Item of Great Interest in the EHR

EHR: English Royal Marriages and the Papal Penitentiary in the Fifteenth
Century

Hi, all--

I haven't seen this mentioned here, so I thought I'd bring up an article
appearing
in the latest edition of the English Historical Review:

_http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/120/488/1014?etoc_
(http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/120/488/1014?etoc)

English Royal Marriages and the Papal Penitentiary in the Fifteenth Century

Peter D. Clarke
University of Wales, Bangor

This is the abstract:

The papal penitentiary was the highest body in the later medieval Church
oncerned with matters of conscience. It granted absolution in cases
reserved for papal authority and issued dispensations and licences that
were also a papal monopoly. Requests for these papal favours, where
approved by the penitentiary, were recorded in registers, and 150 such
registers survive in the Vatican Archives for the pre-Tridentine period.
Accessible to researchers only since 1983, they represent a major new
body of sources for religious, social and cultural history. This Note shows
that they are also important for political and diplomatic history since it
presents new evidence from the registers of papal dispensations for
four fifteenth-century English royal marriages. The couples in question
are Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of York;
Edward, prince of Wales, and Anne Neville; Richard, duke of Gloucester
(later Richard III), and Anne Neville; Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) and
Elizabeth of York. The Note includes an edition of the pertinent entries in
the
registers and of a letter granting a further dispensation for the marriage
of
Charles the Bold and Margaret of York; this was issued by a papal envoy
to England and is held in the Archives départementales du Nord (Lille).
The Note arises from research for a calendar of entries concerning England
and Wales in the penitentiary registers to 1503, currently being prepared
by the author and Patrick Zutshi for the Canterbury and York Society.
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LML,
Pam

--- In , PamelaJButler@a...
wrote:
>
>
> EHR: English Royal Marriages and the Papal Penitentiary in the
Fifteenth
> Century
>
> Hi, all--
>
> I haven't seen this mentioned here, so I thought I'd bring up an
article
> appearing
> in the latest edition of the English Historical Review:
>
> _http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/120/488/1014?
etoc_
> (http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/120/488/1014?
etoc)
>
> English Royal Marriages and the Papal Penitentiary in the
Fifteenth Century
>
> Peter D. Clarke
> University of Wales, Bangor
>
> This is the abstract:
>
> The papal penitentiary was the highest body in the later medieval
Church
> oncerned with matters of conscience. It granted absolution in cases
> reserved for papal authority and issued dispensations and licences
that
> were also a papal monopoly. Requests for these papal favours,
where
> approved by the penitentiary, were recorded in registers, and 150
such
> registers survive in the Vatican Archives for the pre-Tridentine
period.
> Accessible to researchers only since 1983, they represent a major
new
> body of sources for religious, social and cultural history. This
Note shows
> that they are also important for political and diplomatic history
since it
> presents new evidence from the registers of papal dispensations
for
> four fifteenth-century English royal marriages. The couples in
question
> are Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of York;
> Edward, prince of Wales, and Anne Neville; Richard, duke of
Gloucester
> (later Richard III), and Anne Neville; Henry Tudor (later Henry
VII) and
> Elizabeth of York. The Note includes an edition of the pertinent
entries in
> the
> registers and of a letter granting a further dispensation for
the marriage
> of
> Charles the Bold and Margaret of York; this was issued by a papal
envoy
> to England and is held in the Archives départementales du Nord
(Lille).
> The Note arises from research for a calendar of entries concerning
England
> and Wales in the penitentiary registers to 1503, currently being
prepared
> by the author and Patrick Zutshi for the Canterbury and York
Society.
> ---------------------------------
> LML,
> Pam
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Interesting. University of Wales, Bangor is also where Hazel Pierce
(Margaret of Salisbury's biographer) is based.