Хронологический перечень грамот королевы Боны Сфорца православному духовенству Великого княжества Литовского (1523-1556 гг.)

ENIn the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the right of church patronage belonged to the laity - grand and appanage dukes and later to non-title landowners as well. The right of patronage could be transferred by the grand-ducal authority as grants enabling, inter alia, to appoint churchmen and dispose of the church property. The church investiture passed to Polish Queen Bona Sforza together with the rights to land. Her activity of appointing church men to the priest and bishopric positions was contrary to the canonic law and inconsistent with the public authority’s decrees, however it did not overstep the boundaries of the secular Church patronage system that had been created in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by the first half of the 16th century. Queen Bona advocated the Orthodox clergy’s interests in her possessions compelling the village constables and other officers to comply with the laws and well-established rules of common law in respect of the local priesthood. The published chronological list contains 77 documents. Formation of the complex of these sources is based on the signs of their origin (Queen Bona Sforza’s office and its divisions) and addressee (church corporations and individual representatives of the Orthodox church of Grand Duchy of Lithuania).The gramotas were discovered in the books of Queen Bona’s Metric, publications of the Imperial Archeographic Commission based on the Lithuanian Metric documents and regional court records of the Lithuanian state, as well as in the description of some archival collections. It should be considered that study of the system of types of the historical sources which governed the legal relationships between the secular and clerical authorities in Grand Duchy of Lithuania offers the prospects of further comparative historical research of this social and legal area in the Lithuanian and Muscovite states. Keywords: Queen Bona’s Metric, Lithuanian Metric, Western Russian Metropolitanate, Kiev Metropolitanate, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, diplomatics, Orthodox clergy, Bona Sforza. [From the publication]

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