Concordat
An agreement made between a ruler and the Pope relative to the
collation of benefices. As the Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon
Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII.; the Concordat of 1516 between Francois
I. and Pope Leo X. to abolish the “pragmatic sanction;” and the
Germanic Concordat of 1448 between Frederick III. and Pope Nicholas V.
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