Defn: Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power.
Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution.
Curiously enough, Walsh, who was appointed by Pole in virtue of his legatine authority, did not receive a Papal provision till 1564, some time after Elizabeth had expelled him from his see.
It is remarkable that Wilson, who does not seem ever to have resided in his see, fully acknowledged that the Cardinal's legatine authority extended to Ireland.
Gillebert resigned both the legatine authority and his own bishopric before his death, which took place in or about 1145.
On the night of the 23rd, however, Pate returned from the court with a message that the legatine insignia might be displayed.
English sovereigns to have a legate perpetually resident in the person of the Archbishop of Canterbury; and from immemorial time there was no record of any archbishop to whom the legatine character had not attached as of right.
Even the mild and aged Warham felt his lash, and was threatened with Præmunire for having wounded Wolsey's legatine authority by calling a council at Lambeth.
If your legacy (legatine authority) is a cloak apud homines, it is not apud Deum.
Wolsey had used his legatine authority to extort money from monasteries as the price of their immunity from his visitatorial powers.
The Queen was made to write to Charles that it was absolutely essential to her case that the brief should be produced before the legatine Court in England.
At Windsor[442] Wolsey constituted his legatine court to bind the contracting parties by oaths enforced by ecclesiastical censures.
Henry and Wolsey to relinquish their suit about the brief, and push on the proceedings of the legatine Court, so as to get some decision before the case was called to Rome.
The Court never met again; and except during the transient reaction, under Mary, it was the lastlegatine Court ever held in England.
His animosity however, now aroused against England, was not easy to remove: and it was an additional source of grief to Mary and a great vexation to the Cardinal that Paul deprived him of his Legatine authority.
He sought also to diminish the abuses connected with the ecclesiastical courts by the establishment of a Legatine Court of his own.
Footnote: The Pope in that case must either have decided the case himself, or have given full powers to a Legatine Court to act without appeal.
He had already struck at Wolsey because, urged thereto by himself, the Cardinal had obtained and exercised legatine powers contrary to the Statutes of Praemunire.
The first scheme was that he should hold a Legatine Court before which the King should be cited for living in an unlawful union with his brother's widow.
In the meantime, Ridley and Latimer were condemned under legatine authority, and were burnt at Oxford in November.
Meanwhile he concealed his disgust; and after congratulating the new pope on his promotion, applied for a continuation of the legatine powers which the two former popes had conferred upon him.
Rome, particularly one investing him with the legatine power, which he had exercised with very extensive authority.
The first article of the charge against the cardinal is his procuring the legatine power, which, however, as it was certainly done with the king's consent and permission, could be nowise criminal.
Wolsey made some attempts to get his legatine power extended over France, and even over Germany; but finding his efforts fruitless, he was obliged, though with great reluctance, to desist from these ambitious enterprises.
From the close of the legatine court Henry would see him no more, and his favorite, Stephen Gardiner, who had become chief secretary of state, succeeded him in the King's confidence.
Wolsey's proposal for leaving the matter to a legatine court found better favor; but when the commission reached England it was found to be "of no effect or authority.
The mischievous results of the appointment of Archbishop William as legate were apparent at his death; for Innocent granted a legatine commission, not to his successor, Theobald, but to Henry of Winchester.
Honorius silenced his complaints by giving him a legatine commission, a measure which, while gratifying William personally, lessened the inherent dignity of his see and the independence of the Church.
His request was refused, and his legatine commission expired in 1143, with the death of Innocent, the Pope who had granted it.
For the next three hundred years the Church was almost wholly free from the direct control of legatine visits.
On Richard's return Hubert placed the crown on his head at his second coronation at Winchester, and the king obtained the legatine commission for him.
From this date the legatine authority of the archbishops of Canterbury was always recognized at Rome, though legates a latere were still sent over to England from time to time on special errands.
That year, however, Alexander returned to Rome, and felt himself strong enough to send the exiled primate a legatine commission.
Accordingly the archbishop, who himself had a legatine commission, went to Rome, and obtained a promise from the Pope that no other legate should be appointed as long as he lived, and Pandulf soon afterwards left England.
