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Patriarch was also Apostolic Legate

discussed in Ceccon, SInodi diocesane, 54

1181x1191

Mansi gives two councils, but they belong to the same one

Gauthier de Coutances

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtJEAAAAcAAJ

<ask Joel or Gavin>

draws on four canons of LatIII, as well as many earlier councils; see Pontal, Conciles, 360-62

Martene, Thes, IV, col. 1177-80

Mansi 22, col. 647-50 & suppl. t. 2, coll 755-58;

https://books.google.com/books?id=bjSeGwAACAAJ

Acta giving summary of diocesan statutes issued at synod, rather than statutes proper

For province of Narbonne, convened by legate of Celestine III

Baluze, Concilia Galliae Narbonensis, pp28-38

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51606z/

promulgates Lat3 canons, among others

for province of Antivari

12 articles

Ego Iohannes Diocliensis et Antibarensis Archiepiscopus subscripsi.
Ego Dominicus archipresbiter Arbanensis subscripsi.
Ego Petrus Scuarinensis episcopus subscripsi.
Ego Iohannes Polatinensis episcopus subscripsi.
Ego Petrus Aruastinensis episcopus subscripsi.
Ego Dominicus Soacinensis episcopus subscripsi.
Ego Natalis Dulcinensis episcopus subscripsi.
Ego Theodorus Sarcanensis episcopus subscripsi.

1194x1206

Mandate to archdeacons

Episcopal mandate concerning pentecostal processions

1200 (ca.)

Earlier attribution to Gerardo da Sesso challenged in Olivieri, Costituzioni di Gerardo da Sesso

Issued for the clergy of Milan

Barthélemy de Vendôme

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51606z/f2.image

1200x1208

Facing page translation into French

Statutes of Eudes de Sully (very complicated transmission history)

1200x1208

likely issued following Innocent III's 1205 letter to the bishop of Paris concerning Jews (see Pontal, SS, I, 41-43)

Additions to Statutes of Eudes de Sully (very complicated transmission history; these appear in three MSS); may have been omitted due to secular pressure (since they contain a strong condemnation of Jewish usury)

1200x1215

England (unknown)

Issued for an unknown English diocese; lat/long location marked as Canterbury

issued (it would seem, acc. editor's note) as a local appendix to the 1200 Council of Westminster

first lines illegible in MS

Géoffroy de la Lande

1208/1209

Pontal gives 1208; Vincent (Letters and Charters of Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, 151-53) gives 1209

Most of the surviving texts appear alongside statutes of Paris, but Guala's intended reach was broader (and constitutions were later promulgated in Normandy)

convened by Legates Milo and Hugues, Bishop of Riez and Apostolic Legate (from 1208-1213); convened prelates included AB Vienne, Arles, Embrun, Aix, and bishops of dioceses surrounding Toulouse in the province of Narbonne

1209 (ca)

dating uncertain (Johanek gives ca. 1203/05, reworked until sometime before 1215; Pixton gives 1209, given that Siegfried held a provincial synod that yer)

Siegfried II. von Eppstein

CoSyn Transcription from Johanek edition

Inc. Ex synodo magontino. Precipimus omnibus episcopis per provintiam maguntinam...

Johanek notes that these were heavily influenced by statutes of Eudes de Sully, and then reworked over time (down to the Fritzlar statutes of 1244)

According to edition, these were reissued 1236 by Bp Wilbrand van Oldenburg, but he died in 1233.

As noted by Pixton, these are similar to those issued for Cologne and Liege that same year

1198x1215

MS ascribes it to Bp Eustace of Ely, but this is not certain

Powicke & Cheney I, 41-42

Concerning tithing of sheep

1209x1211

These are interspersed with additions by Bp Sigebaldo (r. 1249-68)

Gerardo da Sesso

for brief discussion of dating, see Maccarrone, Cura animarum, 277, n22; Franceschini, Storia di Milano, IV, pp166-69 dates it (surely incorrectly) to 1212

AB was papal legate; whether he was actually AB of Milan is somewhat shaky

Gerardo da Sesso

Olivieri, Costituzioni di Gerardo da Sesso

-issued for clergy of dioceses elsewhere in Lombardy/environs (whose bishops were summoned by Gerard in his capacity as papal legate)
-influenced by his earlier statutes for Novara

1213/1214

July 1213 or July 1214

Earliest surviving statutes for any English diocese

month uncertain; for date, see Dickson, "Le cardinal Robert de Courcon" AHDLMA 9, 1934, pp90-91

Seems to be directed to entire province, but scope is unclear (and there is no extant roster of participants)

Robert de Courcon

1213 (aft.)

