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On 15 Feburary 1113 Pascal II granted the Protectio S. Petri to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, erected by Gerard, founder and superior of the Knights Hospitaller. This was the first and most authoritative ecclesiastical recognition of the Hospitaller and provides the bases for its transformation into a religious order and later a military one. With the privileges granted in Pie postulatio voluntatis, the Jerusalem-based hospital, its members and their dependents were subordinated exclusively to the Apostolic See while excommunication was decreed against those who dared to oppose the government of the institution, to restrict its freedom to operate or to deprive it of its goods. The papal concession also re-established the balance of power between territorial authorities in the heart of the young Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and introduced the Apostolic See as a player in those relations.
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