Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "papal legate"

  • When Gandia died and Cesare was accused of having murdered him, the motive advanced was that Cesare, a papal legate, resented a brother who was a duke.

  • On the following day the army set out, accompanied by the Cardinal de Luna as papal legate a latere, and within a month ten Orsini strongholds had surrendered.

  • Now, Cesare, being a duke, resents a cousin's being a papal legate.

  • Yet not long afterwards the Bishop of Tournay, as papal legate, assembled the prelates of Languedoc and formally cited Raymond before King Louis to answer for his slackness in carrying out the provisions of the treaty.

  • Two missions as papal legate, one to Italy and the other to France, and two bishoprics, those of Tuy and Lodeve, attest the value set on his services by John XXII.

  • The Cardinal of Santa Sabina, while visiting various courts in the capacity of papal legate, had had occasion to collect large sums.

  • There were long delays in England, whither a papal legate, Campeggio, had been sent to investigate and determine the cause.

  • He was deprived of the office of papal legate.

  • In 1152 a papal legate established a hierarchy in Norway, which interfered in the struggle.

  • This obtained for him not only his position as cardinal-bishop of Ostia, but also his frequent employment, as papal legate in serious negotiations.

  • Among the crowds of preachers of the gospel, mostly Dominicans, besides Bishop Christian and the noble papal legate William, bishop of Modena, the Polish Dominican Hyacinth, who died in A.

  • Boniface had immediately submitted a report, answered by sending him the archiepiscopal pallium with a commission as papal legate in the German lands to found bishoprics and consecrate bishops.

  • On that very day thousands enlisted, with Adhemar, bishop of Puy, papal legate, at their head, and had the red cross marked on their right shoulders.

  • At Easter time in 1125, probably a few days before the date of the papal bull of interdict which compelled the dissolution of the marriage of William and Sibyl, a papal legate, John of Crema, landed in England.

  • He had already been in England eight years earlier as a papal legate, and he would bring to this council ideas derived from local observation, as well as tried diplomatic skill.

  • There was no unity; each town was governed separately by a papal legate, by a powerful baron, or by a communal government.

  • Dominican astrologer who accompanied the Archbishop of Ravenna when as papal legate he led the crusade against Ezzelin da Romano.

  • In 1452 another effort was made by Archbishop d'Estouteville of Rouen, but though he was a cardinal and a papal legate, and though he adjoined in the matter Jean Brehal, Inquisitor of France, he could do nothing beyond taking some testimony.

  • He lived splendidly, we are told, with many horses, lavishing money like a cardinal or papal legate, till the brethren grew tired and elected Matteo of Ancona as his successor.

  • In 1457 the Council of Avignon, presided over by a papal legate, the Cardinal de Foix, who was a Franciscan, confirmed the decree of Basle, and ordered under pain of excommunication that no one should teach to the contrary.

  • Provincial synods had now lost almost all their importance, and were rarely held, and then for the most part under the presidency of a papal legate.

  • No papal legate was to enter the land without the king's sanction.

  • This prelate, a very learned man, was the representative of Sten Sture in Rome, returning to his native land as a papal legate.

  • Cardinal Cajetan, papal legate in Germany, to hold an inquiry (23 Aug.

  • He was a young man of remarkable ability both as a student and as a preacher, and was fortunate enough to attract the notice of a papal legate, through whose influence a pension was assigned to him to enable him to prosecute his studies.

  • He had been a distinguished law student of Bologna and Padua, a papal legate in Spain, and under Clement VIII.

  • The case was carried once more to Rome, and de Tournon was despatched as papal legate to decide the case.

  • Some time in the year 1121 a papal legate, Conon, Bishop of Praeneste, came to Rheims.

  • So ended the holy Council of Soissons, Provincial Synod of the arch-diocese of Rheims, held under the ægis of a papal legate, in the year of grace 1121.

  • It sat more lightly on their shoulders than the abbot anticipated, and he proceeded to call in the help of a papal legate.

  • Protestantism made no head in the country, and in 1579 a Papal Legate, Nicholas Sanders, came over to organize the tribes to unite in defence of the old religion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "papal legate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arms against the government; but upon; election district; first editions; haue heard; high pressure; lucky enough; melancholy tone; modern medicine; national pride; officers killed; papal authority; papal bull; papal infallibility; papal legate; papal power; papal supremacy; prepared from; rolled oats; shall meet; she laughed; still another; story houses; until about; walled cells; whose duty