Mainz acceptance

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The Mainz acceptance is a declaration of intent with which the Roman - German King Albrecht II (1397–1439) and six Metropolitans of the Holy Roman Empire accepted a total of twenty-six reform decrees of the Basel Council at the Mainz Reichstag on March 26, 1439 .

history

The Council of Basel was held between 1431 and 1449 in several sessions and in different places; Several reform decrees were passed by the Council Fathers, in which the primacy of the Roman bishop was established and the implementation of regional synods was also ordered. During the council, the council participants turned away from the pope .

Bourges Pragmatic Sanction

King Charles VII of France declared the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), which was drawn up as a result of the Basel Council, a state law. With this he introduced Gallicanism and declared the extensive autonomy of the French Church from the Pope. He opposed papal centralism and was supported by the French cardinals . At the same time, the French clergy took over some reform decrees from the council resolutions.

Mainz acceptance

King Albert II wanted to follow the French model and also adopted some amended reform decisions of the Basel Council, but without the decisions on the superiority of the councils. The king and the metropolitans acted as constitutional organs , but they did not include this declaration in the imperial law . Since King Albert II did not press for the implementation of the new rules, the Mainz acceptance had no effect on the German Church. In the following years, only the Mainz ( Dietrich Schenk von Erbach ) and Salzburg ( Johann II. Von Reisberg ) Archbishop called special councils . The meaning of the Mainz Declaration was then suppressed by the Vienna Concordat of 1448. It came to renewed attention in 1762 through the emerged episcopalism and in 1786 became the basis of the Emser punctuation .

literature

  • Michael Borgolte: The medieval church (= Encyclopedia of German History, Volume 17). Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-20026-7 , Google Books , accessed October 11, 2013.

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