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unusual facts about tithe


Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young adult fantasy novel by Holly Black, author of the Spiderwick Chronicles.


Gœrlingen

By the thirteenth century Gœrlingen (albeit not spelled according to twenty-first century spelling) was numbered among the parishes under the archpriests of Bockenheim, the village being under the county of Sarrewerden to which the tithe was paid.

Hallwil

The tithes, originally collected by Säckingen Abbey, later went to the Lords of Hallwyl who then gave them as a gift to the church of Seengen.

Herman Wirth

Along with Wirth's disciple and SPD member Roland Häke, in 1979 Willy Brandt and the Rhineland-Palatinate government supported a project to set up a museum with to show Wirth's ethnographic collection in the tithe barn of Lichtenberg Castle.

Kleinwallstadt

In Kleinwallstadt, then also known as Bischofswallstadt, which was converted to Christianity as early as the early 8th century, the Archbishop of Mainz established in 1023 a Vogtei and a tithe court over a great expanse of the Spessart (range).

LMLK seal

Religious tithes collected throughout Hezekiah's 29-year reign in response to his worship reformation following his accession (completely irrespective of the Assyrian invasion by Sennacherib)

Ma'aser Sheni

Ma'aser Sheni (Hebrew: מעשר שני, lit. "Second Tithe") is the eighth tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.

Mugena

In the Middle Ages, Como Cathedral possessed property, tithes and rights to use alpine meadows over half of Nisciora Alp.

Parish Church of St Clement

The church became a parish church no later than 1067, because it is known that Duke William II of Normandy granted half the tithes of the church to the Abbey of Montivilliers in Upper Normandy.

Poughley Priory

Pope Alexander in 1182 granted to the newly founded house entire exemption from tithes, and further ordered by his apostolic authority both the bishop of Salisbury and the archdeacon of Berkshire and their officials not to impose any new charges of any kind on the priory.

Presiding Bishop

Along with the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Presiding Bishopric is a part of the Council on the Disposition of the Tithes, a quorum which oversees and authorizes the expenditure of all tithing funds.

Rockford, Hampshire

A chapel at Rockford, subject to the church of Ellingham, was granted by Walter of St Quentin, with the tithe from his house, to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte about 1170, and mass was to be said there three times a week by the chaplain of Ellingham or a monk.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Veszprém

On 26 October 1313, King Charles I and Bishop Stephen Kéki concluded an agreement under which the Bishop ceded the tithe of Csepel Island to the King in exchange for the County of Veszprém.

Seventh Crusade

For the next three years Louis collected an ecclesiastical tenth (mostly from church tithes), and in 1248 he and his approximately 15,000-strong army that included 3,000 knights, and 5,000 crossbowmen sailed on 36 ships from the ports of Aigues-Mortes, which had been specifically built to prepare for the crusade, and Marseille.

Skerton

After Tostig's possession, Skerton was retained in demesne by the Lords of Lancaster; in 1094, demesne tithes from Skerton were granted to St Martin's at Sees by Count Roger of Poitou, (See Roger the Poitevin).

St Nicolas' Church, Abingdon

The earliest documentary evidence of this church's existence is in a ruling about tithes in 1177 by Pope Alexander III.

Strzyżów

In 1279 in Buda (Hungary) Pope’s legate, bishop Philip confirmed the abbot’s right to take a special tax (a tithe) from Czudec and Strzyżów.

Tithe maps

The term Tithe map is usually applied to a map of an English or Welsh parish or township, prepared following the Tithe Commutation Act 1836.


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