| Keywords |
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| ID |
4612 |
| Text |
Gesta Danorum (1185 - 1216) Saxo Grammaticus |
| Quotation |
Nec contentus efficacissimum cause dictionis sue propugnatorem egisse, aduersarie partis odio penetralium sacrorum decus externo sacerdotio subiectum habere passus non est. Quamobrem Romam regressus tum se, tum etiam patriam ac domestica sacra Saxonica prelatione liberari petiuit, ne religionis ratione exteris admodum obsequi cogeretur aut eius disciplinam ab alinigenis petere necesse haberet. Nec difficilem curie consensum habuit. |
| Translation |
Not content with having been a most able champion in delivering his own claims, through his dislike of the opposing faction he [King Erik Ejegod of Denmark, 1095-1103] could not bear the idea that the dignity of this holy sanctuary should remain subordinate to an outside priesthood. Accordingly he made the journey back to Rome to entreat that he, his homeland, and its national worship should be freed from that Saxon prelacy, so that in the sphere of religion they should not submit to the necessity of being entirely subservient to foreigners or be bound to seek their doctrinal teaching from strangers. It was not hard for him to gain the assent of the Curia. (Translation: Fisher 2015, 879-81) |
| Quotation source |
xii.5.2 (II, pp. 878-880) |
| Temporal Coverage |
1098 - 1103 |
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| Comment |
This relates to the elevation of the see of Lund to an archbishopric for the Scandinavian church, which had previously been governed from Hamburg and Bremen. According to the Old Norse poem Eiríksdrápa 10-12, King Erik visited Rome and Bari, and it may have been at the Synod of Bari in 1098 at which this event took place. Alternatively he may have passed through Rome on his way to the First Crusade, in the course of which he died on Cyprus in 1103. |
