Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 742, fol.
272r
Italian ca. 1280, Gregory IX,
Decretales
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A canon
from the Council of Poitiers in 1079 banning clergy from bearing arms became
part of the normative law of the church by the late twelfth century.
Council of Poitiers 1079
1 Comp. 3.1.2 (X 3.1.2):
Clerici
arma portantes et usurarii
excommunicentur.
(Clerics
who bear arms or who are usurers may be excommunicated).
Lawrence G. Duggan, Armsbearing
and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity (Boydell
& Brewer, 2013) 99-100, 136.
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