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Ecclesiastics meaning
plural of ecclesiastic
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All other ecclesiastics were to contribute the twentieth part.
Constantine's death in 952 is recorded by the Irish annals, who enter it among ecclesiastics.
Henry I had required the leading barons, ecclesiastics and officials in Normandy and England, to take an oath to accept Matilda (also known as Empress Maud, Henry I's daughter) as his heir.
He was related to a number of other ecclesiastics of the period.
However, they came into conflict with German ecclesiastics who opposed their efforts to create a specifically Slavic liturgy.
It was also established that the most important tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics be summoned to the council by personal writs from the sovereign, and that all others be summoned to the council by general writs from the sheriffs of their counties.
Kentish ecclesiastics and laymen now looked for protection against Viking attacks to West Saxon rather than Mercian royal power.
Of the Church of Ireland's ecclesiastics, four (one archbishop and three bishops) were to sit at any one time, with the members rotating at the end of every parliamentary session (which normally lasted approximately one year).
On many different occasions, ecclesiastics who spoke with authority did their best to disabuse the people of their superstitious belief in witchcraft.
They won the favor of the leading ecclesiastics and nobility of Isfahan and had business transactions with royalty.
This meeting of the ecclesiastics with Roman customs with local bishops was summoned in 664 at Saint Hilda's double monastery of Streonshalh (Streanæshalch), later called Whitby Abbey.