Example sentences of "letter to the pope " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 2 | I have mentioned that it was the pope 's consecration of Thurstan as archbishop of York without submission to Canterbury in October 1119 , followed by the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to the pope stating the Canterbury case , which made stronger measures necessary . |
| 3 | In June 1308 Edward had accompanied a letter to the pope on Gaveston 's behalf with the grant of the castle of Blanquefort to the pope 's nephew ; later that year , at the pope 's request , the king released some prisoners , among whom was Walter Langton , bishop of Lichfield , who had offended the barons by his corruption and extortion at the exchequer and the king by earlier siding with Edward I against Gaveston . |
| 4 | He was with Henry when the news of Becket 's death arrived and wrote a sycophantic letter to the pope in Henry 's defence . |
| 5 | Otto 's letter to the pope ( asking Innocent to influence the sixteen princes in their decision ) , which is included in the RNI , is the only evidence we have of communications between Otto and the pope before 1200 . |
| 6 | The king 's letters to the pope during this period are all missing , but we have two from the pope to the king . |