National councils of the Church, though held on the occasion of legatine visits, consisted only of bishops, and had fallen into disuse; and the clerical grants were made by the convocations of the two provinces separately.
He received a legatine commission, and became sole justiciar.
Early in the reign a Burgundian archbishop landed here without invitation, claiming legatine authority over the whole kingdom.
By insisting upon all the formalities of law he took care to delay the proceedings till the 23rd July, when he announced that the legatine court should follow the rules of the Roman court, and should, therefore, adjourn to October.
Henry, having failed to obtain a favourable verdict from thelegatine commission, determined to frighten the Pope into compliance with his wishes by showing him that behind the King of England stood the English Parliament.
He secured a /de facto/ headship of the Church in England when he succeeded in getting Cardinal Wolsey invested with permanent legatine powers.
The fanatic John of Litomysl was armed with legatine powers, and despatched with letters to the lords of Hazemburg, John of Michaelsburg, and other barons known as opponents of the popular cause.
When he accepted the legatine authority, the cardinal took care to obtain a patent under the Great Seal, authorising the exercise of this foreign power.
Pace remained at Rome to congratulate the new Pontiff on his arrival, and solicit a renewal of his legatine authority.
Wolsey, to make sure of them, summoned the convocations of the two provinces, which had met in their usual manner, by his legatine authority, to assemble in a national synod in Westminster Abbey.
On the strength of this, the English ambassadors congratulated Julius on his elevation, and solicited the continuance of the legatine commission to Wolsey.
His hopes of the see of Canterbury were disappointed, but he obtained in 1139 a legatinecommission which gave him a higher rank than the primate.
The expiration of his legatine commission of 1144 deprived him of much of his power.
And for the abuses of evil priests that have sprung up, my Lord Cardinal sought the Legatine Commission from our holy father at Rome to deal with them.
From the two legatine councils of 1070, at Winchester and Windsor, a series begins of great national synods, meeting at intervals to the end of the reign.
On this understanding Cardinal Pole was allowed to exercise his legatine power, and the King and Queen were entreated to intercede that the absolution might be bestowed.
The whole clergy was so far involved in Wolsey's guilt that it had supported his Legatine Powers, and so had shared in the violation of the statutes.
But it was this very man whom Paul IV now deprived of his legatine power, on which much of his consequence rested, and transferred it to a Franciscan monk.
Towards the end of =1530= Henry charged the whole clergy of England with a breach of the Statute of Praemunire by their submission to Wolsey's legatine authority.
No king ever felt the importance of popularity like Henry, and the compassion which had been freely given to Catharine by the crowd, on her appearance in the Legatine Court, made it necessary for him to find support elsewhere.
In exercise of yourlegatine authority," pursued the king, "you have given away benefices contrary to our crown and dignity, for the which you are in danger of forfeiture of your lands and goods.
On the other hand, it is quite clear that Becket reckoned on the legatine power of William of Sens and the terror of the English prelates, who had refused to attend a council in London to reject the Interdict.
He endeavored to obtain a legatine commission over the whole realm of England for Becket's enemy, Roger Archbishop of York, and a recommendation from the Pope to Becket to observe the "customs" of the realm.
Rumors spread that William was to return invested in full legatine powers--William, not only Becket's friend, but the head of the French hierarchy.
The first object was to obtain the legatine power for Archbishop Theobald; the second tended, more than almost all measures, to secure the throne of England to the house of Plantagenet.
He determined to appoint a new legatine commission, not now rapacious cardinals and avowed partisans of Henry.
Quite in the spirit of her father, Mary caused the nuncio who brought this decision to England to be arrested, and interdicted Peto from accepting the legatine office.
We may even suspect that an attempt had been made to invade it, which Gilbert stoutly resisted, relying on his legatine authority.
It was after he became legate, and no doubt in virtue of his legatine commission, that he issued a treatise which may be regarded as the programme of the Reformation.
Gilbert, now old and infirm, had resigned the see of Limerick, and with it his legatine commission.
Bishop of Winchester was deprived of the legatine commission, which was conferred on Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, the enemy and rival of the former legate.
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