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That all the faithful lying in sickness do in the presence of their confessor and neighbours make their will with due solemnity dividing in case they have wives and children excepting their debts and servants wages their moveable goods into three parts and bequeathing one for the children and another
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That all ecclesiastical lands and property connected with them be quite exempt from the exactions of all laymen. And especially that neither the petty kings nor counts nor any powerful men in Ireland nor their sons with their families do exact, as was usual, victuals and hospitality or entertainments
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Flanagan, however, points out that, as it stands in Giraldus' account, this sentence refers only to the liturgical practices of the English church. She also questions whether this part is a part of the decrees of the synod, stating that "it appears to be rather Gerald's own comment on what would be
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some historians have interpreted this as an actual decree of the synod, and have seen in it the origins of a policy of anglicisation of the Irish church pursued by the Angevin kings in Ireland. Thus, the synod of Cashel is often the starting point of any account of episcopal appointments in Ireland
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It was also decided that in Ireland, all matters relating to religion were to follow the observances of the English church. Some have interpreted this as referring to liturgical practices only; others see it as encompassing more, and therefore being much more fundamental, especially since it is
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That in case of a murder committed by laymen and of their compounding for it with their enemies clergymen their relatives are not to pay part of the fine (or erick) but that as they were not concerned in the perpetration of the murder so they are to be exempted from the payment of
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for the lawful wife and the third for the funeral obsequies. And if haply they have no lawful progeny, let the goods be divided into two parts between himself and his wife. And if his lawful wife be dead, let them be divided between himself and his children.
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in the ecclesiastical districts or presume to extort them by force and that the detestable food or contributions, which used to be required four times in the year from the farms belonging to churches by the neighbouring counts, shall not be claimed any more.
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That to those who die with a good confession due respect be paid by means of masses and wakes and a decent burial. Likewise that all divine matters be henceforth conducted agreeably to the practices of the holy Church according as observed by the English
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shortly after his arrival in Ireland in October 1171. The synod sought to regulate some affairs of the church in Ireland and to condemn some abuses, bringing the church more into alignment with the
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of Dublin. According to Martin Holland, arrangements for a synod to meet at Cashel soon afterwards were put in place through these contacts. Giraldus lists these three bishops, as well as
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among the clergy of Ireland attending the synod, "with their suffragans and fellow-bishops, together with the abbots, archdeacons, priors, and deans, and many other Irish prelates".
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after the coming of the Normans and the extension of the electoral procedure of the English church to the Irish church is presumed to derive in principle from this decree.
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That the faithful throughout Ireland do contract and observe lawful marriages rejecting those with their relations either by consanguinity or affinity.
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attempted by Irish churchmen. Martin Holland does not include this part in his overview of the enacted decrees, but adds:
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That all the faithful do pay the tithe of animals corn and other produce to the church of which they are parishioners.
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That infants be catechised before the door of the church and baptised in the holy font in the baptismal churches.
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Giraldus lists seven acts or "constitutions" of the synod, here given in the translation of William Gouan Todd:
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The synod is not mentioned in Irish sources, so historians have had to rely on other sources, in particular
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Flanagan, Marie Therese (1977). "Hiberno-Papal relations in the late twelfth century".
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Holland, Martin (2005). "Cashel, synod of II (1172)". In Seán Duffy (ed.).
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claimed that the Irish bishops swore fealty to Henry at around this time.
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Giraldus Cambrensis (2001). Thomas Forester and Thomas Wright (ed.).
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Index

1172
Cashel
Henry II of England
Roman Rite
Synod of Rathbreasail
Synod of Kells
Gregorian Reforms
Giraldus Cambrensis
Lismore
see
Gilla CrĂ­st Ua Connairche
papal legate
Dublin
archbishops
Donnchad Ua hUallacháin
Lawrence O'Toole
Cadla Ua Dubthaig
Archbishop of Tuam
Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata
Archbishop of Armagh
Primate of Ireland
Synod of Rathbreasail
Synod of Kells
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
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Expugnatio, XXXIV
The Conquest of Ireland, chapter XIV
Topographia hibernica, et Expugnatio hibernica
McCormick (1889), p. 31

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