The extinction of benefices occurs when both the benefice and the church to which it is attached are utterly destroyed or cease completely to have any connexion with Catholic worship, as happened in the past when certain countries were overrun by infidels or heretics, and in more recent times on the occasion of acts of usurpation by the civil power. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The division of benefices, which is most frequently verified in connexion with parishes, is authorized when the incumbent is unable on account of increasing obligations to meet the requirements of his office, even with the help of such auxiliaries as the law allows. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The estates granted to vassals were known as benefices ❋ Unknown (1901)
Brutus and Cassius to plant their soldiery) consisted of such as I conceive were they that are called milites beneficiarii; in regard that the tenure of their lands was by way of benefices, that is, for life, and upon condition of duty or service in the war upon their own charge. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
Holding a position of trust and appreciation, Weerbeke was granted several benefices by the duke, including a pension of 40 ducats on the prepositura of S Lorenzo in Lodi 1473. ❋ Lu (2009)
Correspondence between Duke Ercole I and his ambassadors in Rome shows that Martini himself travelled to Rome in February 1487 and again in November 1488 to negotiate his claims to benefices. ❋ Lu (2009)
The election was strongly opposed by Philip the Good of Burgundy, and had Dufay remained in Savoy he would have been barred from visiting Cambrai and from collecting his benefices in Burgundian territory. ❋ Lu (2009)
Gombert was a cleric, perhaps a priest, and was awarded ecclesiastical benefices at Courtrai, Béthune, Lens and Metz. ❋ Lu (2009)
His name appears in a roll of benefices given to members of the chapel of Emperor Charles V in 1550; according to it he was a tenor, and already married. ❋ Lu (2009)
The earliest document to mention Crecquillon is a list dated December 1540 of court and chapel members in order of precedence for benefices within the imperial gift. ❋ Lu (2009)
During this second period at the Sforza court he was awarded benefices in the dioceses of Utrecht and Thérouanne. ❋ Lu (2009)
Dear son, I advise you to bestow the benefices of Holy Church which you have to give, upon good persons, of good and clean life, and that you bestow them with the high counsel of upright men. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
All benefices in Christendom were ordered taxed a twentieth of their income for three years for the relief of the Holy Land. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
He received from Pope Julius II a dispensation (4 January 1506) absolving him from the impediment created by his illegitimate birth to his holding an ecclesiastical benefice: in other words, he could now lawfully hold benefices that would provide the kind of ecclesiastical income that supported most university professors and scholars. ❋ Nauert, Charles (2008)
In the summer of 1516, Erasmus made a short trip to London, where he and his friend the expatriate Italian Andrea Ammonio drew up a petition to the apostolic chancery in Rome seeking a papal dispensation to guarantee his eligibility for his benefices. ❋ Nauert, Charles (2008)
Almoner of France, loaded him with benefices, and obtained for him the hat of a cardinal; and although he was too cautious to repose in the ambitious ❋ Unknown (2008)
Human rights, properly understood, are a universal moral patrimony; they are not benefices to be awarded by states for good behavior, nor are basic human rights a cultural imposition from the West on the rest. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In 1756, the year in which the final numbers of The Old Maid appeared, Frances Moore married the Revd John Brooke, a clergyman who held several benefices in the Norfolk area. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You Will [benefice] in time. [Benefice] not by your own understanding. [Allow] [the present], for the benefice of tomorrow shall show true. ❋ Godware (2012)
