A Compendium of Ecclesiastical History (3) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: During this struggle,17 upon the fall of Ptoleuiais (18. May 1291) the dominion of the Christians in the Holy Land was lost for ever.1s 59. BONIFACE VIII. (24. DEC. 1-.?-?. OCT. 1303.) BENEDICT XI. (2i. OCT. 13087. JL. 1804.) By a combination of ambition, daring, and eraft,1 Boniface VIII. had made his way to the Papal throne,2 and now threatened to consummate its supremacy on earth. But he fell a victim to the attempt to bring under the Papal yoke the hitherto unmolested kingdom of France, where all along a sounder state of feeling had resisted the Pope's universal-monarchy: s even more, he brought the Papal See itself into bondage to France. patre nequitiae filius iniquitatis exivit, Jacobus videlicet ete., a metaphor long before used up, see 57, not. 19 and 26.) However, Nicolas IV. had to consent to make peace with Alphonse, as King of Aragon (Rayn. ad h. a. no. 51.) 17 Martin IV. not only drew away from the Holy Land many crusaders (see note 15), but sent also to King Charles large sums from the tithe contributed for that purpose, as he expresses himself (Kayn. 1283 no. 41): quod in hujusmodi defensione ac custodia non solum diet i Regis, sed etiam Romanae Ecclesiae honor et ufilitasprocurantur. 18 Marinus Sanutus lib. iii. P. xii. c. 21 ss. Abulfeda, who was there in person at the time, ann. Moslem, v. 95. Schlosser III. ii. i. 348. Wilkenvii. 719. 1 Opinions of contemporaries of the Papal party about Boniface: Ptolemaeus Luc. hist. eccl. xxiii. c. 36 (in Murat. xi. 1203): Hie longo tempore experientiam habuit Curiae, quia primo advocatus ibidem, ii1de factus postea notarius Papae, postea Cardinalis, et inde in cardinalatu expeditor ad casus Collegii declarandos, seu ad exteros respondendum. Nee in hoc habuit parem, sed propter hanc causam factu...