Allegationes

The Allegationes (Latin justifications ) are a short memorandum written in Latin by Francesc Eiximenis between 1398 and 1408 in Valencia . The scholar Albert Hauf copied it and published it in 1986.

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Between 1398 and 1408 there was a conflict between church and state in Valencia over the legal status of the clergy. The Justícia (judicial authority) of the Kingdom of Valencia ordered the confiscation of the clergy's weapons on display. The bishop of Valencia, Hug de Llupià (a close friend of Eiximenis, to whom he had already dedicated his pastoral ), demanded that the clergy be treated according to canon law, which forbade them to possess weapons. He demanded that the clergy collect weapons himself. There was another dispute between the Grand Master of the Order of Montesa and the King of Aragon . Arbitration proceedings have been initiated with the aim of resolving these disputes. Sixteen leading figures from the Kingdom of Valencia were asked to comment. The majority of them were lawyers, but there were also some clerics, including Eiximenis. Its contribution to arbitration was given the name Allegationes by Eiximenis researchers . The report must have been written before 1409, as Eiximenes died in Perpignan in April of that year .

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Under the leadership of numerous authorities, Eiximenes defends the jurisdiction of the Church in temporalibus . The document is significant evidence of Eiximenis' theocratic thinking. The arguments he developed in this work for the support of papal theocracy, he often repeated in other writings. He offers a similar argument in sections 75–81 and 234 of the First Book of Crestià or in the fourth part (sections 396–466) of the Twelfth Book of Crestià .

Among the arguments and authors cited by him, it is important to highlight the following:

the bull Unam Sanctam of Pope Boniface VIII.
De consideratione from Bernhard von Clairvaux
De sacramentis by Hugo von St. Viktor
Liber de personis ecclesiasticis by Isidore of Seville
the Donation of Constantine
the canon Henricus de Segusio (known as Cardinal Hostiensis ) in various of his works.

To support his argument, Eiximenis ends by telling how many emperors and kings were punished by God for attacking and persecuting the church. At the end of the list there is one monarch whom Eiximenis rejects most strongly: Frederick II. Eiximenis' negative assessment of this emperor in all of his works was particularly delicate because the kings of Aragón were descendants of Frederick II from the marriage of his granddaughter Constance of Sicily with Peter III. from Aragón .

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Text in the edition by Francesc Eiximenis (in Catalan and Latin) .

Individual evidence

↑ Hauf, Albert. “Les Allegationes de Fra Francesc Eiximenis, OFM sobre la jurisdicció i el poder temporal de l'Església”. Estudis de Literatura Catalana en honor de Josep Romeu i Figueras , II. PAM. 1986. 5-33. (Catalan) (Latin)
^ García y García, Antonio. “Relaciones entre la Iglesia y el Estado en Valencia a principios del siglo XV”. Escritos del Vedat , IX. 1979. 235-46. (Spanish)
^ Brines, Lluís . La Filosofía social y política de Francesc eiximenis . Seville. Ed. Novaedició. 2004. pp. 515 pp. (Catalan)

[1] Hauf, Albert. “Les Allegationes de Fra Francesc Eiximenis, OFM sobre la jurisdicció i el poder temporal de l'Església”. Estudis de Literatura Catalana en honor de Josep Romeu i Figueras , II. PAM. 1986. 5-33. (Catalan) (Latin)

[2] García y García, Antonio. “Relaciones entre la Iglesia y el Estado en Valencia a principios del siglo XV”. Escritos del Vedat , IX. 1979. 235-46. (Spanish)

[3] Brines, Lluís . La Filosofía social y política de Francesc eiximenis . Seville. Ed. Novaedició. 2004. pp. 515 pp. (Catalan)