Od prokuratora w Kurii Rzymskiej do przeciwnika procesowego. Rola Pawła z Kłodawy w sporze o dziesięciny kościoła czernięcińskiego
From a Prosecutor in the Roman Curia to an Adversary. The Role of Paweł of Kłodawa in the Dispute Regarding the Tithes of the Czernięcin Church

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the history of the dispute regarding the tithes of the Czernięcin church in the Chełm Diocese in the 1420s. The narrative of the first part focuses on the figure of Paweł of Kłodawa, who played a significant role in those events. The article focuses predominantly on his attitude towards the benefices and prebendaries in the Kingdom of Poland as well as his efforts to secure a seat in the Poznań chapter house. The following part turns to the subject of the dispute, namely the church in Czernięcin and the villages belonging to the parish and the subject of allocating the tithes for the stipend for its rector. Then, the article moves on to the development of the dispute, which started with the trial in the Roman Curia in 1422 to end in 1424 with the verdict of an arbitration court led by the Bishop of Włocławek. This part describes also the attitude of Paweł of Kłodawa, who, in the first stage of the dispute was the prosecutor on behalf of the Bishop of Chełm just to later on seek the Czernięcin parish for himself and engage in litigation for its tithes with the aforementioned bishop. The last part introduces the context as well as the conclusions regarding the expansion of the network of parishes in the Chełm Diocese, initiated by Jan Biskupiec, as well as the plan for recovery of the tithes from the freshly reclaimed arable lands, which became a success under Zbigniew Oleśnicki from the Cracow Diocese. The example of the Czernięcin parish shows that Biskupiec had similar intentions, though his loss in the dispute with the rector from Czernięcin and the less developed network of churches made him reconsider. The article is accompanied by a reprint of the decree issued in the aforementioned trial on June 26th, 1422.

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