Folia Theologica 19. (2008)
Szuromi Szabolcs Anzelm: Outlines of the medieval concordatary Law between 1122 and 1418
OUTLINES OF THE MEDIEVAL 309 amine more carefully those things in which the conclusion of an infallible solution is accepted without contradiction and where the reprobate assumption of a false opinion is refuted. (...) Whence later in the person of the aforesaid Charlemagne who thought that the difficult yoke imposed by the Roman Church should be carried with pious devotion, the Apostolic See transferred the judgment-seat of the Empire to the Germans, placed it upon your predecessors and your own person, as you will admit that it happened by means of consecration and anointment - although reducing in nothing the substance of its own jurisdiction - and conceded to them the power of the sword in the subsequent coronation; you should therefore realize that you will clearly stand convicted of infringing the rights of the Apostolic See and your own faith and honor as long as you do not recognize your own creator. (...)."23 Nevertheless, Frederick II intended to unify North and South Italy, including the Papal State in the 1220's, which achieved the resistance of the Pope.24 Finally, Pope Gregory IX excommunicated Frederick II in 1227 and absolved his inferiors from their oath of allegiance. The Pope was obliged leave Rome because the vehement protest from the party of emperor. This strained relation partially mended in 1230, when Frederick II forced the absolution from the Pope by the document of Peace of Ceprano. At the same time, the relationship of the Holy See with the Portuguese was also very significant, which is well illustrated by the agreement of April 14 and November 25 of 1238.25 23 Ehler, S. Z.-Morrall, J. B., Church and State Through the Centuries. A Collection of historic documents with commentaries, Westminster, Maryland 1954. 77. 24 Documenti ad illustrazione del «Registro del card. Ugolino d'Ostia» legato apostolim in Toscana e Lombardia, in Archivio della R. Società Romana di storia patria 12 (1889) 241-326. MÜLLER, J., Die Legationen unter Gregor IX., in Römische Quartalschrift 37 (1929) 57-136. 25 Accettazione delle condizioni da parte di re Sancio II (25 Nov. 1238): Dom Sancho por graça de Deos Rey de Portugal, a vös Dom Syluestre pella mes- ma Arcebispo de Braga, saude. Sabei que eu prometo firmemente por esta minha carta aberta, que quero seja testemunha da verdade, de fazer goar- dar, et pör em execuçâo os artigos da liberdade Ecclesiastica contheudos no rescripto Apostolico, que principia nesta maneira - Gregorio Bispo seruo dos seruos de Deos ao illustrissimo Rey Portugal, deseja espirito de mais säo conselho. Se pezareis com madura consideraçâo quäo horrivel cousa seja encorrer na indinaçâo diuina, et cahir nas mäos de Deos viuo; certo he que vos abstiuereis de offender sua esposa a Igreja sagrada acquirida com seu propio sangue, et tratareis os ministros della com mais recato, etc. (...) Mercati, A. (ed.), Racolta di concordati, I. 59.
