[196] Concil. Lateran. ann. 1102 (Harduin. VI. II. 1861-2).—Epist. Sigebert. (Mart. Ampl. Coll. I. 587-94).—Chron. Cassinens. IV. 42, 44. (Cf. Martene Ampl. Coll. I. 627.)—Hartzheim III. 258-65.—Martene Ampl. Coll. I. 659.
[197] Schumacher, Die Stedinger, Bremen, 1865, pp. 26-8.—Adam. Bremens. Gest. Pontif. Hammaburg. c. 203.—Chron. Erfordiens. ann. 1230 (Schannat Vindem. Litt. I. 93).—Chron. Rustedens. (Meibom. Rer. Germ. II. 101).—Albert. Stadens. Chron. ann. 1207 (Schilt. S. R. Germ. I. 299).—Joan. Otton. Cat. Archiepp. Bremens. ann. 1207 (Menken. S. R. Germ. II. 791).
[198] Albert. Stadens. Chron. ann. 1208-17, 1230.—Joan. Otton. Cat. Archiepp. Bremens. ann. 1211-20.—Anon. Saxon. Hist. Impp. ann. 1229 (Menken. III. 125).—Chron. Rustedens. (Meibom. II. 101).
There is considerable confusion among the authorities with regard to these events. I have followed the careful investigations of Schumacher, op. cit. pp. 219-23.
[199] Emonis Chron. ann. 1227, 1230 (Matthæi Analecta III. 128, 132).—Schumacher, p. 81.
[200] Hist. Diplom. Frid. II. T. IV. p. 497.—Albert. Stadens. Chron. ann. 1232, 1234.—Raynald. ann. 1232, No. 8.—Hartzheim III. 553.—Joan. Ottonis Cat. Archiepp. Bremens. ann. 1234.—Anon. Saxon. Hist. Imperator. ann. 1229.—Chron. Cornel. Zantfliet ann. 1233.—Epistt. Select. Sæcul. XIII. T. I. No. 539 (Pertz).
[201] Emonis Chron. ann. 1234 (Matthæi Analecta III. 139 sqq.).—Potthast No. 9399, 9400.—Epistt. Select. Sæcul. XIII. T. I. No. 572.—Meyeri Annal. Flandr. Lib. VIII. ann. 1233.—Chron. Cornel. Zantfliet ann. 1234.—Schumacher, pp. 116-17.—Chron. Erfordiens. ann. 1232.—Sächsische Weltchronik No. 376-8.—H. Wolteri Chron. Bremens. (Meibom. Rer. Germ. II. 58-9).—Chron. Rastedens. (Ib. II. 101).—Joan Otton. Cat. Archiepp. Bremens. ann. 1234.—Albert. Stadens. ann. 1234.—Anon. Saxon. Hist. Imperator. ann. 1229.
[202] Potthast No. 9777.—Hartzheim III. 554.
As the contemporary Abbot Emo of Wittewerum says, in describing the affair—“principalior causa fuit inobedientia, quæ scelere idololatriæ non est inferior” (Matthæi Analect. III. 142).
[203] Epistt. Selectt. Sæc. XIII. T. I. No. 720, 801.—Berger, Registres d’Innocent IV. No. 4181, 4265, 4269.—Ripoll I. 219, 225.—Vaissette, IV. 46.