The dispute over the appointment to the position of the commendatory abbot on Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain) during the interregnum after the death of John III Sobieski in the light of Nuncio Giovanni Antonio Davia’s correspondence
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15633/fhc.656Keywords:
monastery of Holy Cross, Holy Cros Abbey, commendatory abbot, nuncio DaviaAbstract
One of the issues which for many years, beginning from the end of the 16th century, caused a lot of tension between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Poland, was the matter of the appointment for the position of commendatory abbots, where kings were eager to keep their privileges of nomination. Another factor exerting influence on the course of the conflict was the opinion of the nobility which, however, largely depended on the decision of the king. This dependence disappeared in periods of interregnum and hence it was interesting to study, on the example of disputes over the appointment to the dignity of abbot in the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross, what form that dispute took at a time when decisions were solely in the hands of the nobility. The course of the conflict over the appointment to the positions of abbots during the interregnum after the death of John III Sobieski indicates that the nobility retained their independence in the dispute, and the privileged positon of the king was taken over by ambitious magnates favouring their relatives and supporters while appointing to the dignity of the abbot. The key here was to convince regional diets to their arguments, as well as to win the favour of the senate, and later the convocation parliament (sejm), which, in order to fulfil their ambitions, did not hesitate to even call into question the relationship with Rome.
References
Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Rkps Segreteria di Stato, Polonia 118.
Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae. T. 37: Giovanni Antonio Davia (1696–1700). Vol. 1: (13 II 1696 – 28 XII 1696). Ed. A. Kęder. Cracoviae 2004.
Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae. T. 37: Giovanni Antonio Davia (1696–1700). Vol. 2: (23 VI 1696 – 18 V 1697). Ed. A. Kęder. Cracoviae 2010.
Mirecki Ch., Protestatio… Ac aliorum nonnulorum Monachorum facta contra electionem D. Wuyhowski, facta in actis Nuntiaturae die prima et decima Februarii 1690. Cracoviae [1690].
Volumina legum. Przedruk zbioru praw staraniem XX. Pijarów w Warszawie, od roku 1732 do roku 1782, wydanego. T. 1–2, 6. Petersburg 1859, 1860.
Jastrzębski J. OMI, Klasztor Świętego Krzyża na Łyścu. Kielce 1983.
Kanior M. OSB, Rola ojca Stanisława Krzysztofa Mireckiego, opata świętokrzyskiego w powstaniu Polskiej Kongregacji Benedyktyńskiej Świętego Krzyża. W: Klasztor na Świętym Krzyżu w polskiej kulturze narodowej. Pod red. ks. D. Olszewskiego, R. Gryza. Kielce 2000, s. 125–137.
Kęder W., Stolica Apostolska wobec Rzeczypospolitej w okresie konfederacji barskiej 1767–1773. Opole 2006.
Pastor L. von, Storia dei papi dalla fine del Medio Evo. Compilata col sussidio dell’archivio segreto pontificio e di molti altri archivi. Vol. 14: Storia dei papi nel periodo dell’Assolutismo dall’elezione di Innocenzo X sino alla morte di Innocenzo XII (1644–1700). Pars 2: Innocenzio XI, Alessandro VIII, Innocenzio XII (1676–1700). Przeł. P. Cenci. Roma 1932.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2014 Wojciech Kęder
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported License.
The author declares that he or she has full copyright to the work, and such copyright it is not limited to the extent applicable to this declaration, that the article is an original work and that it does not infringe any third-party rights.
The author agrees to a free-of-charge, non-exclusive and non-restricted use of the work by Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow i.e.:
- to record and duplicate: make copies of the work by means of printing, reprography, magnetic or digital storage;
- to circulate the original or the copies of the work (disseminate, lend or lease the original or copies thereof, publicly display, screen or make the work publicly available so that everyone is able to access it at the time and in place they wish to do so);
- to include the work in a compilation;
- the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow may grant sublicenses Creative Commons Acknowledgement of authorship-Non-commercial use-Without derivative work 3.0 Poland
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow makes the work available on the Platform Periodicals belonging to the University, according to the licence Creative Commons Acknowledgement of authorship-Non-commercial use-Without derivative work 3.0 Poland. Accordingly, the author authorises all interested parties to use the work on the following conditions:
- the author and the title of the work will be listed,
- the place of publication (name of the periodical and an Internet link to the originally published work),
- the work will be distributed in a non-commercial way,
- no derivative works will be created.
