The ecclesiastics included archbishops, bishops and certain abbots. Pope Benedict appointed four ecclesiastics as his legates to the khan's court. The pope replied by appointing four ecclesiastics as his legates to the khan's court. The knights, ecclesiastics and civic dignitaries on its altar tombs became familiar to him. During the 3rd and 4th centuries many ecclesiastics and monks wrote in Coptic. In the 12th century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began. Indeed, Childeric I had granted immunities to ecclesiastics. Emeritus ecclesiastics are counted among the latter. Most were scholars or ecclesiastics, and they wrote and sang in Latin. At the demand of the Church hierarchy the government canceled the tsar's jurisdiction over ecclesiastics. The pellegrina is a cape-like item of clerical dress worn by some Catholic ecclesiastics. At the demand of the church hierarchy, the government lost its jurisdiction over ecclesiastics. Both are seated, as was customary in portraits presenting important ecclesiastics. Constantine's death in 952 is recorded by the Irish annals, who enter it among ecclesiastics. All other ecclesiastics were to contribute the twentieth part.