Papal legate
Papal legate A papal Legate, from the Decretals of Boniface VIII (1294 to 1303). British Museum, 23923. A Papal Legate -from the Latin, authentic Roman ...
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Legate
Legate The word "legate" comes from the Latin legare ("to send ... several meanings, all related to representatives: A legate is a member of a diplomatic embassy. In ancient Rome, a legatus or legate was an official assistant to a general ... legionis was an overall legionary commander. A papal legate is a messenger from the ...
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Papal States
Papal States The Papal States (Gli Stati della Chiesa or Stati ... crown of Savoy (later a republic). The Papal States comprised those territories over which the ... plural is usually preferred, for the singular Papal State (equally correct since it was not ... assert spiritual supremacy. The seeds of the Papal States as a sovereign political entity ...
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Avignon
... King Louis VIII of France and the papal Legate, but capitulated after a three months' siege ... Avignon in another sense—the venality of the papal court caused the city to become infamously ... immediately succeeding the acquisition of Avignon as papal territory are well preserved. They were not ... which are on the interiors of the papal palace and of the churches of ...
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Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
... attempted to build up support in the Papal Curia, which was necessary to obtain the Papal Tiara. Around 1525, Wolsey used his powers as papal legate to dissolve abbeys in Oxford and Ipswich ... was not the case, and thus, the papal permission and the ensuing marriage were ...
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Pope Gregory VII
... the Roman Church. He acted as a legate in France, where he had to deal ... II who again employed Hildebrand as his legate to France. When Pope Stephen X was ... lost influence on the appointment to the papal throne: a proceeding which was dangerous to ... the law was enacted which transferred the papal election to the College of Cardinals, thus ... Hildebrandine statecraft. Election to the Papacy The papal seal of Pope Saint Gregory VII. ...
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Lorenzo Cardinal Campeggio
... leverage, and then to outmanoeuvre the new legate once he arrived, taking over the process ... Adrian, which proposed many radical reforms of papal bureaucracy. On 2 December 1524 he received ... 1525) and then on 9 January 1524 legate to the Diet of Nuremberg. During the ... fled to Orvieto, left him behind as papal legate in the city, just as the ...
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William of Modena
... Modena in 1221, was frequently appointed a legate, or papal ambassador by the popes Honorius III and ... the bishop of Modena, was sent as Papal legate to resolve differences that resulted from the ... from contention by placing it directly under papal control, appointing his own vice-legate ...
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Thomas Watson (bishop)
... Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor and also papal Legate, governing both State and Church at a ... The first cracks began appearing in Anglo-papal relations. The serious breach came in December 1529 when Henry challenged papal authority in what came to be known ... himself. But when he began to question papal competence to interpret Leviticus, to issue ...
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Pope Clement XII
... Albani's collection of antiquities for the papal gallery. Under Pope Benedict XIII (1724–30), the finances of the Papal States had been delivered into the hands ... May 17, 1706, retaining his services as papal treasurer. Styles of Pope Clement XII Reference ... Pope Clement XII were to restore the papal finances. He demanded restitution from the ministers ... fined and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Papal finances were also improved through reviving ...
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