Irisches Nationalkonzil; 1172
The second reforming synod of Cashel where almost all the native Irish lords and bishops submitted to King Henry II, who was also present. The synod enacted seven canons, arranged around the natural life cycle. The first dealt with the law of matrimony, fordding marriages within the bounds of consanguinity or affinity. The second with the instruction of children (apparently to be followed by their baptism), the third with the payment of tithes, and the fourth with clerical exemption from ‘coign and livery’, the practice by which Irish lords could demand that their subjects should billet their soldiers at their own expense. The fifth canon also exempted the clergy from having to help ransom lay relatives accused of murder. The sixth canon governed the making of a last will, and the seventh dealt with burial rites. The overall aim of these canons was to make the Irish church conform to the English one, which supposedly represented the general practice of the western church, but the nature and extent of this desired conformity is controversial. Most scholars have assumed that the Irish bishops agreed to the anglicization of their churches, a policy that they attribute to the Anglo-Norman kings of the time, but it has also been claimed that the provision was limited to liturgical matters only. The president of the council was Christian, bishop of Lismore, who was the papal legate, accompanied by the archbishops of Cashel, Dublin and Tuam. The archbishop of Armagh was absent, but the reason for that is disputed. According to Stephen McCormick, he opposed the Anglo-Norman takeover of the Irish church, but Giraldus Cambrensis, a near contemporary witness, says that it was because the archbishop was too infirm to travel, but that he later went to Dublin and submitted to king Henry II there.
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QQ: Giraldus Cambrensis, Expugnatio Hibernica, I 18, ed./trans. Scott/Martin, 68-71; Roger of Howden, Chronica, ed. Stubbs, II 29-32; Records of Convocation, ed. Bray, Vol. 16 (Irland 1101-1690), 91-95.
Lit.: McCormick, The Pope and Ireland; M. T. Flanagan, Henry II, the Council of Cashel and the Irish Bishops, in: Peritia 10 (1996) 184-211; Watt, The Church in Medieval Ireland, 28-40; M. Holland, art. ‘Cashel, Synod of II’, in: Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia, 66-67; D. Ó Corráin, The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion, Dublin 2022; DizCon I (1963) 268-269 (M. Bellardinelli) → 1171 (6. November).
Gerald L. Bray
Juni 2024
Empfohlene Zitierweise:
Bray, Gerald Lewis, “Cassiliense / Cashel; Irisches Nationalkonzil; 1172" in: Lexikon der Konzilien [Online-Version], Mai 2024; URL: http://www.konziliengeschichte.org/site/de/publikationen/lexikon/database/1960.html
