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4. 7. A case from the archive of the Apostolic Penitentiary:
Constance of Padilla
The case, discussed in detail in Chapter 4, illustrates the way in which
high-level ideas about consummation could a·ect real-life situations.
Penitenzieria Apostolica Register, vol. 48
Paper manuscript, 285ÿ215 mm. The last folio in the volume is numbered
989. Line numbers refer to the main body of the entry only.
Fo. 634R–V:
Head of the page: Anno octavo domini Alexandri pape vi
Above the entry: Octobr’ 1499
Halfway down the entry, left-hand margin: Rome iiii Non. Septembris
Halfway down the entry, right-hand margin: Segobien [ =Segubien(sis)]
Constantia de Padilla, mulier Segoviensis, exponit /1/ quod alias, postquam
ipsa matrimonium per verba legitima /2/ de presenti cum quodam viro
nullo iure sibi prohi bito /3/ coniuncta contraxerat, carnali copula minime
/4/ subsecuta, ipsam per vim et metum cuiusdam nobilis /5/ Bonadille
Marchisie Modie Conchensis diocesis, cui /6/ tunc ipsa exponens inserviebat
et forsan certarum /7/ aliarum personarum *compulsi monasterium
Sancti Petri /8/ de Las Ducuans ordinis *Conceptionis sub regula
Sancte Clare /9/ Toletan’ ingressa fuit et professionem pro moniales
/10/ dicti monasterii emitti solitam *emisit; et deinde dictus /11/ eius vir
matrimonium seu potius contubernium pro simi lia /12/ verba de presenti
cum quadam alia muliere nullo /13/ etiam sibi iure prohibita contraxit, illudque
carnali /14/ copula consumavit. Postmodum vero dicta exponens
/15/ dictum monasterium illicentiata exivit et ad civitatem /16/ Abulen-
I ignore all foliations apart from the modern stamped foliation.
At the head of fos. 633V and 634V: ‘Rome apud sanctum Petrum’.
But this may not relate to this particular case.
ipsam] ipsa recte
i.e. of Cuenca
*compulsi] compulsa recte. The scribe may have been unsure how to extend the
abbreviation: he had written ipsam above, as if for an accusative and infinitive construction,
but then goes on to write ingressa fuit below
*Conceptionis] ms. very unclear: looks like Conceptianum
This may be the same as the house listed as ‘Toledo, Sancta Maria Immaculada’
in the brief article by T. Morel in Diccionario de historia eclesiastica de Espa~na (5
vols. so far; 1972–87, the last being suppl. 1), iii (Madrid, 1973), 1684. According to
Morel, it was only long afterwards that the community joined the Benedictine Order.
He makes no mention of the Franciscan rule, but the ‘Immaculate’ (an allusion to
the Immaculate Conception) fits the description in our case.
pro] per recte
moniales] m’LES ms.
pro] per recte