Event: Adoption, spiritual, Correspondence, Embassy, Pallium-despatch/receipt/request, RequestAlcuin 1.letter to Leo 1 seeking renewal of his spiritual kinship and York’s metropolitan status
Scholarly Info
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Alcuin 1 requested that Leo 1 renew the memory of his spiritual adoption of Alcuin 1 and asked him to grant the request of delegates from York (Anonymi 1913) for the pallium. |
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Notes:
*The identification of the city requesting the pallium as York is based on the fact that Alcuin 1 described it as 'civitas mea'.
Persons associated with this Event:
- Agent:
Alcuin 1
(Author, deacon and abbot of Tours, c.735-804) : Through his letter Alcuin 1 asked Leo 1 to renew the memory of his name on the spiritual tablets of his heart. He requested that Leo 1 grant a pallium to York in accordance with canonical custom and the apostolic teaching of Gregory 1. The authority of the pallium in those parts was necessary in the face of the oppressive perversity of evil men and to preserve the authority of the church.
- Recipient:
Leo 1
(III, pope, 795-816) : Leo 1 was asked to grant the pallium by Alcuin 1.
- (Other):
Gregory 1
(the Great, pope, 590-604) : Gregory 1's teaching was that the pallium should be granted to York.
- (Other):
Anonymi 1913
(Messengers sent to Pope Leo III (Leo 1) from York in 797) : Delegates (Anonymi 1913) had come to Leo 1 to request the pallium.
- (Other):
Anonymi 1914
(Evil men in the archbishopric of York in 797) : The authority of the pallium was necessary in those parts to counteract the oppressive perversity of evil men (Anonymi 1914).