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  • 11 - The Emperor as Vogt, ca. 1000–1500

  • Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
  • Book:
    Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
    Published online:
    12 October 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022, pp 234-253

  • Summary

    This chapter starts the transition to the period after 1250 and argues that advocacy remained important into the fifteenth century (and later), in part because it was central to debates about imperial and papal authority. Beginning in the twelfth century, both popes and emperors insisted that the German ruler was the special advocate of the Roman Church, but the two sides differed on what this title meant. While the popes asserted that it was the emperor’s responsibility to defend the Church from its enemies and that the popes therefore had a role to play in selecting an able defender, the emperors claimed that as advocates they could exert wide-ranging influence over the Church and even call Church councils when necessary. This conflict not only highlights the inherent fluidity of the role of the advocate centuries after it first appeared but also helps to explain why so many people would continue to want to call themselves advocate during the half-millennium after 1250.