Folia Theologica et Canonica 6. 28/20 (2017)

IUS CANONICUM - José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez, Raymond of Penyafort decretalist

RAYMOND OF PENYAFORT DECRETALIST

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ber of correspondences between SIC and SdC strongly suggests that the author took advantage of the same materials, even those attributed to Ambrosius.

According to the records from the 1220 to 1229, Friar Raymond was well known and highly regarded in the ecclesiastical milieu of the Ciutat Comtal. On March 14. 1222, «Magister Raimundus (de Pennaforti)» mediated in the dispute between «Berengarius de Sancto Vincendo» and «Bernardo Rapaz», two canons of Barcelona“. The Dominican was also the confidant of papal officers and kings. In 1228, Gregory IX sent John Algrin of Abbeville (Jean Halgrin d’Abbeville, Johannes Algrin de Abbatisvilla), cardinal bishop of Saint Sabina, to the Iberian Peninsula with the task of visiting the Spanish churches and verifying the introduction of the new Lateran constitutions. Raymond took part in this mission as «paenitentiarius Legati». During 1228, the papal legate visited San Pedro de Carderia (June, 10), Segovia (June, 16), Ávila (July, 20-21), San Pedro de Cardena (August, 8), Asterga (September), Pola de Gordon (September, 29), Santiago de Compostela (November, 3) and Valladolid (end of the year), where a provincial council was celebrated. During 1229, John Algrin appears in Coimbra (January, 7) and Salamanca (February, 5). In Zaragoza, on March 20, 1229, James I and Leonor, kings of Aragón, submitted the validity of their marriage to the good sense and judgement of the papal legate. Friar «R(ai- mundi) paenitentiarii domini Legati» figures as one of the witnesses of the solemn royal oath26 27 * 29. The papal legate called for a council of the Tarragona province in Lleida. and promulgated its constitutions on March 29. 1229. On April 29, in a council held in Tarazona, the cardinal declared the nullity of the marriage between James I, king of Aragón, and Leonor, the daughter of the king of Castile. From Tudela, the legate dispatched several issues on May 1 and 2, 1229. The legation continued in Calatayud (May, 20), Huesca (end of May), Ocana (June 3), Cuenca (June 14 and 20), Sigfienza (July 17), León (August 8), Lerma (August 17). Ágreda (August 26). Zuera (August 31 ). Martorell (September 10). Barcelona (September 11 to 19), Vich (September 20) and Girona (September 25 to 26). Once his mission was concluded, Cardinal John gave accounts to Gregory IX in Perugia, during October, 1229“.

On November 29, the pope asked Friar Prior and «fratri Raimundo Ordinis Praedicatorum Barcinone» to go through the French provinces of Arles and Narbone trying to enrol Christians in the war against Muslims on the island of Mallorca2''. As far as the city of Mallorca fell down into Christian hands on December 31, 1229, it is uncertain whether Raymond accomplished the task. Be this as it may, this was the first of a large string of papal errands.

26 Cf. Valls I Taberner, F., Diplomatari, mim. II.

27 Cf. Balme, F. - Paban, C. - Collomb, J. (ed.), Raymundiana, II. num. VI.

211 On the itinerary, councils and programme of John of Abbeville, cf. Linehan, P., The Spanish

Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge 1971. Chapter II.

29 Cf. Balme, F. - Paban, C. - Collomb, J. (ed.), Raymundiana, II, num. VII.