The grant creates an overthrow and upheaval of ecclesiastical order.

"Pressure had been building up," he said, "for a proper public ceremony to be attended by all the senior members of our ecclesiastical orders."

The sinful action must be "seriously disruptive of ecclesiastical or moral order".

In those times the ecclesiastical and civil orders were closely related.

Heresy provided a threat to civil as well as ecclesiastical order, to political settlement and to peace.

With some success, the ecclesiastical order had tried to limit war at home and to project it abroad by means of the crusades.

Middle-class testaments sometimes set aside income or property for the education and maintenance of children by ecclesiastical orders until they reached their majority.

It had, indeed, become the mark of the whole ecclesiastical order.

Little is known of his education, but he had received minor ecclesiastical orders before 1141.

Only when the convent's holdings were sold off under French rule, which began in 1794, was the bond with the ecclesiastical order broken.