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Why did church courts have the right to try and punish members of the clergy?
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∙ 9y ago
Because it's a closed membership. These trials aren't criminal or civil, they are trails about the continuation in the church. It's like having a trial in the Boy Scouts, about your membership within. It's just within the church. You can't be burned at the stake, legally, if convicted.
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Why courts punish?
'cause you bad
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No, it is the duty of the courts to punish citizens for treason.
What was the Churches judicial role during the Middle Ages?
During the Early Middle Ages the criminal courts of many places were presided over by a set of judges, one of whom was a member of the clergy, supplied by the Church. Later, in the High Middle Ages, the judicial system was divided between the secular and the ecclesiastical. The ecclesiastical court was the domain of the Church, and was entirely operated by the Church. It was not merely a place for dealing with infractions against Church ordinances. Violations of civil law were also tried in the ecclesiastical courts, when the accused was a member of the clergy, because the clergy were beyond the authority of the state. The right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court was called Benefit of Clergy. Ecclesiastical courts were much more lenient that the secular. Their intent was to redeem, rather than to punish. For this reason, many people sought benefit of clergy, even though they had not been ordained. Technically, monks were clergy, but so might have been altar boys, or sacristans in the medieval view. And so, it was decided that the easiest test was not to see if the person in question wore clerical robes, but to find out if he was literate, by having him read a psalm. The Church also sometimes provided a way for a person who was accused of a crime to escape the law altogether. A church or monastery could provided sanctuary to anyone who sought it for whatever reason. While this was a useful way for an abused wife to escape her husband, it also provided for the escape of some criminals. After the death of King John of England, his French consort, Isabella of Angoulême, returned to France to live. Later, she was found to be trying to poison King Louis IX of France in revenge of a snub by his mother. She escaped to a convent, where she remained in sanctuary until she died of natural causes.
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Why was the Catholic Church powerful?
Throughout most of the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church had a monopoly for religion in western Europe. Few would challenge the Church for fear of eternal damnation. Those the Church wished to punish could be excommunicated, which meant the disgrace of being unable to be buried in the church cemetery, as well as being thought to suffer an eternity in hell. The church often also referred those it regarded as criminals to the secular authorities for trial and appropriate punishment, thus relieving the clergy of the stain of blood on their hands. Any secular ruler who failed to implement the wishes of the church in these matters would himself risk punishment by the Church. Thus, the Catholic Church was feared absolutely. When it was in the interests of the Church to do so, it could invite one ruler to invade another kingdom in order to eliminate a troublesome king, under the promise of the right to annexe territory. The Catholic Church eventually eliminated the troublesome Cathar non-Catholic sect in what is now southern France, by inviting the king of France to invade and annexe the Cathar territory. Thousand of western Christians heeded the Church's call for Crusades in the Holy Land, although the motivation was often for plunder, adventure and sport. On the other hand, the Catholic Church held to itself the sole right to try or punish its own clergy. After the end of the Roman Empire, even the most powerful kings were not able to move against members of the clergy who challenged them or committed crimes against the secular laws. The Church built up huge landholdings, worked by serfs or slaves, and its wealth was greater than any one kingdom.
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They labeled him as an outlaw.
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