Abstract
From its medieval origins up to the Concordat of 1753, the Chapel in the Royal Palace, the Royal Chapel, was holding a particular jurisdiction and people belonged to it for the fact of being a courtier or work at the king’s service. Since the XVI century the Royal Chapel has been headed by the Pro-Chaplain of the Palace who was bearing the honorific title of Patriarch of the West Indies. By the middle of XVIII century, in order to avoid legal disputes with other ecclesiastical jursidictions, the Popes Benedict XIV and Pius VI, decided to set territorial limits to the Royal Chapel and, in fact, it became a vere nullius Prelature, —even if it was never erected as such—, constituted by the Ministerial Parish of the Royal Palace, The Parish of El Pardo, and The Parish of Aranjuez. At the beginning of the XIX century there was an attempt to convert the Royal Parish into cathedral, but it failed. Nevertheless, the Concordat of 1851 maintained the privileged jurisdiction to the Royal Chapel, and so it lasted up to the first of April 1933.
Highlights
From its medieval origins up to the Concordat of 1753, the Chapel in the Royal Palace, the Royal Chapel, was holding a particular jurisdiction and people belonged to it for the fact of being a courtier or work at the king’s service
Since the XVI century the Royal Chapel has been headed by the Pro-Chaplain of the Palace who was bearing the honorific title of Patriarch of the West Indies
Ferreres afirma taxativamente que «el carácter territorial de la jurisdicción palatina se confirma por el hecho de ser erigida en Parroquia, con los mismos derechos y prerrogativas que otras Parroquias territoriales»89 A pesar de ello, según los documentos consultados, no parece posible mantener esta proposición: la Real Capilla no fue una Parroquia como las demás territoriales, por los siguientes motivos:
Summary
Desde sus orígenes medievales hasta el Concordato de 1753, la Real Capilla de Palacio de Madrid ha sido una peculiar jurisdicción, a la que se pertenecía por el hecho de ser cortesano o trabajar para el rey. Al frente de la Real Capilla estuvo, desde el siglo XVI, el Pro-capellán de Palacio que tenía el título honorífico de Patriarca de las Indias Occidentales. Desde mitad del siglo XVIII, para evitar pleitos con otras jurisdicciones eclesiásticas, los Papas Benedicto XIV y Pío VI señalaron unos límites territoriales a la Real Capilla que pasó a ser, de hecho, una prelatura vere nullius, integrada por la Parroquia Ministerial de Palacio, la Parroquia de El Pardo y la Parroquia de Aranjuez, aunque, no llegó a ser erigida como tal prelatura. PALABRAS CLAVE: real capilla, jurisdicción, concordato, Pro-capellán de Palacio, Patriarca de las Indias Occidentales
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