[753] Concil. Compostellan. ann. 1056 can. 3. An allusion, however, to those who left the church and married being allowed to return on abandoning their wives, would seem to show that some supervision was exercised. The council of Coyanza, in 1050, had forbidden the residence of strange women, except mother, aunt, or step-mother, but says nothing as to marriage.—Con. Coyacens. ann. 1050 c. iii. (Aguirre IV. 405, 407).
[754] Concil. Gerundens. ann. 1068 can. 7, 8 (Labbei et Coleti T. XII.). The council of Toulouse, in 1056 (see ante, p. 255), which ordered the separation of priests from their wives, undertook to include Spain in its legislation, presumably meaning the eastern portion of the Peninsula which was subject to the Archbishops of Narbonne.
[755] Gregor. VII. Regist. Lib. IV. Epist. 28.
[756] Concil. Gerundens. ann. 1078 can. 1, 3, 4, 5 (Labbei et Coleti T. XII.).
[757] Mariana, loc. cit.
[758] Paschal. PP. II. Epist. 57.
[759] Hist. Compostellan. Lib. I. cap. 20, 58, 81; Lib. II. cap. 3; Lib. III. cap. 46.—Even the moderate reforms introduced met with violent opposition—“nobis omnibus, veluti bruta animalia, nulla adhuc jugali asperitate depressa, reluctantibus”—and only a portion seem to have submitted “quosdam sibi acquiescentes doctrina et operatione conspicuos divina clementia reddidit.”
[760] Didaci Decreta, No. 21 (Hist. Compostell. Lib. I. cap. 96).
[761] Ibid. Lib. I. cap. 100.—“Si qui ex eorum progenie clerici esse et sæculariter continere vellent.”
[762] Hist. Compostellan. Lib. II. cap. 87.