Talk:Advowson

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This article doesn't entirely make clear why the advowson was desirable property. The entry on annates points out that a new incumbent to a parish had to pay money, first to a bishop or to the pope, and later, in England, to the king. This was a whole year's income, quite a bit of money. Was it ever the case that the patron, the holder of the advowson, was paid money by an incumbent? Was that why an advowson had value and was worth inheriting? One imagines there might be an informal deal - "I'll make you rector if you give me a backhander" - but was this ever formally acknowledged? Are any such deals known? Emrys2 (talk) 13:29, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree need for clarification on why valuable, will attempt to effect. Re annates, have no idea, over to you. Backhanders? Probably happened now and then, as exists the opportunity whenever a financial contract occurs, probably not worth speculating on in article, but the patron could extract real value by selecting the right person to be parish priest who would encourage parishioners (i.e. manorial tenants) to behave respectfully towards the rule of law (of the land & of the manorial court) and to respect the lord of the manor, i.e. the patron, so that his manor could run smoothly as a business enterprise.(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 13:32, 4 February 2012 (UTC))


 * Good point. The article summarises a very old ecclesiastical handbook; and in so doing conflates two processes. When parishes were first etablished in England - in the 11th/12 centuries - the landowner was seigneur of the church; and collected an introit fee and annual rent from the incumbent priest. Following the Gregorian Reform this practice was subsequently forbidden in Canon Law; and the legal right of advowson resulted.  Laymen could no longer claim to exercise cure of souls, or extract payment from parochial activity - especially tithes; but they could still henceforth present clergy to parochial appointments.  However, monasteries could, and did, claim the legal potential to extract tithes through the additional procedure of appropritation, or otherwise an annual pension from the rector; so laymen would donate advowsons to religious houses of their foundation, the religious houses would obtain dispensation to appropriate the tithe income, reserving a portion of that tithe income for a parochial vicar.  For a laymen, the resulting status as 'founder' of a religious house was of great value; as it commonly granted major status across a wide locality. TomHennell (talk) 14:38, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Britain/England
The introduction refers to English law but the 'Origin' section states 'Britain was split into dioceses'. Should this read 'England'?. Clivemacd (talk) 18:29, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Turns of presentation
Is turns of presentation a legal term? If not, might alternation be clearer in context than turns? —Tamfang (talk) 03:40, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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Excellent article. Zezen (talk) 20:58, 5 November 2019 (UTC)