Alonso de Cartagena y la defensa de la exención del obispado burgalés frente al primado toledano

Jorge Díaz Ibáñez

doi:10.5209/rev_elem.2011.v34.36303

Abstract

The bishop of Burgos Alonso de Cartagena’s defence of the privilege of exemption and the direct dependence upon the Holy See that his diocese of Burgos enjoyed with respect to the Archbishop of Toledo Alonso Carrillo de Acuna’s attempt to extend his rights of primacy to the diocese of Burgos and displace himself within his territory, carrying the lifted cross before him as a symbol of his authority. A study of the conf ict that developed from 1448 through 1453, with an exchange of spiritual sanctions between both prelates and royal and pontifical mediation in the dispute, which finalized with an agreement in June 1453, determining that the archbishop of Toledo, in the condition of “first in Hispania” and not as metropolitan, could have the lifted cross carried before him in the city and bishopric of Burgos, although the Toledan prelate had to recognize that the diocese of Burgos was exempt and depended directly on the Holy See.

Highlights

The bishop of Burgos Alonso de Cartagena’s defence of the privilege of exemption and the direct dependence upon the Holy See that his diocese of Burgos enjoyed with respect to the Archbishop of Toledo Alonso Carrillo de Acuña’s attempt to extend his rights of primacy to the diocese of Burgos and displace himself within his territory, carrying the lifted cross before him as a symbol of his authority
A study of the conflict that developed from 1448 through 1453, with an exchange of spiritual sanctions between both prelates and royal and pontifical mediation in the dispute, which finalized with an agreement in June 1453, determining that the archbishop of Toledo, in the condition of “first in Hispania” and not as metropolitan, could have the lifted cross carried before him in the city and bishopric of Burgos, the Toledan prelate had to recognize that the diocese of Burgos was exempt and depended directly on the Holy See
Los metropolitanos de Braga, Tarragona y Santiago de Compostela casi siempre manifestaron su total oposición al reconocimiento de dicha primacía toledana, y ello explica que desde fines del siglo XII el papado dejase de imponer a los arzobispos la sumisión y obediencia al primado, quedando así reducida la primacía toledana sobre todo a una dignidad honorífica, que como tal sería confirmada por la santa sede en numerosas ocasiones a lo largo de la baja Edad Media[4]

Summary

Introduction

También se alegaban múltiples defectos jurídicos de forma en el modo como se había llevado el proceso, incluido el incumplimiento de determinados plazos de apelación, se acusaba a Pedro Fernández Carrillo de parcialidad por ser familiar del arzobispo de Toledo, se insistía reiteradamente en que los derechos generales de primacía de este último no afectaban en modo alguno a la diócesis de Burgos en particular, por depender ésta exclusivamente de la santa sede, y no de ningún arzobispo ni primado, y finalmente, por todo ello, se apelaba en el pleito ante el papa Nicolás V.

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