Collector (church)
The collector (from Latin collector : collector) is an official or agent of the Roman Curia or Apostolic Chamber . One of its tasks is to collect the taxes to be paid to the papal see.
Collection of taxes
Collectors were used from the beginning of the 13th century. The taxes levied by them included the papal tithe , annates , St. Peter's penny and taxes, as well as other taxes to the curia. The collector was only active in the area assigned to it. The collectors were often entrusted with diplomatic tasks.
Collections
Johann Peter Kirsch uses the term collections for the entire activity of the papal collectors as well as for their respective collecting areas. The West had seven collections in the Middle Ages: France, Germany (with the church provinces of Trier, Cologne, Mainz, Prague and Livonia), the British Isles, the Iberian Peninsula, the Nordic Empire, Poland-Hungary and Italy.
literature
- Johann Peter Kirsch : The papal collections in Germany during the 14th century . Paderborn 1894
- Josef Kremsmair: Collectors . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3rd edition, Volume 4, Herder, Freiburg u. a. 2009, col. 184
- Christiane Schuchard: The papal collectors in the late Middle Ages . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000