Donation of Constantine
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The Donation of Constantine is a forged Roman imperial decree in which the emperor Constantine I transfers authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the pope. It was devised probably between 750 and 775, the earlier date being the more probable. It is often said that the document could have been written around 752. Albert Hauck suggested in 1888 that assuming that the document was forged shortly before the Council of Quierzy, 754, would explain demands made by the Pope on that occasion,demands which had no basis in law or fact, commented F. Zinkeisen. The earliest secure ...
The Donation of Constantine is a forged Roman imperial decree in which the emperor Constantine I transfers authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the pope. It was devised probably between 750 and 775, the earlier date being the more probable. It is often said that the document could have been written around 752. Albert Hauck suggested in 1888 that assuming that the document was forged shortly before the Council of Quierzy, 754, would explain demands made by the Pope on that occasion,demands which had no basis in law or fact, commented F. Zinkeisen. The earliest secure allusion to the Donatio is in a letter in which Pope Hadrian I exhorts Charlemagne to follow Constantine's example and endow the Roman church. It was clearly a defense of papal interests, perhaps against the claims of either the Byzantine Empire, or those of Charlemagne himself, who soon assumed the former imperial dignity in the West and with it the title Emperor of the Romans. The Donationis included among the texts of the False Decretals of Isidore
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