Letters375 Letter CCCLXXV. To ida, Countess of Nevers (A.D. 1148)
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.
To his beloved daughter in Christ, the Countess of NEVERS, Brother BERNARD, called Abbot of Clairvaux, wishes health, and assures her of his prayers.
Q LETTER CCCLXXVI.
The venerable Abbot 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 William 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.
Dilectae in Christo filiae Nivernensi comitissae, frater BERNARDUS Clarae-Vallensis vocatus abbas, salutem et orationes.
Conqueritur venerabilis abbas Vizeliacensis, quod vos et clientes vestri mercatores et caeteros Vizeliacum volentes ire prohibetis: quod quia Guillelmus comes bonae memoriae, et filius ejus in praesentia domini Autissiodorensis et nostra penitus refutavit, tanquam impium et iniquum; monemus et rogamus, ne id deinceps ullo modo faciatis. Timemus enim, si talia facere coeperitis, ne forte et vobis hic, et viro vestro, ubi ipse est, plurimum possint obesse, quod omnino nollemus. Credite ergo nobis, et omnino desistite a malitia hac.