forces were routed at Portenuovo in November 1237,
and in consequence the League cities were prepared to make
very large concessions. Negotiations, however, again broke
down, according to Frederick, over questions regarding host-
ages and the imperial jurisdiction over the cities. 1 In January
1238, Frederick sent the Eomans the carrocio taken from the
Milanese at Oortenuovo, with a letter indicating a close con-
nection between him and the city, the " urbs regia " ; a chal-
lenge to the curia. 2
In June 1238 the Pope wrote Frederick asking his consent
to papal mediation between him and the Lombards. Frederick
refused, but in August he himself sent an embassy to the
Pope, of which we have conflicting accounts from Gregory
and Frederick, each throwing the blame on the other for its
failure. 3 After the mission had left Eome, Gregory drew
up a number of detailed charges against Frederick, and he
1 L. c. , 252, August 1244, pp. 348
and 349. Frederick's account, which
is in some detail, seems more prob-
able than the story that negotiations
broke down because he insisted on
unconditional surrender.
? H. -B. , vol. v. p. 162 f. , January
1238. Frederick to the Roman senate
and people. In this letter he writes :
" Ab observatione quoque cujuslibet
rationis intentio nostra discederet si
nos quos Romani Cesaris fulgor illus-
trat Romanos expertes victorie romane
tripudiis pateremur, si vos fructu
negotii, quod vestro nomine gessimus,
dum nos rebelles romani imperii sub
romani nominis exclamatione devici-
mus fraudaremus ; si ad urbem regiam
regiminis nostri dec us non deferremus
et gloriam, que nos in Germaniam ad
nanciscendum imperiale fastigium velut
mater ab ulnis filium destinavit. "
>> For the Pope's request in June
1238 that Frederick would allow him
to mediate between him and the Lom-
bards, see Frederick's letter of July
in W. A. I. , vol. i. 351, from which it
appears that the Pope must have
written some time in June.
On the 6th August the Pope ap-
pointed Qregorio de Montelongo his
legate in Lombardy, vide Felten's ' Life
of Gregory IX.
