By a unique Papal dispensation, Absalon was allowed to simultaneously maintain his post as Bishop of Roskilde.

Henry VII acquired a Papal dispensation allowing Prince Henry to marry Arthur's widow ; however, Henry VII delayed the marriage.

A Papal dispensation by Clement V in November 1305 permitted her immediate marriage by proxy, despite the fact that she was probably only 10 years old.

As the couple were second cousins, a Papal dispensation was required ; and it was sent from Pope John XXII at Avignon in September 1327.

After a Papal dispensation was procured, Henry and Elizabeth married on 18 January 1486.

Papal dispensation was granted on 18 August 1450 because the spouses were too closely related.

He was ignored, however, a dispensation was secured after Burgundian bribes secured Papal acquiescence, and a complex agreement was drawn up between England and Burgundy, covering mutual defence, trade, currency exchange, fishing rights and freedom of travel, all based on the marriage between the Duke and Margaret.

At the same time, Henry had Parliament authorise Thomas Cromwell to " visit " all the monasteries, including those like the Cistercians previously exempted by Papal dispensation, to purify them in their religious life, and to instruct them in their duty to obey the King and reject Papal authority.

In 1554 Cardinal Pole, the Papal Legate, negotiated a papal dispensation allowing the new owners to retain the former monastic lands, and in return Parliament enacted the heresy laws in January 1555.

His second wife, whom he married on 5 February 1345, by Papal dispensation, was a young widow Eleanor of Lancaster, the second youngest daughter and sixth child of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth, and thus his first wife

One of these marriage proposals resulted in her betrothal on 21 March 1501 to Charles IV, Duke of Alençon, which had required a Papal dispensation.

Being related within the forbidden degrees, a dispensation was granted by John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, the Papal Legate, 3 November 1564.

Pinong was granted a Papal dispensation to be ordained below the canonical age of 24.

According to Vicente Bicchi ( Papal Nuncio at the time ), Domenico Scarlatti arrived in Lisbon on 29 November 1719.

" Indeed, when a Papal legate ( Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal Bishop of Albano ) arrived in Constantinople in 1213 and began to imprison Orthodox clergy and to close churches on the orders of Pope Innocent III, Henry countermanded the orders on the request of the city's Greek clergy.

The Papal fleet under Admiral Marco Grimani ( Patriarch of Aquileia ) and the Venetian fleet under Vincenzo Capello arrived first.

After moving across the plain, they arrived in front their opponents, who broke formation and fled without even trying to resist ; the Normans killed many of them and moved further towards the Papal field-camp.

On 23 June 1858, in Bologna, in the Papal States, police arrived at the home of a Jewish couple, Salomone (" Momolo ") and Marianna Padovani Mortara, to take one of their eight children, six-year-old Edgardo, and transport him to Rome to be raised as a ward of the state.

However, one year later, and again instigated by the intrigues of Władysław's wife Agnes, the newly Papal legate Guy arrived to the country in connection with the refusal to restore the former High Duke, and declared the ban over Poland.

Although the ferocity of the Norman attack took the Turks by surprise, they were unable to dislodge the Turks until a force led by Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, the Papal legate, arrived in mid-afternoon, perhaps with Raymond in the van, moving around the battle through concealing hills and across the river, outflanking the archers on the left and surprising the Turks from the rear.

In 1856 the telegraph arrived in Velletri and in 1866, Pius IX opened the Roma-Velletri railway, the third rail of the Papal States and one of the first in Italy.

After the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain, some 9, 000 impoverished Iberian Jews arrived at the borders of the Papal States.

This chronology notwithstanding, certain artistic, technological or literary developments associated with the Italian Renaissance arrived in France earlier ( for example, by way of the Burgundy court or the Papal court in Avignon ); however, the Black Death of the fourteenth century and the Hundred Years ' War kept France economically and politically weak until the late fifteenth century and this prevented the full use of these influences.

The Papal envoys arrived at Cairo in June 1327 with a gift and a letter from the Pope who appealed to Al-Nasir to treat the Christians well and to protect the Christian holy places and to stop his attacks against Sis.

On 21 July the Maltese reinforcement of 4 battleships, 5 galleys and 2 small craft arrived, and on 31 July 4 Papal, 5 Spanish, 3 Tuscan and 2 Genoan galleys and 4 hired Papal battleships arrived.

In early 1600, Elsheimer arrived in Rome and quickly made friends with contacts of Rottenhammer, notably Giovanni Faber, a Papal doctor, botanist and collector originally from Bamberg.

John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, travelled to Italy to recruit veterans of the Papal War, and met with Keogh and his comrades. Thus in March 1862 Keogh resigned his commission in the Company of Saint Patrick, and with his senior officer – 30-year-old Daniel J. Keily of Waterford – returned briefly to Ireland, then boarded the steamer " Kangaroo " bound from Liverpool to New York, where the vessel arrived April 2.

Alum was imported into England mainly from the Middle East, and, from the late 15th century onwards, the Papal States for hundreds of years.

* Papal profession of faith ( late 7th century )

At the time of Pope Sixtus IV in the late 15th century, the Papal Chapel comprised about 200 people, including clerics, officials of the Vatican and distinguished laity.

Papal letters as late as November were still petitioning Charles for action.

