May 25th 1168, Benevento
Pope Alexander commissions two teams of monks to form two separate missions to effect a reconciliation between Becket and king Henry.
Each of these teams of monks were to bear three letters from the Pope for king Henry: one a letter of with their instructions and authorisation for the team, the second letter an admonitory [commonitory] one from the Pope to king Henry, the third a threatening [comminatory] one also from the Pope for king Henry; each was designed to be given in turn to Henry, in order to force the king to enter into discussion, and perhaps for him to come to some kind of acceptable agreement with Becket and the English Church. The monks could use whichever letter they saw was necessary to achieve their purpose. These letters were dated 22nd May 1168.
1st Commission
Basileus, prior of La Grande Chartreuse
Anthelme de Chignin, the Carthusian bishop of Bailey
Anthelme was to have gone on the commission, but his health did not permit him to undertake the long journeys involved. It seems that team 1's work never got off the ground, and was disbanded. The Pope set up the second commission soon afterwards.
2nd Commission
Simon, Prior of Mont-Dieu [Chartreuse Notre-Dame du Mont-Dieu]
Bernard de Corilo [de la Coudre], Prior of Grandmont [Grandmontine priory. The Bonshommes] They had been founded by Louis VII, in 1164
and
Englebert, Prior of Val-St-Pierre [Chartreuse du Val Saint-Pierre]
Pope's Letter appointing the Priors of Montdieu, and le Val de St. Pierre to be his legates:
Chrisitian Lupus (1682). Epistolae et vita divi Thomae Cantuariensis. Volume 2. Liber IV Epistola 1: Henricus Friex. pp. 627–.
MTB 424 Volume 6 pp 438-40. Benvenuto May 25th 1168
James Craigie Robertson (2012). Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury Volume 6 Cambridge University Press. pp. 438–. ISBN 978-1-108-04930-6.
Letter Ad vestre discretionis dated 25th May orders Simon and Bernard to visit king Henry within two months if he was in his Continental lands, and to present first, the admonitory [commonitorias] letter, and then the comminatorias letter, unless the first commission had already delivered theirs.
The admonitory letter [ad regie sublimatitis MTB 404]
The threatening letter [Quam paterne MTB 423]
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