Folia Theologica 3. (1992)

Charles Duggan: Decretal letters to Hungary

DECRETAL LETTERS

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kingdom, Church and society at that time, a feature which Holtzmann noted also for Norway in his edition of Norwegian decretals through the same period.6 The letters of papal advice to Hungarian prelates on judicial procedures and juristic principles are also noteworthy — the Romano-canonical principle actor forum rei sequatur, for instance, appears in phraseological variants in two decretals.7 In the following survey of Hungarian decretals, the letters are arranged in the following sequence:

Kingdom of Hungary :

I. Alexander III to the king of Hungary (See also IV): Provinces of Esztergom and Kalocsa:

II. Alexander III to the archbishops of Esztergom and Kalocsa Province of Esztergom:

III. Alexander III to the archbishop of Esztergom (3 letters)

IV. Alexander III, concerning the archbishop of Esztergom (3 letters: to the archbishop of Esztergom; to the king of Hungary; to the suffragans, provosts, abbots, magnates, clergy and people)

V. Lucius III to the archbishop of Esztergom

VI. Alexander III to the bishop of Győr

VII. Alexander III to recipients in the diocese of Nitra

VIII. Celestine III to the bishop of Vác

Province of Kalocsa:

IX. Alexander III to the archbishop of Kalocsa Province of Split:

X. Alexander III to the archbishop of Split/Spalato

Province of Zara:

XI. Clement III to the bishop of Osor/Ossero

XII. Celestine III to the bishop of Arbe

6 W. HOLTZMANN, „Krone und Kirche in Norwegen im 12. Jahrhundert", Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 2 (1938) 341-400.

7 See at nn. 17 and 19 below.