At that diet legates of the pope arrived, saying that they came on a mission that would redound greatly to the honor and advantage of the empire.
Therefore we were greatly astonished to learn that you were incensed at us and that you had treated with such scant respect the legates .
If it becomes necessary or expedient for the legates to separate and go to different regions, each one of them shall be received and obeyed as our representative.
Innocent III Commands all in Authority to aid his Legates in Destroying Heresy, 1198.
It had not been uncommon for the popes to send their legates on missions to various parts of the world, but Gregory VII made a far more frequent use of them than any of his predecessors.
Treat them kindly out of reverence for St. Peter, whoselegates they are; listen to them and believe without hesitation whatever they may say on our behalf.
It has not been usual for papal legates to visit your land; this, however, is partly the fault of your forefathers, as well as of our predecessors, for the dukes of Bohemia should have requested the pope to send them legates.
The Roman church shall have the right to send its legates into Apulia and its dependencies and into Calabria, but those legates shall not waste the possessions of the churches to which they are sent.
The legates also pronounced a sentence of excommunication on the emperor which should go into effect at once if the emperor should fail to observe any of the above stipulations.
Legates from the Pope had reached Normandy, with powers only after full submission to absolve the king; unless Henry quickly met them, all his lands would be laid under interdict.
In the summer of 1169 two legates were sent to settle the dispute, of whom one was pledged to the king and the other to the archbishop.
Orders were given to allow no traveller, who might intend evil against the king, to cross into England; and before the legates could arrive in Normandy Henry himself was safe beyond the sea.
When papal legates arrived in 1167 with proposals for mediation, he bluntly expressed his hope that he might never see any more cardinals.
Once more legates were appointed to bring about a settlement between the two kings at La Ferte Bernardon the 4th of June.
Papal legates arrived in England at Christmas 1186 to crown the King of Ireland with the crown of peacocks' feathers woven with gold which the Pope himself had sent.
Without delay, the legates prepared to bestow the archbishopric of Canterbury on Lanfranc of Pavia, one of the greatest scholars and most remarkable men of the century in which he lived.
After being received by William with great honour, and magnificently entertained in the castle of Winchester, the legates convoked a great assembly of Norman priests and warriors, and summoned to it the Anglo-Saxon prelates and abbots.
Hardly had he ascended the pontifical throne when he sent legates to southern France, and wrote urgent letters full of apostolic zeal to the Archbishops of Auch and Aix, the Bishop of Narbonne, and the King of France.
The legates of Pope Honorius were empowered to introduce the canonical and imperial legislation into the statutes of the Italian cities, which hitherto had not been at all anxious to take any measures whatever against heretics.
The Popes, as the rulers of Christendom, tried to make up for the indifference of the bishops by sending their legates to hunt for the Cathari in their most hidden retreats.
A Swedish archbishop, returning from Rome, had been seized by robbers, and as Frederick had not punished the offenders Adrian sent two legates to remonstrate.
The Legates meanwhile established a daily post of couriers, who carried the minutest details of the Council to the Vatican.
All ranks in the social hierarchy, except the Pope, his Legates and Nuncios, and the bishops, were amenable to this Inquisition.
In this fashion, by means of his standing majority, the exclusive right of his Legates to propose resolutions, and the previous reference of these resolutions to himself, Pius was enabled to direct the affairs of the Council.
He complained roundly of the evils caused by the reference of all resolutions to Rome, by the exclusive rights of the Legates to propose decrees, and by the intrigues of the Italian majority in the Synod.
Papal Legates with plenipotentiary authority were sent to Languedoc, and decrees were issued against the heretics, in which the Inquisition was rather implied than directly named; nor can I find that S.
Cardinal Lorraine had arrived with his French bishops[44]; and the Papal Legates found themselves involved at once in intricate disputes on questions touching the Huguenots and the interests of the Gallican Church.
It came to be understood that while the Pope would allow no further freedom to the bishops, he was well disposed to let his Legates admit the envoys of the Catholic powers into their counsels.
His Legates received orders to invent some decent excuse for a step which would certainly be resisted, since Bologna was a city altogether subject to the Holy See.
Spies were introduced into the opposite camps, who kept the Legates informed of what the French or Spaniards deliberated in their private meetings.
The emperor promises to entertain with due reverence their legates and nuncios; to assign a palace for their residence, and a temple for their worship; and to deliver his second son Manuel as the hostage of his faith.
After this, the Pope came to Gisors, to which place the King went vnto him; and desired that he would not send any Legates into England, except the King should so require.
In so much as one of the Popes Legates in France did excommunicate all the Priests of Normandy, because they would not come to his Synode.
The Liber Pontificalis, the Roman Church history of the time, states that the pope's legates gave assent to the decrees, which is unlikely.
He was a man of good education, of sufficiently liberal views, and with a rather large experience acquired as a prominent official in Rome and as one of the legates at the Council of Trent.
Some portions of this were considered by the legates to be prejudicial to the rights of the Holy See, and were therefore rejected by them after consultation with the Pope.
The legates were anxious that the dogmatic issues raised by the Lutherans should be dealt with at once, while the Emperor was strongly in favour of beginning with a comprehensive scheme of reform.
In face of this counter-move the legateswere firm but conciliatory.
The legates accompanied by most of the bishops departed immediately, while the bishops who supported the Emperor remained at Trent.
The Emperor put forward a far-reaching scheme of reform parts of which it was entirely impossible for the legates to accept.
There were then present in addition to the legates and theologians only four archbishops, twenty-one bishops, and five generals of religious orders.
