The Deeds of Innocent III

The curia's own account of the pontificate's first decade, with letters copied in. For 1200 it covers the recovery of the papal patrimony and the March, the war in Sicily against Markward of Annweiler for the boy king Frederick, the pope's handling of the German double election, the Ingeborg affair and the French interdict, the Fourth Crusade's preaching, and the pope's Roman building and charity. Written to justify Innocent, and silent on failures, but with documents not in the registers.

About this source

Title: Gesta Innocentii III
Author: Anonymous (a curial official, perhaps Peter of Benevento)
Written: about 1208 to 1209
Language: Latin
Covers: 1198 to 1208
Kind: Biography

Authorship and exact date are disputed. The Documenta Catholica Omnia site could not be fetched directly in this pass; the link is the one given by Wikipedia.

Where to read it

Editions

J.-P. Migne (ed.), Gesta Innocentii III, in Patrologia Latina 214 (1855), cols xvii to ccxxviii; via the Documenta Catholica Omnia page for Innocent III
D. R. Gress-Wright (ed.), The Gesta Innocentii III: text, introduction and commentary (Bryn Mawr dissertation, 1981), not free (not freely online)
J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina 214 (Paris 1855), cols xvii to ccxxviii; no verified free copy located (not freely online)
D. Gress-Wright (ed.), The Gesta Innocentii III: text, introduction and commentary (PhD thesis, Bryn Mawr 1981); not free (not freely online)

Translations

J. M. Powell, The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author (2004), English, not free (not freely online)
J. M. Powell (trans.), The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author (Washington 2004), English; under copyright (not freely online)

Read it online

Documenta Catholica Omnia page for Innocent III