Statute of Provisors curbs papal taxation
September 1351
The English parliament forbade the pope from naming foreign clergy to English benefices, calling it a drain of English wealth to Avignon. The statute was rarely enforced strictly but it set a precedent: the national church belonged to the king, not the pope, in a way the Reformation would inherit.
In context
Also in 1351 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.