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On Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste’s Memorandum and its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement

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Publication date2013
Host publicationThirteenth Century England
EditorsJanet Burton, Phillipp Schofield, Bjorn Weiler
Place of PublicationWoodbridge
PublisherBoydell & Brewer
Pages115-128
Number of pages14
VolumeXIV
ISBN (print)9781843838098
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

On Friday 13 May 1250, Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, stood before Pope Innocent IV and the college of cardinals at the papal court at Lyons. Grosseteste had identified several abuses that were damaging to the Church and posed a danger to souls. His chief complaint was against the archbishop of Canterbury, Boniface of Savoy, who was attempting to levy uncustomary procurations, that is, payments from the clergy to support a visitation of the archdiocese. When it was put to Grosseteste by some of the cardinals that Boniface was entitled to the procurations by canon law, the bishop appealed to...