Nicholas Breakspear (Adrian IV.): Englishman and PopeA. L. Humphreys, 1896 - 292 pages |
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Abbey Abbot Abelard Adrian IV Adrian's bull Albans Alexander Anastasius Apulia Archbishop Archbishop of Lund army Arnold of Brescia authority Beneventum Bernard bishops Brekespere brother Cardinal Boso Cardinalis cause CHAPTER character Chronicle Church Ciaconius Civita Castellana Clairvaulx clergy crown Danemark death doubt Duke Emperor empire England English envoys Eugenius faith father feudal France Frederic Barbarossa Frederic's German Girald Giraldus Cambrensis granted hand Harefield Henry Henry II Holy homage honour imperial INITIAL LETTER interdict Ireland Italy John of Salisbury King of Sicily kingdom land Langley Latin Christianity legate lived Lombardy Lord Louis Mariæ Matilda Matthew Paris Milman mission monastery monk Muratori never Nicholas Breakspear nobles Norway obtained papal peace Peter Pontiff Pontificorum Pope Adrian Pope's Prince received refused reign Robert Roman Rome Sancti senate sent spiritual Sweden temporal power troops twelfth century Viterbo William of Newburgh
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Page 262 - Decernimus ergo, ut nulli omnino hominum liceat prefatum monasterium temere perturbare aut eius possessiones auferre vel ablatas retinere minuere seu quibuslibet vexationibus fatigare; sed omnia integra conserventur eorum, pro quorum gubernatione ac sustentatione concessa sunt, usibus omnimodis profutura salva sedis apostolice auctoritate. Si qua igitur in futurum...
Page 73 - ... the boastful servility of obedience ; then the fame for piety, the lavish offerings of the faithful, the grants of the repentant lord, the endowments of the remorseful king — the opulence, the power, the magnificence. The wattled hut, the rock-hewn hermitage, is now the stately cloister ; the lowly church VOL.
Page 158 - Romanae ecclesiae quod tua etiam nobilitas recognoscit, non est dubium pertinere. Unde tanto in eis libentius plantationem fidelem et germen gratum Deo inserimus, quanto id a nobis interno examine districtius prospicimus exigendum.
Page 158 - Catholicus princeps intendis; et ad id convenientius exequendum, consilium apostolicae sedis exigis et favorem. In quo facto, quanto altiori consilio et majori discretione procedis, tanto in eo feliciorem progressum te, praestante Domino...
Page 158 - Hiberniae insulam, ad subdendum illum populum legibus et vitiorum plantariia inde exstirpanda, velle intrare, et de singulis domibus annuam unius denarii beato Petro velle solvere pensionem, et jura ecclesiarum illius terrae illibata et integra conservare.
Page 207 - Pope owed temporal allegiance to the Emperor. The authority of each depended on loose and flexible tradition, on variable and contradictory precedents, on titles of uncertain signification, Head of the Church, Vicar of Christ ; Patrician, King of Italy, Emperor ; each could ascend to a time when they were separate and not dependent upon each other. The Emperor boasted himself the successor to the whole autocracy of the Csesars, to Augustus, Constantine, Charlemagne : the Pope to that of St. Peter,...
Page 206 - ... be remitted to the sphere of abstract opinions about which men might consent to differ. ' These two powers, the Empire and the Papacy, had grown up with indefinite and necessarily conflicting relations ; each at once above and beneath the other ; each sovereign and subject, with no distinct limits of sovereignty or subjection ; each acknowledging the supremacy of the other, but each reducing that supremacy to a name or less than a name. The authority of each depended on loose and flexible tradition,...
Page 175 - Sicut a quibusda/m impetratum asseritur aut .confingitur : ab aliis autem unquam impetratum fuisse negatur" — " Obtained, as some assert or imagine, while others deny that it was ever obtained.
Page 42 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 179 - Paris," which is preserved in the Vatican Library. Thus it is the testimony of Matthew of Paris alone that here confronts us in the pages of Baronius, and no new argument can be taken from the words of the eminent annalist. Relying on the same high authority, I am happy to state that nowhere in the private archives, or among the private papers of the Vatican, or in the