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Posted: 2025 Sep 05
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Quotes of the Week
From the #ItsGoodToBeKing file . . .
“Philip, by the grace of God king of the French, to Boniface who acts as though he were pope, little or no greeting. Let your great fatuity know that in temporalities we are subject to no-one…”
Philip IV “the Fair” of France responding to a letter from Pope Boniface VIII rebuking the king for appointing clerics without regard to papal wishes, a letter that was conspicuously burned, quoted in Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church & State 1050-1300
Source: John Robson Online
Posted: 2025 Sep 06
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