Constitutions égidiennes

The Constitutions égidiennes or more exactly “Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ” are a collection of laws, divided into six books, concerning the Papal States, promulgated in Fano at the time of a Parliament convened on April 29th 1357 by the cardinal Egidio Albornoz, legate and general vicar of the Papal States

These Constitutions, into force of the 1357 with 1816, in addition to which they recall the provisions already established by the pontiffs, clear up the relationship with the vassal ones and regulate the internal legal questions and with the foreign states.

They provide, moreover, a new territorial organization of the state, which is divided into five provinces: Campania and Maritime, Duchy of Spolète, Walk of Ancône, Patrimonio de San Pietro and Romagna. Each province is entrusted to a governor named by the pope, it is equipped with broad capacities in the political arenas, administrative, financial, legal and military but there remained subjected to the supreme authority of pontifical legate. The governor is in responsibility of name for his province a council of seven judges in charge of to fight against corruption, each judge having to come from a province other than that in which he exerts. In the same way, the governor names the chief of the armed forces of his province but that Ci should not belong to its family.

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