Letter CCCL. To THE SAME. He asks for the Pope's blessing for one of his relatives. (Circa A.D. 1141)
The young man who will bring you this letter is reputed to be a brave and active soldier, and in order that he may perfect himself in actual warfare he is proceeding to Jerusalem. I, your son, entreat you at his request that in this good work which he is beginning he may have the benefit and the honour of your benediction and prayers. He is my relative, and, as the Prophet has said, I ought to take interest in those who are of my own flesh (Is. Iviii. 7).
Juvenis iste magnanimus (ut aiunt) et strenuus in opere militari, ut meliorem militet militiam, proficiscitur Jerusalem. Rogat puer vester rogatus ab ipso, ut in bono opere quod coepit, vestram mereatur percipere consolationem, sed favorem, sed orationem, sed benedictionem. Propinquus noster est, et carnem meam juxta prophetam, non debui despexisse.
