Editing Pope Honorius II (section)

===Establishment of the Templars and affairs in the East===
[[File:Institution de l Ordre du Temple 1128 par Granet.jpg|thumb|19th century depiction of Pope Honorius II granting official recognition to the [[Knights Templar]]]]
In 1119, a new religious order had been established by some French noblemen. Called the [[Knights Templar]], they were to protect Christian pilgrims entering the [[Holy Land]] and to defend the conquests of the [[Crusades]]. However, by the pontificate of Honorius II, they had not yet received any official sanction from the papacy.<ref>Mann, pg. 297</ref> To rectify this situation, some members of the order appeared before the [[Council of Troyes in 1129]], where the Council expressed its approval of the order and commissioned [[Bernard of Clairvaux]] to draw up the order's rules, which now included vows of [[poverty, chastity and obedience]].<ref>Mann, pg. 298</ref> The order and the rules were subsequently approved by Honorius.<ref>Mann, pg. 299</ref>

Honorius, as suzerain of the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]], re-confirmed the election of King [[Baldwin II of Jerusalem]] and established him as the royal patron of the Templars.<ref name="Mann, pg. 300">Mann, pg. 300</ref> Honorius tried to manage as best he could the rivalries of the different princes and high-ranking ecclesiastics that were destabilising the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.<ref name="Mann, pg. 300" /> Long-standing arguments over areas of jurisdiction between the Latin Patriarchs of [[Latin Patriarch of Antioch|Antioch]] and [[Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] were a constant source of irritation to Honorius.<ref name="Mann, pg. 300" /> Honorius supported the claims of [[William of Malines]], the new [[Archbishop of Tyre]] who claimed jurisdiction over some of the sees that had traditionally belonged to [[Bernard of Valence]], the Patriarch of Antioch.<ref name="Mann, pg. 301">Mann, pg. 301</ref> Bernard refused to give up his claims to the sees, and William travelled to Rome and presented his case before Honorius. The pope sent a legate back to Palestine with instructions that Bernard was to acquiesce and that the various bishops were to submit to William of Malines within forty days.<ref name="Mann, pg. 302">Mann, pg. 302</ref> Bernard managed to resist implementing Honorius's instructions, and soon Honorius was too ill to do anything about it.<ref name="Mann, pg. 302" />