Pontal (Conciles de la France capetienne, p397) notes that these postdate the 1213 legatine statutes, and come instead from later councils.

Seems to be directed to entire province, but scope is unclear (and there is no extant roster of participants)

Robert de Courcon

Additiones to preceding statutes of 1213 council, along with a set of later statutes

Probably held in February-March; see Dickson, Vie du Cardinal Robert de Courson, 96

No extant roster of participants

Robert de Courcon

Bessin, Concilia Rotomagensis I, 110-126

https://www.unicaen.fr/bvmsm/ead.html?id=FR_UCBN_MSM_mss_av&c=FR_UCBN_MSM_mss_av_Avranches_BM_149_w6

Text taken from 1895_Paris_1213a, and lightly corrected against Bessin edition. Final thirteen canons missing from Paris version.

Statutes for Bourges Cathedral Chapter

Henry de Loundres

Robert de Courcon

Bath and Glastonbury

Diocese renamed Diocese of Bath in 1219, then Bath & Wells from 1245

Jocelinus Thoteman

Powicke & Cheney I, 44-46

concerning sequestration of vacant churches

1202x1223

dating from Diplomatarium Danicum

place unclear; according to the first redaction, it took place on the island of Zealand

survives in three redactions (two of which are complete, the third fragmentary); transcribed the first

council opened on Jan 8, 1215; it had been convened by Robert de Courson but was presided over by Peter of Benevento

Included Archbishops of Narbonne, Auch, Aix, Arles, and Embrun, as well as 28 suffragan bishops

legate a latere for France

Peter of Benevento

Baluze, Concilia Galliae Narbonensis, pp38-58

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51606z/

Pontal, Conciles, 391-94

46 canons, of which the first 31 (concerning clerical discipline) draw on Robert de Courcon's statutes issued in Paris

1216 (ca.)

1216/1217

after 1215; probably 1216/1217

p. 124: two versions (give shorter as alternate)

late September or early October

Text bound together with Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job and the Lateran IV decrees

CoSyn transcription largely from Pixton edition, with preface & cc. 16 & 17 transcribed directly from MS

see Mierau, Vita Communis und Pfarrseelsorge; Pixton, Watchmen, 227-31; Johanek, Synodalia, I.51-52, 89

Bp had briefly studied in Bologna, though he showed greater preference for Roman than canon law (Pixton, Watchmen, 215, citing Reg. Inn., I, ed. Hageneder, 209ff, nr. 144)

1216/1217

Newtown near Trim

Dated 1271 in Helcel, but 1217 by Vetulani; see Krafl, Polske provincialni synodi, 139

Vetulani, Statuty synodalny Henryka Kietlicza, 10-13

1216x1219

Guillaume II. de Beaumont

Paris, BnF lat 11029, fol 25-38

Paris BnF lat 11030, fol 4-25; BnF lat 18340, fol 14-26v; others in Nantes

CoSyn transcription from Pontal edition, which gives facing page translation

The so-called "Synodal de l'Ouest" - is then diffused across much of western France; it has a complicated transmission and MS history
-First part contains most of the statutes of Eudes de Sully, some LatIV decrees, and some provincial canons
-Second part is a penitential
-Third part is basic guide to the faith for instruction of laity

1217x1219

with additions 1219x1228; reissued for Durham 1228x1236 after Bp Poore was translated to that see

Powicke & Cheney, I, 57-96

1219 (ca.)

dating given by Gremaud and upheld by Morenzoni, despite objections by some others (incl. Treyer), who push it to 1233 or later; Postscript section added after 1300

includes the entirety of the 1206 legislation, and portions of 1189 and 1192 legislation

1219x1224

Guillaume de Seignelay

Synodicon ecclesie Parisiensis, ed. Fr. de Harlay, Paris: Muguet, 1674. (pp26-28)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6251679t

https://books.google.com/books?id=Qz9AAAAAcAAJ

Held at Osney Abbey, outside Oxford

1224 (ca.)

Peter des Roches

1222x1225

England (unknown)

Issued for an unknown English diocese; lat/long location marked as Canterbury

dated 1223 in Bessin, Mansi, and Hefele; but Normandy used Easter-style dating (as noted by Vincent Tabbagh, in Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae)

Thibaut of Amiens

Bessin, Concilia, I, pp130-132

https://books.google.com/books?id=0SGIk69vxS0C

19 canons (all derived from Lat IV)

1219x1234

attribution to Hugh Foliot (and hence dating) not certain

May not have been issued in a synod but simply sent in letter from AB to suffragans

Decree against concubinary priests and beneficed clerks and their mistresses;

1222x1228

Transcription adapted from 1481_Salisbury_1218c, with emendations as noted by editors

Heavily based on Salisbury statutes issued by Richard Poore 1217x1219

was originally to be held at Cologne

Conrad had legatine authority over Mainz, Cologne, Trier, Bremen, and Magdeburg

Hartzheim, Concilia III, 520-25

https://books.google.com/books?id=-d5KAAAAcAAJ

Hartzheim etc. divided it into two sessions (Concilium Germanicum and Concilium Moguntinum); in fact it was a single council that met in several sessions over the course of a week (see Pixton, Watchmen, 346; timing first established by Binterim, Concilien, IV, 465)

Gathering of all the bishops of Sardinia, under authority of legate Goffredo

Avril reconstructs the two articles from other references

1227 (ca.)

