Английская Википедия:Aldoin (bishop of Cefalù)

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Aldoin,[1] also spelled ArduinШаблон:Sfn or HarduinШаблон:Sfn (died 1248), was the bishop of Cefalù from 1217 until his death. He is best known for his three exiles (1222–1223, 1226–1227, 1235–1248)Шаблон:Sfn and his trial for maladministration in 1223–1224.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Early life

Aldoin was a native of Cefalù in the kingdom of Sicily.[2] He belonged to the knightly class of the nobility and was educated in law and rhetoric.Шаблон:Sfn Aldoin was from at least 1205 a notary of the royal chancery.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Between 1208 and 1212, he was one of the most active notaries of the chancery, responsible for almost a quarter of its known production.Шаблон:Sfn He was a layman.Шаблон:Sfn He drew up his last charter for Queen Constance of Sicily in July 1216.Шаблон:Sfn

Bishop

Early years

Aldoin was elected to succeed John of Cicala as bishop in May 1217 and the first document referring to him as bishop-elect is from 18 May. He was consecrated sometime between December 1217 and March 1218.Шаблон:Sfn In 1219, Honorius III appointed him a papal judge delegate alongside Archbishops Berard of Palermo and Carus of Monreale in a case involving the church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio.Шаблон:Sfn In 1220, he was again appointed a judge delegate, this time alongside the abbot of Santo Spirito, in a lawsuit between the church of San Cataldo and the cathedral of Palermo.Шаблон:Sfn

Aldoin visited Emperor Frederick II in Germany and Honorius III in Viterbo sometime between October 1219 and June 1220.Шаблон:Sfn It is probably in connection with his visit to Frederick that he was recognized as a familiaris domini regis ('one of the lord king's household'), a title attested in April–May 1220. Aldoin objected at the time to various exactions made by Archbishop Berard and Count Alamanno da Costa on behalf of the crown and for the support of the Fifth Crusade. He also objected to the embargo on trade with Genoa. By the end of the year he had fallen out with Frederick.[3]

At some point before 1220, Aldoin took control of the castle of Cefalù, which guarded the harbour.Шаблон:Sfn He appointed his brother Roger to serve as castellan.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

First exile

In November 1221, Aldoin was at Frederick's court in Palermo, but by December he was again resisting the royal government.Шаблон:Sfn In the autumn of 1222, he was accused by his own cathedral chapter of impropriety.Шаблон:Sfn In general, he was charged with "squandering Church property".[4] Frederick summoned both the accused and his accusers to appear before him in Messina. Aldoin ignored the summons and appealed to the pope. Frederick, believing the accusations, expelled Aldoin from his diocese and appointed two procurators to administer its temporalities.Шаблон:Sfn

On 26 September 1222, Aldoin went into the first of his three exiles. Honorius III at first sided with the bishop, granting a privilege to Aldoin in January 1223. In March, he met Frederick II at Ferentino and agreed to an investigation of the charges against Aldoin after the bishop was restored.Шаблон:Sfn Frederick's mother, Queen Constance, had relinquished the legatine authority of the crown over the Sicilian church and, in consequence, Frederick had to acquiesce to a papal trial. He did, however, write to the pope to recommend the accusers.Шаблон:Sfn

Trial

Aldoin returned to Cefalù on 12 April 1223.Шаблон:Sfn By 23 June, he had been restored to power.Шаблон:Sfn His trial, contrary to the pope's instructions, had begun in the interim under the abbot of Santo Spirito, acting as delegate for the appointed judge, Archbishop Шаблон:Ill. This had to be quashed and a new trial started in December 1223 under Bartholomew, the treasurer of Cosenza.Шаблон:Sfn Although Aldoin made an energetic defence, he strengthened his position by excommunicating witnesses and even the judge.[5] He made "extravagant claims to damages" incurred during Frederick's absence in Germany in 1216–1220 and demanded compensation for the costs of his trips to Rome.Шаблон:Sfn

