Abstract
Este artigo pretende estudar o relacionamento entre dois dos primeiros bispos do Porto e os reis que serviram, num período durante o qual o reino de Portugal estava ainda em processo de afirmação como entidade política perene e viável. Partindo do interessante caso de D. Hugo, para situarmos o início dos problemas e as questões a que iremos regressar quando abordarmos o caso de D. Martinho Rodrigues, concentrar-nos-emos de seguida no estudo do relacionamento entre o poder real e esse bispo portuense D. Martinho Rodrigues, que serviu a três reis e a três Papas, numa época de grande convulsão para o reino em particular e para a Península Ibérica em geral, durante a qual o Papado também reafirmava os limites do seu poder. Esta interessante dinâmica, gerada na tensão entre a concomitante afirmação de diversos poderes em contexto de construção dos respetivos limites físicos e âmbitos jurisdicionais, permite uma visão particularmente elucidativa das questões que, afetando sobretudo o bispado do Porto, se jogavam também a outras escalas. Observaremos sobretudo estes dois exemplos, nas querelas que tiveram com os reis, e nas formas como as resolveram, mas também no universo fundamental do relacionamento de cada um deles com o cabido do Porto, nas respetivas ligações às elites locais e à nobreza do Entre-Douro e Minho, e, em menor escala, aos meios peninsulares onde a cultura jurídica florescia, assim como na relação com a realeza leonesa e com o Papado.
This article focuses mainly on the study of the lives of two of the first bishops of the See of Oporto, D. Hugo and D. Martinho Rodrigues, and the relationship they kept with the Kings they served, in a period during which the Kingdom of Portugal was still in the process of formation and politically very unsettled. We will start with the interesting case of D. Hugo, which will enable us to watch closely how he handled a multiple loyalty, and a political changing situation, and proceed by analysing the life of Martinho Rodrigues, a bishop who served three Kings and three Popes, and whose episcopate was very affected by the conflicts with all three Kings, with the local elites, the neighbouring bishops, and even Popes. Such interesting dynamics configurate a tension which resulted and promoted the affirmation of the several powers involved in the city of Oporto, as a microcosm: bishops, Kings, religious orders, chapter and local elites, as well as nobility. The lives of both these prelates illustrate the changes in the ways in which central power and bishops handle quarrels and their resolution, from violence to pact, form local resolution to the appeal to Rome.
This article focuses mainly on the study of the lives of two of the first bishops of the See of Oporto, D. Hugo and D. Martinho Rodrigues, and the relationship they kept with the Kings they served, in a period during which the Kingdom of Portugal was still in the process of formation and politically very unsettled. We will start with the interesting case of D. Hugo, which will enable us to watch closely how he handled a multiple loyalty, and a political changing situation, and proceed by analysing the life of Martinho Rodrigues, a bishop who served three Kings and three Popes, and whose episcopate was very affected by the conflicts with all three Kings, with the local elites, the neighbouring bishops, and even Popes. Such interesting dynamics configurate a tension which resulted and promoted the affirmation of the several powers involved in the city of Oporto, as a microcosm: bishops, Kings, religious orders, chapter and local elites, as well as nobility. The lives of both these prelates illustrate the changes in the ways in which central power and bishops handle quarrels and their resolution, from violence to pact, form local resolution to the appeal to Rome.
Translated title of the contribution | Prelacy and Royal Power: Between conflict and concord in the cases of Hugo and Martinho Rodrigues, Bishops of Oporto |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Title of host publication | Um Poder entre Poderes Nos 900 Anos da Restauração da Diocese do Porto e da Construção do Cabido Portucalense |
Editors | Luís Carlos Amaral |
Place of Publication | Porto |
Publisher | Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
Pages | 275-304 |
Number of pages | 29 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-972-8361-72-3 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |