Letter CCCLXXV. To Ida, Countess of Nevers

(A.D. 1148.)

He complains to the Countess that some of her vassals had done injury to the monks at Vezelay.¹

To his beloved daughter in Christ, the Countess of NEVERS, Brother BERNARD, called Abbot of Clairvaux, wishes health, and assures her of his prayers.

The venerable Abbot² of Vezelay complains that your vassals, and you yourself, prevent merchants and other persons from coming to Vezelay as they desire to do. Now since Count William³ of happy memory freely acknowledged before the Bishop of Auxerre, and in my presence, that to act thus was unjust and wrong; let me advise and entreat that you should not act in this way any more. For I fear if you should continue such acts that you may do much injury both to yourself in this world, and to your husband where he is, which I should greatly regret. Follow, then, my advice, and cause all these acts of injustice to cease.

Footnotes

1. Formerly No. 390; the former No. 375 is now No. 316. ↩

2. This was Pontius. ↩

3. This William had retired to the Chartreuse, as we have already mentioned; his son William had succeeded him in 1147. ↩