| Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs. |
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| Scholars who defended canonical ideals found themselves at variance with more politically aware pluralist prelates. |
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| The Pope has designated other prelates to stand in for him, and the Vatican says his only commitment is his Easter blessing. |
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| Finally, a Vatican-appointed committee of three U.S. prelates was commissioned to resolve the crisis. |
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| Only the king could appoint people to it and normally only princes of the blood, senior prelates and magnates were allowed to join. |
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| With all the church news in the media these days, it's important to know your prelates from your pontiffs. |
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| He praises the prelates who repeatedly call him in to question his apostolate of presence. |
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| He should have had a Tyburne tippet, a halpeny halter, and all such proud prelates. |
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| It is these mighty prelates who gave Salzburg its stately buildings and living legacy of some of the grandest music ever written. |
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| They implored prelates to observe vigilantly all sacerdotal activities in order to secure the subservience of priests and to rout out rebels and rogues. |
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| On 23 December 800 Charles convoked a council of prelates and nobles. |
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| This practice had become common because often the prelates and secular rulers were also participants in public life. |
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| But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? |
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| The Lords were far more powerful than the Commons because of the great influence of the great landowners and the prelates of the realm. |
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| When papal authority was great, the King could do little but admit a lack of jurisdiction over the prelates. |
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| The earliest known parliament met at Kilkea Castle near Castledermot, County Kildare on 18 June 1264, with only prelates and magnates attending. |
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| The bishops of the Episcopal Church are direct successors of the prelates consecrated to Scottish sees at the Restoration. |
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| A few prelates, known as college bishops, were consecrated without sees, to preserve the succession rather than to exercise a defined authority. |
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| William also oversaw a purge of prelates from the Church, most notably Stigand, who was deposed from Canterbury. |
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| Mar Thoma I to Mar Thoma VI were the prelates during this period. |
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| The assemblies of the French barons and prelates and the University of Paris decided that males who derive their right to inheritance through their mother should be excluded. |
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| Of prelates proud, a populous lave, And abbots boldly there were known. |
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| Bruce then rallied the Scottish prelates and nobles behind him and had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone less than five weeks after the killing in Dumfries. |
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| They sought to recreate the pattern of church life recorded in Scripture, without vestments and prelates, when church government was in the hands of presbyters. |
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| Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed. |
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