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inflict upon them the punishment they deserved (animadversio
debita). l The Emperor decreed the imperial ban
them. 2
against
This imperial ban was, as Picker has pointed out, a
very severe penalty in Italy; for it comprised banish
ment, the confiscation of the property, and the destruction
of the houses of the condemned, public infamy,
the in
ability to hold public office, etc. 3 This is beyond ques
tion the penalty the King of Aragon
alluded to in his
p. 154). It is equivalent to the custodies mancipati of the Council of
Tours in 1163. As Alexander III presided over both councils (Tours and
Lateran) it is most probable they decreed the same penalty.
i"Si clericus est (hsereticus), vel cujuslibet religionis obumbratione fuscatus,
totius ecclesiastic! ordinis prerogativa nudetur, et sic omni officio et
beneficio spoliatus secularis relinquatur arbitrio potestatis animadversions
debita puniendus, nisi continue post deprehensionem erroris ad fidei catholicae
unitatem sponte recurrere et errorem suum ad arbitrium episcopi regionis
publice consenserit abjurare, et satisfactionem congruam exhibere. Laicus
autem nisi, prout dictum est, abjurata haeresi et satisfactione exhibita confestim
ad fidem confugeret orthodoxam, secularis judicis arbitrio relinquatur,
debitam ultionem" etc. Canon
recepturus pro qualitate facinoris 27, inserted
in the Decretals of Gregory IX, lib v, tit. vii, De hereticis, cap. ix.
2 "Papa eos excommunicavit, imperator vero tarn res quam personas
ipsorum imperiali banno subjecit," says the Continuatio Zwetlensis altera,
ad ann. 1184, in the Man. Germ. SS., vol. ix, p. 542. The council had used
the words animadversione puniendi. Animad-versio in the Roman law
signified the death penalty. Cf. The edict of Valerian in 258: In continent
animadvertentur. The imperial formula of condemnation seems to have
been: Gladio animadverti placet. Cf. Paul Allard, Dix lemons sur le martyre,
Paris, 1906, p. 269, n. i. But in the Middle Ages animadversio comprised
different penalties. We notice, for example, that Frederic Barbarossa, in
accordance with the mind of the church, decreed no greater punishment than
banishment.
sFicker, Die gesetzliche Einfuhrung der Todesstrafe fur Ketzerei, in the
Mittheilungen des Instituts }ur
(1880), pp. 187, 188, 194, 195-
oesterreichische Geschichtsjorschung, vol. i