Папа Николай IV и българите
Pope Nicholas IV and the Bulgarians

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the Bulgarian church policy of the late 13th c. and the place of Girolamo d’Ascoli (Pope Nicholas IV) in it as envoy of the Curia Romana to the Balkans in the 70s of the 13th c., on the eve of the Second Council of Lyons and the time of his pontificate. On the basis of numerous source data and documents it is endeavoured to present in detail the Bulgarian stand and to follow up its evolution during the years immediately after the conclusion of the Lyons Union. Four messages connected with Girolamo d’Ascoli are included in the paper: of 1274 issued by the office of Pope Gregory X, dedicated to the mission in Constantinople, and the other three, issued by office of Pope Nicholas IV himself: to the Serbian Queen Helena, to the Bulgarian King Georgi I Terter and the Bulgarian Patriarch Yoakim III. The texts are not unknown to science but they are presented for the first time in a critical edition (the first message), with corrected Latin original, full Bulgarian translation and abundant comments and codicological notes.

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