Lorenzo Valla proved the Donation of Constantine, by which Emperor Constantine supposedly granted great wealth and power to Pope Sylvester and his successors, to be a forgery in the fifteenth century.
Lorenzo Valla proved the Donation of Constantine, by which Emperor Constantine supposedly granted great wealth and power to Pope Sylvester and his successors, to be a forgery in the fifteenth century.
There is no suggestion that popes, with the possible exception of Stephen II, actually knew the document known as the Donation of Constantine to be a forgery until this was demonstrated to be the case in the fifteenth century.
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It was forged to establish the pope's power over the western
roman empire
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No, there were no popes at the time of Constantine. Constantine
moved the capital because of economic and logistical reasons.
The eighth-century forgery now known as the Donation of
Constantine claimed that Constantine moved his imperial capital to
the east, in order to grant the pope temporal power in the west.
However, nothing in this document was true.