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32. Reg. Greg. IX, 3708; 3776
33. Ibid. 3775 (=orig. reg. Pérez Martínez, AA, XI, 164, no. 3: publ. VL, XXI, 286-7); 3777 (publ. Rius
Serra, San Raimundo: Diplomatário, 50-1; Junyent, Diplomatari de Sant Bernat Calvó, no. 109). They
chose Raimundo de Torrelles (cf. VL, XXI, 125 ff.) and the distinguished lawyer, Vidal de Canellas,
respectively. Arco assumed that Vidal was elected by the chapters of Huesca and Jaca: BRABL, VIII,
465-6. Cf. Durán Gudiol, HS, XII, 299-300.
34. Raymond's refusal occurred after Gregory IX, in Feb. 1234, had rejected the chapter's election of
Bishop Berenguer of Barcelona, and Cardinal Gil Torres had declined in the following June: VL, XIX,
180-1. The account of later developments in Morera Llauradó, Tarragona cristiana, II, 272-3, requires
revision. By Sept. 1234 Guillermo de Mongrí, ex-sacrist of Gerona, was archbishop-elect (Reg. Greg.
IX, 2103); but he too was uninterested, and preferred to return to Gerona and the enjoyment of what he
had been awarded for leading the assault on Ibiza (Chronicle of James of Aragon, 219-20). This was
granted in April 1236 (Reg. Greg. IX, 3093), not April 1238 (as Morera, II, appendix 21) or Aug. 1237
(as Fita, BRAH, XL, 339- 40). However, Guillermo continued as procurator of the church until Feb.
1237 when St Raymond was directed to take charge and make arrangements for election by the chapter
(Reg. Greg. IX, 3473-4). Two days before, on 5 Feb., Guillermo had been granted as spoil the property
of those who traded illicitly with the Moors, and it is significant that he arranged for the address of the
rescript to be amended to mark his definitive break with Tarragona: 'Petit quod scribatur sacniste
Gerundensi eodem modo quo Mc scribitur procuratoni electo Tarraconensi/ Supp(licat) sacrista
Gerundensis' (AE Gerona, caixa 6-16 Reg. Greg. IX, 3491). Burns assumes that Guillermos 'prelacy'
continued until 1238: I, 38.
35. Reg. Greg. IX, 4072.
36. Sanchis Sivera, La diócesis valentina, II, 364.
37. Fita dates Berenguer's appointment 28 Sept., the very day on which the city was taken, according to
Ibn al-Abbâr: BRAH, XL, 351 Ghedira, Al-Andalus, XXII, 33; Ubieto Arteta, Ligarzas, I, 161 ff.
38. In an indulgence which he granted to the church of S. Sepulcro, Calatayud: Sagarra, AST, V, 198;
Lafuente, ES, XLIX, 416. Sagarra suggests that the unusual form dei gratia (rather than dei gracia)
may mean that the seal, upon which he is so described, is a forgery. In the summer of 1968 the
document, unfortunately, could not be found in the Archivo Histórico Nacional. On no other occasion is
Pedro described as legate.
39. Namely, the bishops of Barcelona, Gerona, Vich, Urgel, Lérida, Tortosa and Huesca: a good turnout,
since the sees of Zaragoza and Pamplona were vacant, and the bishop of Valencia was in the throes
of organisation. There were only two culpable absentees: the bishops of Tarazona and Calahorra.
40. AC Gerona, Llibre Vert, fo. 300r-v; AC Barcelona, Libro de la Cadena, fo.46ra-b.
41. Tejada, VI, 30-1. Tejada also published a set of constitutions 'ex MS. Colbertino' which he took to
be John of Abbeville's constitutions as reissued in 1239; III, 367-73. But from internal evidence they
must be regarded as a later concoction, as was realised by Finke, who dismissed them as a
Mischmasch: Konzilienstudien, 68.
42. Ibid. cap. 7-8.
43. Ibid. VI, 32.
44. The record of which was published by Arco, BRABL,X-XI, 85-7, but with the date -- 'II non.
januarii anno domini MCCXXXoctavo' -- misinterpreted as 1238, before Pedro's promotion. Similarly,
idem, BRABL, IX, 227; Durán Gudiol, HS, XII, 301.