Priestly Wives: The Role and Acceptance of Clerics' Concubines in the Parishes of Late Medieval Catalunya

Speculum 88 (1):166-214 (2013)
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Travelling through the foothills of the Pyrenees, the episcopal visitor Guerau Caluet arrived in the parish of Sant Martí de la Vajol on an autumn day in 1314. As in so many parishes visited on his journey, the visitor found that the rector Berenguer kept a concubine, and in this case, was also known to celebrate mass with his grandson and young son. This was not, however, the only blatant violation of canon law and synodal statutes. Berenguer testified that one day in May the sacrist Bernat, from the suffragan church of Agullana, had called on him to deliver the mass for the burial of a female parishioner. The rector recounted that while reciting the gospel for the funeral, he was in need of hosts and was unable to proceed with the mass “until Guillema, the concubine of the sacrist, sent the key to the sacristy where the hosts were.” As it happened, the priest Bernat was out of town and he had entrusted the sacristy keys not to his colleague Berenguer, but to his concubine

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