Elevated to archdiocese in 1459

fragmentary toward end

Bonfiglio, bp of Siena, issues constitutions with assistance of the chapter and the Dominican master Riccardus, pursuant to Gregory IX's reform directive to the bishops of Tuscia

Pedro Ramirez de Piedrola

1227x1230

Originating location unclear

Articles sent to Archbishop of Tours in preparation for a provincial council

1225x1230

Issued for an unknown English diocese (Cheney tentatively suggested Hereford as a possibility);

Curzel, Secondo sinodo

one surviving constitution (survives only through later report), and traces of others appear in later statutes (see Curzel & Eccher studies)

Interdicimus ne clerici nostre diocesis eligant decanos, archipresbiteros, confratres sine voluntate domini episcopi, quod qui fecerint vel facere presumpserint, tanquam rebelles et contumaces et nostri iuris perversores excomunicamus et excomunicatos publice denunciamus, nisi infra quindecim dies coram nobis satisfacturi compareant, quia talis electio specialiter spectat ad nos.

went on to hold councils at Salamanca and Lleida, and elsewhere

For prelates of Castile and Leon

Old Spanish

focused on implementation of Lateran IV

1229 (ca.)

Compilation (Diocesan)

LIber synodalis

Avril, Naissance et evolution, 212-215

Edition consists entirely of references to earlier legislation, so hold off on transcription until earlier sources have been transcribed; at that point, remove ID 1279 from CoSyn database as a duplicate

Second synodal of Le Mans

1229 (?)

MS ref gives 1229, Degert (Liste critique des eveques d'Aire) gives 1299; but there doesn't appear to have been a Bp Martin for either date; acc. Gams, there was a Bp Martin in 1194, and a second in 1300.

"Incipiunt: Quia labilis est memoria hominum etc.
In haec verba expliciunt sinodales constitutiones diocesis Adurensis publicatae apud Villam Novam in ecclesia Sancti Ipoliti per Dominum Martinum episcopum Adurensem sexto die octobris anno 1229."

Maccarrone, Cura animarum, 321, opts for 1228; Benvenuti opts for 1237, Mansi opts for 1287; Olivieri, Tradizione sinodale, 310, gives 1229

council held by Goffredo di Castiglione, apostolic legate in Lombardy (later Pope Celestine IV); statutes then issued by Enrico di Settala, AB of Milan

Muratori, RIS, 8, cols. 1065-1068; Salsotto, Per la storia della chiesa novarese, pp32-33

https://books.google.com/books?id=lOJVAAAAcAAJ

https://archive.org/stream/RerumItalicarumScriptores8/Rerum_Italicarum_Scriptores_8#page/n585/mode/2up

1229 (ca.)

Compilation (Diocesan)

Facing page French translation in Pontal
This text is to be removed once ID 2026 is completed

Additiones to Synodal de l'Ouest; the same additiones are also found in Rouen and Angers

Council concluded on March 29

celebrated by cardinal legate (cardinal bishop of Sabina), for province of Tarragona

Pons Guri, Constitucions conciliars, Repr. II, pp236-251

-Puchades, Als ulls, 93, notes that none of the general councils of the Tarraconense celebrated between 1274 and 1330 contain constitutions against usury

1229/1230

25 March 1229 x 24 March 1230

diocese also known as "The Isles'; see Cheney, Manx Synodal Statutes, pt 1
actually a Possession of the Crown; not part of either England, Scotland or the U

see Cheney, Manx Synodal Statutes, pt 1

contains numerous later 13th- and 14th-c interpolations (see p24, n28), incl. cc. 10, 11, 12

no statutes; just fiscal decision

Narbonne, Bordeaux, Auch

AB of Narbonne, Bordeaux, and Auch participated, along with many others

Romano Bonaventura

Romain de Saint-Anges

Statutes concerning the cathedral chapter, confirmed by the papal visitor

Conrad I of Rüdenberg

Hartzheim, Concilia Germaniae, IV, 657-58

https://books.google.com/books?id=kbNumdYKdrkC

Durand de Beaucaire

Bishop came from Bourges and was clearly concerned about heresy (Pontal, II, 3)

