A bishop complained about the spoilsSourced
A medieval bishop went to Rome.
His complaint: she kept the raid spoils.
Alice ruled Latakia and Jabala on the coast of present-day Syria and appears to have pursued her own military policy. In 1145, the bishop of Jabala complained at the papal court that she would not share the spoils of her raids with the Church. The account records his complaint, not the full dispute.
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