Popes and prelates The Kingdom of Hungary and the Papal Reservation of the Consistorial Benefices (1301–1352)

Abstract

The reservation of ecclesiastical benefices, the relevant legislative changes and their practical application became an important tool in the period of the Avignon papacy to create papal authority inside the framework of local churches. The process affected the politically and financially more significant consistorial benefices first. The primary aim of the present study is to examine how the centralizing efforts of the Holy See affected the collation of consistorial benefices in the Kingdom of Hungary and how the ecclesiastical policy of the Hungarian kings influenced the papal decisions in the first half of the 14th century.