Emancipatio canonica

The Emancipatio canonica ( Latin " canonical release from guardianship"), in the subject-related literature mostly briefly emancipation , was in medieval church law the removal of an underage person from the legal dependence on the father or guardian .

In the cathedral and collegiate chapters , the term originally meant the exemption of new members from the supervision of the scholaster and the granting of full membership with voting rights and benefices . In the early modern era, when the dome friezes were reserved for aristocratic sons, emancipation was the last, solemn stage of the admission process that began with the revolt .

literature

• Historical and legal remarks on the right to vote of the bishops with regard to the bishopric of Bamberg on the occasion of the last election of a new prince-bishop . Frankfurt / Leipzig 1796, p. 161
• Johann August von Grolman : Principles of the general Catholic and Protestant canon law . Frankfurt am Main 1843, p. 114
• Jörg Wunschhofer: The occupation of prebends in the cathedral chapter of Münster by the Münster prince-bishops (1762–1801) . In: Westfälische Zeitschrift - magazine for patriotic history and antiquity, Volume 165, 2015, p. 51 ( online )