text: Jan. 21 - Mar. 12. [244] In the letter Laudabilem Pope Celestine III answers questions posed by the bishop of Acre [Acon.ep.] [245] in relation to marriage, stressing throughout the need for proper procedures on testimony and proof. He discusses: (1) the legitimacy of a marriage to the daughter of a godfather; (2) couples who separate and the need for judgement in such a case by the church authorities; (3) the legitimacy of the marriage of a girl betrothed before the age of puberty and the importance of consent to consummation at the age of 12; (4) the conflict between a vow of chastity and a later vow of marriage; (5) the prohibition of the marriage of Sarraceni, converted to Christianity, to the women whose husbands they have killed while imprisoned by the Christains; (6) women who seek divorce when they discover that their second husbands, either Sarraceni who have converted to Christianity or Christians, have killed their first husbands in battle; (7) the indissolubility of the first marriage of a Christian who temporarily denies Christ and copulates with a pagan and has children, while the Christian wife left behind has a second marriage, with the consent of the archdeacon [of Acre], and has children; and the legitimacy of the children of both second marriages, one of which had been permitted by the archdeacon, provided the man’s first wife has died: (8) the period of time without consummation [3 years] that would dissolve a marriage; (9) a woman given under age to a nunnery by her parents, who receives the habit, leaves, has sexual relations with a knight and becomes pregnant, and is then forced to return to the religious community. The pope rules that a woman who has a child is not compelled to obey her parents.Jan. 21 - Mar. 12. [244] In the letter Laudabilem Pope Celestine III answers questions posed by the bishop of Acre [Acon.ep.] [245] in relation to marriage, stressing throughout the need for proper procedures on testimony and proof. He discusses: (1) the legitimacy of a marriage to the daughter of... more
sources: Mansi, Sacr. Concil. 22:638-41
comments: [244] For the date, see Holtzmann, ‘Le Collectio Seguntina’, p. 443. [245] Benjamin Kedar has drawn attention to the Sigüenza manuscript [owned by the Stephan Kuttner Institute for the Study of Medieval Canon Law], which is the only one of the 4 surviving copies of this letter that refers to the addressee.
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1396
year: 1198
initiator: Pope Celestine III
recipient: Bishop of Acre
text: Apr. 14 1191 - Jan. 8 1198. Pope Celestine III supports the bishop of Acre in his complaints against V, ecclesie Acconensis diaconus and Cenomannesis [Le Mans] archidiaconus, who has prefered to live in France for more than 10 years. The pope authorizes the bishop of Acre to summon V. to the Holy Land and, if he refuses to come, to elect another dean.Apr. 14 1191 - Jan. 8 1198. Pope Celestine III supports the bishop of Acre in his complaints against V, ecclesie Acconensis diaconus and Cenomannesis [Le Mans] archidiaconus, who has prefered to live in France for more than 10 years. The pope authorizes the bishop of Acre to summon V. to the Holy... more
sources: Hiestand, PK, pp. 370-1, no. 186
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