| That year, however, Alexander returned to Rome, and felt himself strong enough to send the exiled primate a legatine commission. |
| An occasional example of the legatine Inquisition may also be met with. |
| For the next three hundred years the Church was almost wholly free from the direct control of legatine visits. |
| During the Middle Ages, some councils were legatine, called by a papal legate rather than the pope or bishop. |
| He received a legatine commission, and became sole justiciar. |
| Gilbert, now old and infirm, had resigned the see of Limerick, and with it his legatine commission. |
