plenitude of power , also: plentitude of power

Only to St Peter had the plenitude of power thus been given.

Even the plenitude of power is the natural extension of previous arguments.

But it appears that the pope may have overruled the Council on this, using his plenitude of power.

The jurists vied with each other in their efforts to describe his plenitude of power as analogous, though superior, to that of the emperor.

The Lüneburg War of Succession resulted in a large plenitude of power going to the estates within the principality .

Innocent "postulated" Mauger, i.e. using his plenitude of power, he personally nominated him as bishop, dispensing him from his impediment.

In the decretal Proposuit, Innocent III proclaimed that the pope could, if circumstances demanded, dispense from canon law, de jure, with his plenitude of power.

In his On Reflection Bernard complained to the pope that, by granting such exemptions, 'you prove that you have the plenitude of power, but perchance not that of justice.

In return for their help, individual popes were prepared to accede to the political requests of the early Tudor kings, even at the cost of the loss of their plenitude of power.

It is an extreme form of the concept known as "plenitudo potestatis" or the plenitude of power; it declares that those who resist the Roman Pontiff are resisting God's ordination.

Benson, Robert Louis and Robert Charles Figueira, Plenitude of power: the doctrines and exercise of authority in the Middle Ages, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2006.

(50) Lay or ecclesiastical, all other offices have weight, number and measure, but, like God (Wisdom of Solomon n :2i), the papal office and its plenitude of power could not be weighed or measured.

Especially when acting against previous conciliar decisions or against generally approved law, a pope or a secular prince should never use his plenitude of power without the express consent of his cardinals or equivalent secular counsellors or magnates.

Skilled Staufen drafting (probably following Philip's own sentiments) accentuates the authority of the pope as vicar of Christ and his plenitude of power and petitions for absolution from the sentence of excommunication which Celestine III had imposed.

This goes back to FN I $6: 'Sur said that the gifts of Morgoth were withheld by the Gods, and that to obtain plenitude of power and undying life he [the king Angor] must be master of the West.'

On July 6, 1353 Pope Innocent VI declared the capitulation agreed by the conclave invalid as violating the rule restricting business during a conclave to the election of the new pope and as infringing the plenitude of power inherent in the papal office.