A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

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Title: A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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The Council of Mentz, held, A. D. 1069.

SIGEFROY or SIGEFRID Arch-bishop of Mentz succeeded Luitbold, A. D. 1059. and * 1.1 govern'd that Church till 1084. He held a Council in 1069. at Mentz, in which the Emperor Henry IV. made a Proposal to divorce his Wife, by reason that he could not have any Issue of her Body. Sigefrid inclin'd to his Opinion; but Peter Damien the Pope's Legat being arriv'd, and having prevented the Divorce, the Arch-bishop wrote to Alexander II. that he had prohibited the Emperor from divorcing his Wife, under pain of Excommunica∣tion; but that this Prince having alledg'd, that he could not have carnal Copulation with her, and the Empress having own'd her impotency, he found himself oblig'd to consult the Holy See, about so extraordinary a Case; that he was unwilling to pass Judgment on the Affair in a Council, which was call'd upon that occasion, till he had receiv'd his Answer; and that he entreated him to send his Legats to examine and decide the matter in Germany.

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The Coun∣cil of Mentz in 1069.

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