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POPE INNOCENT IV Document (Litterae cum serico) bearing the Papal Bull, issued by Pope Innocent IV, granting privileges to the abbess & Cistercian convent of "Aweria", in diocese of Liege; 16 March 1244
15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
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POPE INNOCENT IV
Document (Litterae cum serico) bearing the Papal Bull, issued by Pope Innocent IV, granting privileges to the abbess & Cistercian convent of "Aweria", in diocese of Liege; with historiated name of the Pope in the first line and decorated initial letters thereafter; with the original lead bull, bearing the heads of Saints Paul and Peter and "Inno/ cenntius/ PP IIII" on the obverse (detached with trace of suspension ribbon), on one sheet of vellum, browned and slightly brittle, 195 x 230mm., 16 March 1244
Footnotes
This handsome document issued by Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi, 1244 – 1254) appears to mark the foundation in 1244 of the Cistercian Abbaye de la Paix-Dieu d'Amay (that same day, coincidentally, saw the burning of over 200 Cathars after the fall of the Château de Montségur).





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