(64) Item, precipimus quod omnes sacerdotes et capellani habeant et teneant et observent statuta nostra synodalia, et in manu sua in omnibus synodis teneant et observent. Quod si non habuerint, persolvant X solidos ramundenses. Ista autem precipimus statuta quod bis in epdomada legant loco VII psalmorum.
**priests and chaplains to read the statutes twice weekly in lieu of 7 penitential psalms

1225x1235

reworked and augmented by Hostiensis in 1249

Many passages copied directly from Synodal de l'Ouest (0904_Angers_1218c), as per Pontal edition

1220x1240

mid-13th-c, likely 1220s or 1230s acc. Watt

Concilia Scotiae, II, pp30-43

Statutes of the Scottish Church, pp30-45 (translation)

survives in MS begun in 1380s

[given as cc. 56-86 in edition]

Watt, Church Councils, 58-60

heavy borrowing from Salisbury 1217x1219 (at least twelve canons are largely dependent on the earlier text)

1230x1240

13th-c; dating unclear but likely 1230s acc. Watt

Concilia Scotiae, II, pp44-52

Statutes of the Scottish Church, pp46-56 (translation)

[given as cc. 87-108 in edition]

1228x1236

first issued for Salisbury 1217x1219; with additions 1219x1228 and reissued for Durham 1228x1236 after Bp Poore was translated to that see

Powicke & Cheney, I, 57-96

Transcription adapted from 1481_Salisbury_1218c, with omission of c. 81 and cc. 102-14 (though this may well be the result of a defective manuscript rather than editorial changes; minor changes from app. crit. (based on MSS L & M) not made after c. 3 (except for additions at cc. 41, 46, 47, 53, 57, 69, 83, and omission at c. 96).

1224x1237

Coventry and Lichfield

Alexander of Stavensby

Includes tract on Seven Deadly Sins and tract on Confession and Penance

1225x1237

Guillaume II. de Beaumont

CoSyn Transcription from Avril edition

Found as additions to a later Liber synodalis of Angers

Asparec de la Barca

Juhel de Mathefelon

Avril, Tours, p137 – first of a series of reforming councils in the ecclesiastical province of Tours

Apparently drafted by Guillaume de Beaumont, Bp of Angers (1203-1240); see Pontal, Statuts synodaux, I, 106 n1 (citing Travers, III, 90)

1231/1232

1231 (ca.)

Facing page French translation

Additiones to Synodal de l'Ouest; the same additiones are also found in Mans and Angers

dated 17 March 1219 in Sudendorf; dated 17 March 1230 in most other works; for dating to 21 March 1231, see Kohn, Verketzerung, 75-78

R. Kohn, Die Verketzerung der Stedinger durch die Bremer Fastensynode, Bremisches Jahrbuch 57 (1979), 15-86

anti-heresy decree against the Stedinger

Elevated to archdiocese in 1459

Dated 1234 in Mansi and Palazzini; Cabie argued it was held before 26 April 1232; Dossat notes that it was probably held around April 11 (Easter) of that year, and rules out anything earlier than spring 1232

Bp of Tournai and apostolic legate; attendance at council uncertain

Siegfried III von Eppstein

Johanek, Synodalia, I notes that it shows influence of Eudes de Sully's Parisian statutes

May, Exekutoren, 377: observes that these were borrowed in part from statutes of 1154 (now lost)

Kodeks Dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski, t. 1, (Poznan, 1877), no. 150

Hube, Antiquissimae constitutiones...Gnesnensis, 1856, 1-8

http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/Content/20061/kw_01.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=SaYSmwEACAAJ

Numbering from Hube edition

Promulgated by AB of Tours, during episcopal visitation of diocese of St-B, with consent of Bp Guillaume Pinchon (r. 1220-1234)

Juhel de Mathefelon

Palazzini, Dizionario, sv Tours

some of the statutes applied to whole province (margin notes these as “est provinciale”)

Géraud de Malemort

apparently with some influence from Salisbury, but notably limited influence from LatIV (as observed in Avril, Bordeaux et Saintes, 29)

Gallia christiana novissima, Arles, cols. 382-85, no. 988

https://books.google.com/books?id=B4JPAAAAYAAJ

Note at end of MS: "Precedentia statuta, excepto statuto de usuris judeorum, fuerunt renovata [a] predicto domino Johanne, in concilio Arelatensi, anno Domini M.CC.XXX.VI, scilicet iii. ydus novembris." [i.e. all statutes reconfirmed in council of 1236 **except those concerning the Jews]

1235/1236

Mandate to Archdeacons

Robert Grosseteste