Fidem catholicam

The document Fidem catholicam is an imperial mandate of Ludwig IV , which sanctioned and legally justified the replacement of the king's election from the license to practice medicine.

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The mandate of August 6, 1338 declares the Pope's trials against Emperor Ludwig IV null and void and justifies the legal consequences of the elections by the electors using arguments from canon law and Roman law . Under threat of deprivation of fiefs , offices and privileges, it orders the members of the Reich to ignore the excommunications and imposed interdicts .

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The document Fidem catholicam was created with the decisive participation of the spiritualists persecuted and excommunicated by the church in the poverty struggle ( Wilhelm von Ockham , Michael von Cesena , Marsilius von Padua , Bonagratia von Bergamo ), who worked at the court of Ludwig in Munich and fought against the overwhelming power of the papacy . Together with the resolutions of the Kurverein zu Rhense and Ludwig IV. Licet iuris, it forms the legal basis for the separation of the legality of imperial power from the approval by the Pope. This emancipation process of secular power finds its conclusion in the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV of 1356 .

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• Hans-Jürgen Becker: The mandate “Fidem catholicam” Ludwig of Bavaria from 1338 . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 26, 1970, pp. 454-512. Critical Edition: pp. 493–512.
• Fidem catholicam, in: Otto Berthold (transl.): Kaiser, Volk and Avignon. Selected sources on the anti-curial movement in Germany in the first half of the 14th century (= Leipzig translations and treatises on the Middle Ages, series A, vol. 3), Berlin 1960, no. 44, pp. 248-271.

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Becker: The mandate “Fidem catholicam” Ludwig of Bavaria from 1338 . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 26, 1970, pp. 454-512.