The earliest scholarly references to it were made by Ado of Vienne, Aeneas of Paris, and Hincmar of Reims, while St. Peter Damian and Humbert of Silva Candida were the among first to make official appeals to this document, primarily during their disputes with Michael Cerularius, who opposed their leader Leo IX.
The earliest scholarly references to it were made by Ado of Vienne, Aeneas of Paris, and Hincmar of Reims, while St. Peter Damian and Humbert of Silva Candida were the among first to make official appeals to this document, primarily during their disputes with Michael Cerularius, who opposed their leader Leo IX. Published in Gratian's Decretum, it was cited by Urban II in his attempts to claim Corsica. References to Judea and the province of Byzantia, a tale alleging its originator was a leper, and a failure to acknowledge Miltiades as the contemporary pope formed the basis of critiques of it by Nicholas of Cusa, and Lorenzo Valla, the latter of whom proved its falsity. FTP, Sylvester I was supposedly issued a large share of Roman lands according to what forged document that was attributed to a Christian emperor?
The earliest scholarly references to it were made by Ado of Vienne, Aeneas of Paris, and Hincmar of Reims, while St. Peter Damian and Humbert of Silva Candida were the among first to make official appeals to this document, primarily during their disputes with Michael Cerularius, who opposed their leader Leo IX.
{Donation of Constantine}