Venerable
The Decretale Venerabilem is a papal decree of Innocent III. from the year 1202, in which the Pope claimed the right to intervene in the election of a king and also to examine the suitability of the candidates. In this respect, the papal license to practice medicine was stipulated for the person of the emperor . The letter is addressed to the Duke of Zähringen and is included in the Pope's controversy register (Reg. Vat. 6). It was in the Liber Extra , the collection of decretals of Gregory IX. , added (X 1.6.34).
These decretals should not be confused with those of Innocent III in the same year. published decretals Per Venerabilem .
See also
literature
- Bernward Castorph: The training of the Roman royal suffrage . Studies on the history of the impact of the decretal “Venerabilem” . Göttingen 1978