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    Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 742, fol. 
    272r 
    Italian ca. 1280, Gregory IX, 
    Decretales 
      | 
    
    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.   |