In November of late 1798 Pezza took part in the disastrous attempt of the Neapolitan Army to oust the French from the Papal States.

Since the late eighteenth century, the High Renaissance has been taken to refer to a short ( c. 30-year ) period of exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, principally Rome, capital of the Papal States, under Pope Julius II.

Johannes Ciconia ( – between 10 June and 13 July 1412 ) was a composer and music theorist of the late Middle Ages, born in Liège but who worked most of his adult life in Italy, particularly in the service of the Papal Chapels and at the cathedral of Padua.

Robinson's physical descriptions of Glennon, his massive Diocesan building program, his arriving late for two Papal conclaves in Rome, while eventually making it in time for a third, his popular description as " Number One " and many other details of the Glennon character exactly correspond with O ' Connell's career and personality.

In the late 1940s, the Congregation petitioned the Holy See for acceptance as a one of Papal Right, which would place them directly under the oversight of the Holy See, independent in their internal workings from the local bishop and thus more easily able to cross lines of diocesan authority.

After the New Order of Mass was introduced in 1970, the late John Cardinal Heenan obtained in November 1971 a Papal Indult, under which any Bishop in England and Wales could permit celebration of the Old Mass for the benefit of a group of the faithful and, in October 1984, Pope John Paul II granted an Indult to every Bishop in the world allowing the celebration of the Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962.

Thus, in late March, Nemours, together with an Italian contingent under Alfonso I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara, marched east from Bologna and laid siege to the city of Ravenna, which was defended by Papal troops.

Through the Papal bull Manifestis Probatum, issued on May 23, 1179, he also recognized the right of Afonso I to proclaim himself King of Portugal – an important step in the process of Portugal becoming a recognized independent Kingdom.

He met with King Ludwig III on 29 May, and later with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, who replied positively to the Papal initiative.

Pacelli presided as Papal Legate over the International Eucharistic Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 10 – 14 October 1934, and in Budapest from 25 – 30 May 1938.

The most important of his doctrinal decisions was his condemnation of five disputed Jansenist propositions, in his Papal Bull, Cum occasione issued, 31 May 1653.

* 1176: On May 29, Frederick Barbarossa's forces were defeated in the Battle of Legnano by the Lombard League which resulted in the emperor's acknowledgement of the pope's sovereignty over the Papal States and Alexander acknowledging the emperor's overlordship of the imperial Church.

* May 17 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

The quarrel was complicated by the Papal Schism, but the king was just beginning to make some headway when he died at his castle of Landskrone near Oppenheim on 18 May 1410 and was buried at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg.

With the Papal Brief Non Est Equidem of May 25, 1754, Pope Benedict XIV declared Our Lady of Guadalupe patron of what was then called New Spain, corresponding to Spanish Central and Northern America, and approved liturgical texts for the Holy Mass and the Breviary in her honor.

His Apostolic Exhortations include Ubi Primum ( 8 September 1914 ), Allorché fummo chiamati ( 28 July 1915 ) and Dès le début ( 1 August 1917 ) The Papal bulls of Benedict XV include Incruentum Altaris ( 10 August 1915 ), Providentissima Mater ( 27 May 1917 ) Sedis huius ( 14 May 1919 ), and Divina disponente ( 16 May 1920 ).

Pedro de Luna, a Papal legate to the realms of Castile, Aragon, Portugal and Navarre, pronounced the betrothal in Elvas on 14 May, and the wedding ceremony took place on 17 May at the Cathedral of Badajoz.

Affairs came to a crisis in the year 1809, when Napoleon issued at Vienna the decree of May 17, ordering the annexation of the Papal States to the French empire.

Later, the 1481 Papal Bull Aeterni regis granted all lands south of the Canary Islands to the Portuguese Empire, while in May 1493 the Aragonese-born Pope Alexander VI decreed in the Bull Inter caetera that all lands west of a meridian only 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to the Spanish Empire while new lands discovered east of that line would belong to Portugal.

In May 1791, France recalled its ambassador to the Vatican and the Papal Nuncio was recalled from Paris.

* Josef Meisenzahl ( b. 19 October 1876 ; d. 15 October 1952 ), Papal House Prelate, Canon, conferred 5 May 1930: Meisenzahl ’ s furthering of the town ’ s interests by building an episcopal boys ’ seminary was recognized.

Because he turned 80 on 8 May 2002, Cardinal Gantin was not eligible to vote in the 2005 Papal Election.

The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 was a military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, then part of the Papal States.

Pope Pius IX, who had left Castel Gandolfo in May 1869 was the last pope to put foot in the Papal Palace until 1929.

Born in Piedmont and named bishop of Modena in May 1222, William was sent as Papal legate to resolve differences that resulted from the outcome of the Livonian Crusade in Livonia in 1225.

St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary was established through the Papal Bull of Pope Pius IX on 27 May 1865.

Following the Papal Bull of Pope Pius IX, dated 27 May 1865, the Dominican Bishop Mariano Cuartero, O. P., the first Bishop of Jaro, laid the foundation of this seminary in 1869, in honor of St. Vincent Ferrer.

The third earl of Ulster married, before 16 November 1327 ( by a Papal Dispensation dated 1 May 1327 ), Maud, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster by his spouse Maud Chaworth.