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Peyroni. . . et nostram capellam et viginti quinque marchas argenti' AC Vich, 6-II-66. Pedro de Albalat
had all the goods of the mensa episcopalis as security, and the debt to him was still unsettled in Dec.
1250: Junyent, 257; AC Vich, 6-III-5.
133. VL, VII, 33; Diago, fo. 109v. He had succeeded Ponce de Vilamur as archdeacon Tremp on the
latter's promotion to Urgel in 1230 (AC Vich, 6-II-77; 6-II-84): a reward, doubtless, for having
withstood the efforts of the sacrist of Urgel to wean him from Ponce's party at the time of the election,
'cum si hoc faceret magnum commodum esset ipsius B. de Muro et posset semper facere quicquid
vellet in ecclesia Urgellensi' - as Berenguer de Mediano remembered having heard the sacrist promise:
AC Seo de Urgel, d.s.n. (cit. above, p. 56).
134. VL, XIII, 174.
135. VL, XIII, 175-7; Reg. Inn. IV, 1992. Matthew Paris got wind of the incident: Chronica Majora, IV,
578-9.
136. VL, XVI, 141-2, 308-l0.
137. AC Valencia, doc. 1318 (reg. Olmos, Pergaminos, 190). The second and third names on the shortlist,
it may be noted, were both those of Cistercians -- the abbots of Veruela and Benifazá.
138. 'Propter terre novitatem et sacerdotum raritatem' (Bishop Ferrer's words in a charter of Nov. 1242
to the Order of the Sepulchre), there was plenty for them to do there; and plenty was done by very
small numbers: AD Barcelona, Pergaminos de S. Ana, d.s.n; Burns, Crusader Kingdom, I, 174-5; idem,
Speculum, XXXV, 346, 350.
139. VL, XIII, 177-8; XIX, 311-12 ('ad instantiam et preces fratris Andreae de Albalato', Nov. 1248).
140. AC Barcelona, Libro de la Cadena, fo. 133ra-b.
141. Publ;. VL, XVII, 341-50; but lacking the later part of the second synod, the constitutions of which
are in AC Barcelona, Libro de la Cadena, fos. 132va-3ra, q.v. for the prohibition on prostitutes and on
the hiring of premises -- operatoria -- to them (fo.132vb).
142. VL, XVII, 346.
143. VL, XVI, 311. Whether this was done before or after Cardinal Gil's decision of 1251 is not clear.
144. AC Vich, cod. 147. fo. Ir-v (Feb. 1252).
145. Aguirre, V, 205 ff.
146. Berenguer had taken refuge at the Curia by Nov. 1246, to judge by the endorsements on papal
privileges in his favour which were renewed at that time (AE Gerona, 6/59; 6/60). He was neither
present nor represented at the provincial council of April 1247 (Tejada, VI, 44). He died at Naples, still
with the Curia, on 6: Feb. 1255, not 1254 -- as Eubel, Hierarchia, I, 261, following VL, XIII, 178 -- or
1264 -- as Burns, I, 22. Cf. his will, publ.(and misdated) in ES, XLIV, 21, 277-9, and the Libri
Anniversariorum of the Dominican convent of Gerona (which he founded) and of Barcelona: Garganta,
AIEC, VI, 143 Alcalde, Homenatge a Antoni Rubió i Lluch,. II, 529. The set of synodal statutes which
are attributed to him by Pontich, Synodales gerundenses, 145-9 Villanueva, RAH, MS. 62 (9-19-4), sin.
pag; and Merino and La Canal, ES, XLIV, 18-20, were in fact published by his successor, apparently
for the first time, in Oct. 1257: Mansi, XXIII, 927-31.
147. ES, XLVIII, 309.
148. 18 Oct. 1242 being a Saturday: AC Barcelona, Libro de la Cadena, fo. 133ra.
149. Summa, fo. 130ra.