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unusual facts about Papal Legate


Beaulieu-lès-Loches

The pope settled a dispute over the abbey's consecration with the Archbishop of Tours by himself sending a legate to consecrate it.


1210s in England

12 November - Marshal and the papal legate to England, Guala Bicchieri, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on the Magna Carta, in the King's name.

Accord of Winchester

Hubert, 'lector' of the Roman Church and papal legate of Pope Alexander II (the pope who had backed King William's invasion of England and had backed Lanfranc in the dispute)

Alexis-Armand Charost

Charost served as papal legate to the centennial celebrations in honor of Cardinal Charles Lavigerie in Algiers on August 25, 1925, to the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic University of Lille on March 14, 1927, and to the celebrations in honor of St. Thérèse de Lisieux in Lisieux on September 15, 1929.

Angelo Sabino

Sabino composed the poem at the request of Onofrio de Santa Croce, the papal legate who traveled to Liège in 1467 in an effort to negotiate a peace settlement.

Aurelio Saffi

He received an education in jurisprudence in Ferrara, but began political activity in his native city, protesting against the bad administration of the Papal legates.

Cesena

The latter, acting as the legate of Pope Gregory XI, directed the savage murder of between 2,500 and 5,000 civilians.

Christianity in the 13th century

In the second phase, crusader forces achieved a remarkable feat in the capture of Damietta in Egypt in 1219, but under the urgent insistence of the papal legate, Pelagius, they launched a foolhardy attack on Cairo in July 1221.

Council of Avignon

In 1080 a council was held under the presidency of Hugues de Dié, papal legate, in which Aicard, usurper of the See of Arles, was deposed, and Gibelin put in his place.

Efrem Forni

After serving as papal legate to the 1949 National Eucharistic Congress in Ecuador, Forni was named Nuncio to Belgium and Internuncio to Luxembourg on 9 November 1953.

Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti

Pellegrinetti later served as the papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Zagreb on July 30, 1930.

Francesco Angelo Rapaccioli

In July 1643 Rapaccioli was elevated to cardinal by Pope Urban VIII, was made papal legate to the Province of Viterbo and Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via Lata.

Giuseppe Beltrami

Beltrami was later named Nuncio to Colombia on November 15, 1945; during his tenure there, he served as the papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá on June 29, 1946.

Jacques de la Brosse

The French envoys, Jacques de la Brosse, with his colleague, the lawyer, Jacques Ménage, seigneur de Caigny, and the Papal Legate Marco Grimani, Patriarch of Aquileia, brought money and munitions to Dumbarton Castle on 6 October 1543, and unwittingly delivered them to Lennox.

Jean Lemoine

Jean Lemoine, Johannes Monachus (born 1250 at Crécy-en-Ponthieu, died 22 August 1313 at Avignon) was a French canon lawyer, Cardinal, bishop of Arras and papal legate.

Odo of Châteauroux

(born ca. 1190, Châteauroux – died on January 25, 1273 in Orvieto) was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher, papal legate and Cardinal.

Peter of Auvergne

In 1279, while the various nations of the University of Paris were quarrelling about the rectorship, Simon de Brion, papal legate, appointed Peter of Auvergne, to that office; in 1296 he was elected to it.

Pope Sylvester II

The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to Stephen I of Hungary by Sylvester in the year 1000 (hence the title 'Apostolic King') is noted by the 19th-century historian Lewis L. Kropf as a possible forgery of the 17th century.


see also

Alexander of Lincoln

Alexander was probably at the 1125 church council held at Westminster by the papal legate John of Crema, and shortly afterwards accompanied the legate on his journey back to Rome.

Cardinal de Tournon

Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon (1668-1710), Papal legate to India and China and Cardinal

Ehremar

In 1102 Dagobert of Pisa was deposed as Patriarch by the papal legate, Robert Cardinal of Paris, on charges of misconduct brought by the King of Jerusalem, Baldwin I.

Gollub War

A new, but futile, round of negotiations started in May 1419 in Gniewków with papal legate Bartholomew Capri, archbishop of Milan, as mediator.

Guala

Guala Bicchieri (c. 1150 – 1227), Italian diplomat and papal legate in England

Jean l'Héritier

A note written by the papal legate in Avignon indicated that L'Héritier was still alive in 1552.

Manuel Villegas Piñateli

In the book he talks about the travels by Jesuit father Antonio Possevino (born 1534, Ferrara, Italy; died February 26, 1611) acting as papal legate circa 1580.

Matthias Erzberger

In 1920, he published a memorandum endeavouring to justify his position during the war, and he followed it up with disclosures regarding the attitude of the Vatican in 1917 and the mission of the papal legate in Munich, Pacelli, to Berlin.

Onuphrius

:For the 15th-century papal legate, see Onofrio de Santa Croce.

Otto I, Duke of Bavaria

In the Dominium mundi conflict between emperor and pope culminating at the 1157 Reichstag of Besançon (Bisanz), fiery Otto could only be kept from smiting the papal legate Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli by the personal intervention of Frederick.

Pope John X

He sent a papal legate to a synod of bishops convoked by Conrad at Altheim in 916, with the result that the synod ordered Conrad’s opponents to present themselves before Pope John at Rome if they did not appear before another synod for judgement, under pain of excommunication.

Thomas Gallus

This monastery was set up under the initiative of Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, once a papal legate to England and France.

Thomas of Bayeux

Herbert de Losinga was appointed a papal legate in 1093 by Pope Urban II to investigate the matter of Thomas' profession of obedience to Lanfranc.

Ventura Salimbeni

The papal legate, cardinal Bonifazio Bevilacqua (1571–1627), who had commissioned these paintings, was so pleased that he invested Ventura Salimbeni with the Order of the Golden Spur, a very selective papal order.