Donation of Pepin
by Arthur Leo Zagat
2021-04-09 11:09:25
The "Donation of Pepin", the first in 754, and second in 756, provided a legal basis for the formal organizing of the "States of the Church",[1] or "Papal States", which inaugurated papal temporal rule over civil authorities. The Donations were besto...
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The "Donation of Pepin", the first in 754, and second in 756, provided a legal basis for the formal organizing of the "States of the Church",[1] or "Papal States", which inaugurated papal temporal rule over civil authorities. The Donations were bestowed by Pepin the Short only three years after he became the first civil ruler appointed by a Pope, about the year 751.[2]
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