A New Interpretation on the Formation-process of the Pauline Order. Some Remarks on a Charter of Paul, Bishop of Veszprém Dated 1263

Holler, László (2010) A New Interpretation on the Formation-process of the Pauline Order. Some Remarks on a Charter of Paul, Bishop of Veszprém Dated 1263. In: VII. Symposium zur Geschichte des Paulinerorders, 2006. október 16. - 2006. október 18., Piliscsaba - Budapest (Hungary).

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Abstract

All the historians of the Pauline order considered this charter as the earliest surviving document from the initial phase of the order’s formation. It was issued in the year 1263 by Paul, bishop of Veszprém, and the text is preserved by Gregory Gyöngyösi’s Vitae fratrum eremitarum ordinis Sancti Pauli primi eremitae. The present paper discusses some questions in connection with this diploma. In the first part, the author locates two of the monasteries mentioned in the charter, both of wich were unidentified until recently. Namely, Insula Pilup Sanctae Helenae is identical with the surviving ruins of a 13th century small church in Révfülöp, Veszprém county, on the shore of Lake Balaton, and Idegsyt Beatae Elizabeth is located in the northern part of present-day settlement Hidegkút, in the Bakony forest, also in Veszprém county. In connection with the first identification, the origin of the hitherto unexplained expression of Gyöngyösi’s text, namely insula Pilis is explained. The second part of the study offers a new interpretation concerning the background and the purpose of the charter. According to this, Eusebius, who was the founder of the monastery of The Holy Cross in the Pilis Mountains and thus considered to be the founder of the Pauline order, tried to unite the eremites under his own leadership in the frame of the Augustine order and to become independent from the Veszprém diocese. He visited pontiff Urban IV in 1262, to promote his plans. Paul’s charter is a reaction to the pope’s letter and its aim was to hold back Eusebius’s ambition to become independent of the bishopric authority.

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