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embassy of obedience |
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A lavish and ostentatious special mission sent to Rome by a secular prince, including the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, on the occasion of the election of a new pope. Legationes obedientiae, which had become customary by at least the eleventh century, were not only gestures of homage and religious affiliation but also marks of some degree of political subservience to the pope. They reached the high-point of their importance probably at the end of the fifteenth century and had all but died out by the end of the eighteenth. The enthusiasm of the Habsburgs for these missions diminished as the power of their house increased. |
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