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1. The authorisation from the Holy See was based upon the Donation of Constantine which made every Christian island in the western Roman Empire the property of the Papacy.
2. The popes asserted the right to grant sovereignty over islands to different monarchs on the basis of the Donation of Constantine ( said to be a forgery ).
3. I have never read Gregorovius before, and thus did not know that part of the coronation ceremony of the popes was based on the Donation of Constantine.
4. An early triumph of textual criticism by Lorenzo Valla revealed the " Donation of Constantine " to be an early medieval forgery produced in the Curia.
5. The official status of this letter is acknowledged in the 1913 " Catholic Encyclopedia ", Volume 5, entry on Donation of Constantine, page 120:
6. Valla's case was so convincingly argued that it still stands today, and the illegitimacy of the " Donation of Constantine " is generally conceded.
7. Leo IX sent a letter to Michael C�rularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in 1054, that cited a large portion of the Donation of Constantine, believing it genuine.
8. This arrangement, which was based on no firmer foundation than the forged " Donation of Constantine ", was destined to give the papacy independence from both the Western Empires.
9. The film seems to be implying a literal interpretation of the Donation of Constantine, a document purportedly written in the 4th century, but in actuality an 8th-century forgery.
10. The " Henricianum ", as much as the forged " Donation of Constantine ", played a central role in papal territorial and sovereignty claims in the coming centuries.