Historical contracts attaching conditions to the election of a pope
This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Conclave capitulation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(August 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Innocent VI, the first Pope to agree to a capitulation, and the first to disregard one
A conclave capitulation was a compact or unilateral contract drawn up by the College of Cardinals during a papal conclave to constrain the actions of the pope elected by the conclave. The legal term capitulation more frequently refers to the commitment of a sovereign state to relinquish jurisdiction within its borders over the subjects of a foreign state. Before balloting began, all cardinals present at the conclave would swear to be bound by its provisions if elected pope.[1] Capitulations were used by the College of Cardinals to assert its collective authority and limit papal supremacy, to "make the Church an oligarchy instead of a monarchy."[2] Similar electoral capitulations were used on occasion from the 14th to the 17th centuries in Northern and Central Europe to constrain an elected king, emperor, prince, or bishop.
^Baumgartner, 2003, p. xiii.
^Van Dyke, 1897, p. 172.
and 24 Related for: Conclave capitulation information
A conclavecapitulation was a compact or unilateral contract drawn up by the College of Cardinals during a papal conclave to constrain the actions of...
market capitulationCapitulation (treaty) Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire Capitulation (algebra) Conclavecapitulation Electoral capitulation This disambiguation...
VI. This conclave is remarkable because during its celebration cardinals for the first time in history subscribed the electoral capitulation, which limited...
1522 conclave that chose the short-lived Dutch Pope Adrian VI. Conclavecapitulation Elective monarchy Holy See Index of Vatican City-related articles...
A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the pope. Catholics consider the pope to...
position before the conclave. The remainder of 6 August was consumed by the drafting and subscription to the conclavecapitulation, which—although not...
remained independent of both major Catholic powers. After preparing a conclavecapitulation that compelled whichever cardinal was elected pope to maintain neutrality...
and political counterweight to papal supremacy. The conclavecapitulation of the 1352 papal conclave limited the size of the college to twenty, and decreed...
Pius II, a capitulation was prepared the conclavecapitulation, and all except Ludovico Trevisan subscribed to it. The terms of the capitulation were the...
Savelli, Ferry de Clugny, and Jan Vitez. A conclavecapitulation was drawn up at the beginning of the conclave, but unusually it contained no explicit limitations...
Innocent XI made the College swear to the Conclavecapitulation that had been drafted by the previous conclave before accepting his election, in an attempt...
Rome entered the conclave in Santa Maria sopra Minerva[why?]. On 2 March, the electors prepared and subscribed the conclavecapitulation. The terms of the...
Italy in order to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope. The conclavecapitulation preceding his election included several terms, such as the opening...
total catholicity and total unity is already intrinsic to it." Conclavecapitulation Donation of Constantine Eastern Orthodox opposition to papal supremacy...
was the favorite at 30 to 100. The cardinals began by drafting a conclavecapitulation, unlike all previous capitulations in that it contained no mention...
Eighteen cardinals entered the conclave in Vatican on August 16. Initially they subscribed to the conclavecapitulation, which obliged the elect to continue...
entered the conclave on October 10. Initially, they subscribed the conclavecapitulation, which obliged whoever was elected to do everything possible (including...
death of Innocent VII. Initially, all the electors subscribed the conclavecapitulation, in which each of them swore that, if elected, he would abdicate...
Trevisan was the only cardinal in the papal conclave, 1464 that did not subscribe to the conclavecapitulation, which among other things, bound the pope...
new rules were first applied in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis. Papal veto Conclavecapitulation Pascendi Dominici gregis This was a slight...
The 1559 papal conclave (5 September – 25 December) was convened on the death of Pope Paul IV and elected Pope Pius IV as his successor. Due to interference...
disruptive, role in the Conclaves of 1521 and 1523 on behalf of the Imperial interest. His family commitments and his conclave activities brought Pompeo...
1526. Pope Leo X died on Sunday, 1 December 1521, at the age of 46. The Conclave to elect his successor should have begun in mid-December, but the Cardinals...
succeed Pope Pius II by the accessus in the first ballot of the papal conclave of 30 August 1464 with a majority of fourteen of the nineteen cardinals...
Global Information
