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The term Papal Legation, in a territorial sense, refers to certain northern administrative regions of the erstwhile Papal States: specifically the "Legations" of Ferrara, Bologna, and Romagna. In 1860, after the Second Italian War of Independence, the Papal Legations entered through a referendum in the Kingdom of Sardinia.
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Adhemar of Le Puy, papal legate during the First Crusade...
John V , pope from 685 to August 2, 686, was a Syrian by birth, and on account of his knowledge of Greek had in 680 been named papal legate to the Sixth Ecumenical Council at Constantinople. He was the successor of Benedict II, and after a pontificate of little more than a year, passed chiefly in...
province. Papal legate is a messenger from the Holy See to the nations. The highest rank of a legate is... The word legate comes from the Latin legare , to send. The broad meaning is a person sent as a representative of another person. There are several uses for this word: A legate is a member of a...
Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow
papal legate into Moscow, who had been accompanying Sophia Paleologue. That same year, Philip started...
Gregory VIII , né Albert de Mora ( ca. 1100 - December 17, 1187) was Pope from October 25th, 1187 until his death. In 1172 as papal legate he attended the council of Avranches, which absolved Henry II of England from the guilt of the murder of Thomas a Becket. He also proposed the Third Crusade...
Honorius II , né Lamberto Scannabecchi ( Lambert of Ostia ) (d. February 13, 1130), was Pope from December 21, 1124 to February 13, 1130. As papal legate he had been one of the framers of the... Knights Templar, received papal sanction. The name of Honorius II had also been assumed in the previous...
of Sambians. The other three dioceses, arranged by the papal legate William of Modena, were...
the Visigoths. The future Pope Boniface III is appointed papal legate to Constantinople. A revolt...
The Cisalpine Republic was a French client republic in Northern Italy from 1797 to 1802. It consisted of roughly the former Duchy of Milan, those portions of the Republic of Venice west of the Adige River, the Duchy of Modena, the Papal Legations, and the Piedmontese province of Novara. The...