Aldoin was accused of misusing church property and failing to maintain his church.Шаблон:Sfn He was also accused of keeping mistresses, two in Cefalù and one in Palermo, and of having fathered two sons and two daughters. He denied being the father of one and did not respond to the other accusations.[6] He was accused of having given church property to his relatives, including a certain Christian and Leo.[7] To a mistress named Rose, who lived in Cefalù, he was said to have given tithes; to one in Palermo, grain, wine, meat and silk that belonged to the church. He was accused of providing an illegitimate son with a benefice and a daughter with one of the church's villeins as a servant. Lead which had been procured to repair the windows of the cathedral he was said to have sold for cash.Шаблон:Sfn

No judgement was issued, first, because Aldoin accepted the appointment of a coadjutor, Thomas, canon of Messina, and, second, because Honorius ruled that the archbishop lacked the authority to re-delegate his responsibility once his first delegate had been dismissed, thereby nullifying the proceedings.Шаблон:Sfn The pope voided the appointment of a coadjutor and entrusted any retrial to Archbishops Berard of Palermo and Lando of Reggio. Nothing apparently came of this.Шаблон:Sfn The pope did confirm that the castle of Cefalù belonged to the king and not the bishop.Шаблон:Sfn

Second exile and return

In May 1225, Honorius charged Aldoin with excommunicating the monks of Шаблон:Ill and ordering a new election for the archimandritate. He was prevented from fulfilling this charge because of his second exile, although the first evidence of this is a list of seven exiled Sicilian bishops made by Honorius in April 1226. By 1227, however, Aldoin had been reconciled to Frederick and returned to Cefalù.Шаблон:Sfn

Aldoin spent the next few years in Cefalù. In July 1227, acting on behalf of the vacant archdiocese of Messina, he consecrated the church of the Holy Trinity in Geraci. In February 1231, at the request of Andrew of Cicala, he turned over the church of Saint Philip in Collesano to the monastery of Montevergine.Шаблон:Sfn

Third exile and death

The start date of Aldoin's third exile is uncertain. In 1248, Cardinal Raniero Capocci referred to his having been exiled for fifteen years, putting the start of his exile in 1233. Aldoin was certainly outside of the kingdom by July 1234, when he was with the papal curia in Rieti, where Frederick II was also. He was still with the curia in Spoleto in August. He was certainly exiled by April 1235, when Frederick, at a Hoftag in Fano, declared his presence in the kingdom intolerable on account of his disloyalty. This was a permanent ban.Шаблон:Sfn

The pope protested Aldoin's exile, but the bishops remained in exile the rest of his life. In 1239, Frederick exiled Aldoin's relatives. Aldoin spent his exile in Rome, where he consecrated churches on behalf of the pope.Шаблон:Sfn He took part in the consecrations of Santa Sabina (16 November 1238), Sant'Eusebio (19 March 1239) and Шаблон:Ill (28 March 1241). He retained a measure of control over his diocese. At his request, on 18 March 1244, Pope Innocent IV annulled Frederick's grant of a benefice of Cefalù.Шаблон:Sfn He also cooperated with Innocent in making canonical provisions with Cefalù's benefices.[8]

In 1248, Aldoin was murdered near the Lateran Basilica by a partisan of Frederick.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. This is the English form used in Шаблон:Harvnb. Шаблон:Harvnb, n. 68, cites the forms Aldoynus, Alduynus and Aldoinus from contemporary Latin documents, including Aldoin's own. The spelling Aldoynus predominates.
  2. This is implied by his name as it appears in a list of bishops from 1329: Aldoynus de Cephaludo, 'Aldoin of Cefalù'. See Шаблон:Harvnb, n. 68.
  3. Шаблон:Harvnb. According to Шаблон:Harvnb, in 1221 Frederick ordered Aldoin not to sell grain to Alamanno, but the bishop did so anyway.
  4. Шаблон:Harvnb, calls the charges "well founded". Шаблон:Harvnb, refers to his "admittedly bad character".
  5. Шаблон:Harvnb. Шаблон:Harvnb, calls it "a lame defence".
  6. According to Шаблон:Harvnb, a certain Thomas Ferentini of Palermo, who had married one of Aldoin's daughters, sought from the justiciar Ruggero de Amicis an exemption from the proscription of the bishop's relatives in 1239.
  7. Шаблон:Harvnb. For further incriminating evidence given at this trial, see Шаблон:Harvnb. Шаблон:Harvnb, notes that not all the evidence published in Шаблон:Harvnb was presented at trial.
  8. As on 7 May 1246: Шаблон:Harvnb.