Romanus Pontifex (from Latin: "The Roman Pontiff") is the title of at least three papal bulls:
One issued in 1436 by Pope Eugenius IV;[citation needed]
A second issued 21 September 1451 bull by Pope Nicholas V, relieving the dukes of Austria from any potential ecclesiastical censure for permitting Jews to dwell there.[1]
Another in 1455 by Nicholas V[2] praising Catholic King Afonso V of Portugal for his battles against the Muslims, endorsing his military expeditions into Western Africa and instructing him to capture and subdue all Saracens, Turks, and other non-Christians to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery. The Church leaders argued that slavery served as a natural deterrent and Christianizing influence to “barbarous” behavior among pagans.[3][4] As a follow-up to the bull Dum Diversas, the church leaders now took positions aside the Crown of Portugal that it was entitled to dominion over all lands south of Cape Bojador in Africa. The bull's primary purpose was to forbid other Christian kings from infringing the King of Portugal's practice of trade and colonisation in these regions, particularly amid the Portuguese and Castilian competition for ascendancy over new lands discovered.[5]
^"Popes, The". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-14. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
^See full text pp. 13–20 (Latin) and pp. 20–26 (English) in European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies to 1648 Archived 2023-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, Washington, D.C., Frances Gardiner Davenport, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917–37 – Google Books. Reprint ed., 4 vols., (2004), Lawbook Exchange, ISBN 1-58477-422-3
^Miller, Robert J.; Ruru, Jacinta; Behrendt, Larissa; Lindberg, Tracey (2010). Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies. OUP Oxford. p. 11. ISBN 978-0199579815. This bull was issued several times in the fifteenth century by several popes.
^Carl Wise; David Wheat. "African laborers for a new Empire: Ibera, slavery and the Atlantic World". Archived from the original on 2022-11-12. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
^Tomlins, Christopher (2010). Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0521761390.
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successors the Kings of Portugal." In 1455, Pope Nicholas V issued RomanusPontifex, which extended Portugal's authority to conquer the lands of infidels...
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find a sea route to the East. The bull confirmed the earlier bulls RomanusPontifex, issued by Nicholas V in 1455. It also incorporated the terms already...
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monopoly would be enforced by the papal bulls Dum Diversas (1452) and RomanusPontifex (1455), granting Portugal the trade monopoly for the newly discovered...
(Giovanni) (1651). Bonifacius VIII e familia Caietanorum principum RomanusPontifex (in Italian). Romae: Corbelletti. Schmidinger, H. (1964). "Ein vergessener...