45 The Patriarch of Constantinople in the Name of the Lord.

The distinguished reputation of your renowned apostleship which has been acclaimed in many different regions even travelled through Germany to us, accordingly this compelled us to respect your authority and to prevail upon your integrity confidently for our entreaties. And therefore entrusting our most genuine devotion to your most prosperous crown we extend greetings, as we entreat those worthy of the people in manifold ways, supplicating we pray to God who established you the fathers to assist many and benefit all. It has reached us by chance that our very young nephew has been taken to the imperial city from a mother cheated and there he remains an orphan away from home at the court of the most devout Augustus in accordance with his order. As is proper may you fitly work for his return to the fatherland or may he be turned over to his relations as he is unsuited for compelled wandering. As the Vicar of Christ your duty lies in his freedom and through lasting peace fruitful calm will endure without end between our kingdom and the Roman state.

AD PATRIARCAM CONSTANTINOPOLITANUM DE DOMNI NOMEN.

Gloriosi apostolatus vestri precellens opino, quae sic

loca singula percurrens implevit, ut etiam ad nos Germaniam

peragraret, ita nos conpulit devinctos vestrae fieri gratiae,

ut optemus devoti, vestram sanctitatem pro nobis subplicibus

fiducialiter exorare. Quapropter beatissim.ae coronae vestrae

devotionem nostram sincerissimae commendantes ac, salutations

depensa, ut pro nobis redemptori gentium supplicate dignemini,

multipliciter obsecrantes, praecamur per Deum, qui vos

ad multorum remedium patres esse constituit omnium dignitatum,

ut, quia casu contigit, nepotem nostrum parvulum duci in

urbem regiam, de matrem deceptum, et ibidem detineri tam

peregrinum quam orfanum, apud piissimum patrem nostrum augustum

de eius absolutione, sicut est vestrae consuetudinis, dignabiliter

laboretis, quatenus, dum ipse, vobis obtinentibus,

meruerit patriae vel parentibus reddi, peregrinationis

necessitatibus absolutus, ad liberandum obnoxium facias, quod

Christi vecarius, et per hoc inter nos et Romanum rempublicam

sit diuturnae pacis et quietis fructus, non terminus.

Finit.