When the legates arrived to open the council they found so few bishops in attendance that nothing could be done except to prepare the subjects that should be submitted for discussion.
When the papal legates attended at the time fixed for the opening of the council they found it necessary owing to the small numbers present to adjourn it at first till the 1st September, and later till the 11th October.
The action of the papal legates in proposing that the interference of Catholic rulers in ecclesiastical affairs should be considered and if necessary reformed did not tend to delay the dissolution.
At the same time the Pope wrote a letter pointing out that it was only reasonable that the Head of the Church, not being present at the council, should be consulted by his legates in all important matters that might arise.
From the very beginning the legates found themselves in a very difficult position owing to the spirit of hostility against the Holy See manifested by some of the bishops and representatives of the civil powers.
In this form the canon was cited by the Roman legates at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
In 879, another great council assembled at Constantinople, in which Photius, already restored, is acknowledged as true patriarch by the legates of Pope John VIII.
The legates from the bishop of Rome were on the left hand, and the patriarchs of Constantinople and Antioch on the right.
There he found three legates who had been sent from the pope, and supported by their presence he at last took up the affairs of the English Church.
Two of the legateswere cardinals, then a relatively less exalted rank in the Church than later, but making plain the direct support of the pope.
The occupation of Britanny by which it was brought under Henry's direct control and a short and inconclusive war with the king of France took up the interval until the legates reached Normandy in October, 1167.
Henry returned to England at Easter time, and went on almost at once to meet the papal legates in Normandy.
Three legates of the pope were at Winchester, and there a council was summoned to meet them.
Before the council met, the papal sanction of the Conquest was publicly proclaimed, when the cardinal legates placed the crown on the king's head at the Easter festival.
He promised to send legates to Henry to settle the whole question with him.
The pope was even compelled to recognize the right of the English king to decide when papal legates should be received in the kingdom.
It was agreed that in the month of July a general, and, more properly speaking, a European conference should meet at Arras, that the legates of Pope Eugenius IV.
All the lords who happened to be in the city went to meet him at a league's distance, except the cardinal-legates of the pope, who confined themselves to sending their people.
The Pope's legatesescaped as they could; and the Bishops were compelled to sign a blank paper, which was afterwards filled up with the condemnation of Flavian.
Presently, a charge was brought forward against Dioscorus, that, though the Legates had presented a letter from the Pope to the Council, it had not been read.
Of these, only four came from the West, two Roman Legates and two Africans.
His legates took precedence after Dioscorus and before the other Patriarchs.
Notwithstanding, the Pope's Legates gained their point through the support of the Emperor Marcian, who had succeeded Theodosius.
When Leo died, Hildebrand was one of the three legates sent to consult the Emperor as to the choice of another Pope.
There could be no doubt on which side justice lay, and the legates were not, as in the case of Henry and Catherine, on the side of the monarch.
The Pope had also attempted to do what he could, once by a committee of four Cardinals, constantly by Legates sent to guide and protect the ever-troubled city.
Even after the election at Forchheim of Rudolf of Suabia as king in the place of Henry, he continued to urge upon the legates whom he had sent to that assembly the necessity for his presence.
The remonstrances which the Pope continued to make by his own voice and those of his legates as long as any remonstrance was possible, were however regarded by neither party.
Then at last the terrified king submitted to the authority of the Pope; he received the legates of Innocent in a changed spirit, with the servility of a coward.
The kings of England frequently resided in the Temple, and so also did the haughty legates of the Roman pontiffs, who there made contributions in the name of the pope upon the English bishoprics.
Within its venerable walls they at different periods entertained king John, king Henry the Third, the haughty legates of the Roman pontiffs, and the ambassadors of foreign powers.
In response to the imperial summons, five to six hundred bishops, all Eastern, except the Roman legates and two Africans, assembled in Chalcedon on the 8th of October 451.
The bishop of Rome claimed for his legates the right to preside, and insisted that any act that failed to receive their approval would be invalid.
At the moment the advancing columns halted, the legates of Gregory appeared in front of the army and imparted the Papal benediction to all who had taken up arms against the enemy of the Church and of the liberties of Germany.
The chiefs directed all their efforts to induce the legates to sanction the election of a king, and confirm their choice.
No sooner had the legatesdelivered their instructions, than deliberations were virtually begun.
Moved by these passionate representations, and, perhaps, expecting to please the Sovereign Pontiff, the legates yielded, and confirmed the election of Rodolph.
The legates were to tell the king that his crimes were so numerous, so horrible, and so notorious, that he merited not only excommunication but the permanent loss of all his royal honors.
He dispatched legates throughout Europe, and from this time on these legates became a powerful instrument of government.
But he evidently had little expectation that mere expostulation would have any effect upon Henry, for he gave his legates instructions to use threats, if necessary, which were bound to produce either complete subjection or out-and-out revolt.
The occupants of certain sees by a kind of prescription became legates without special appointment, legati nati, as in the case of Canterbury.
After legates came special delegates appointed by the pope to hear a particular cause.
Sometimes they were given to local Church officials, but were usually held by the legates or commissaries sent from Rome.
Learn from this what they have in mind when they send out legates to collect money or use against the Turks.
The court of the two legates was opened at Blackfriars in =1529=.
The Regent of France, on his side, indirectly made overtures for peace; the Abbot of Cluny, and the General of the Dominicans, legates of Pope Innocent VI.
Raymond, affrighted, prevailed on the two legates to repair to St. Gilles, and he there renewed his promises to them; but he always sought for and found on the morrow some excuse for retarding the execution of them.
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