Étymologiquement, the word vicar comes from Latin vicarius meaning substitute .
In the organization of the Roman Empire starting from Dioclétien, the vicar is the person in charge of a Diocèse, together of Provinces. He is thus the superior of the Gouverneur S and the subordinate of the Préfet of the court.
At the time Carolingian, the vicar is an officer charged to return the Justice. Its jurisdiction is a Vicairie or Viguerie. With the Feudality, the vicars transform their function into a personal domination on the men, whom they return Héréditaire.
The title of imperial vicar was also used in the Saint Germanic Roman Empire. It nominated initially the person charged to manage the empire in the event of vacancy of the imperial seat. It also appointed a governor of province, but this role became symbolic system as from the 14th century. There remained however snuffed until the modern time because he brought to the small local sovereigns a political addition of legitimacy.
Vicariate of the province of upstream of Pavia, centered on the Piedmont and the Western Lombardy (1237).
In Italy of north and center, the title of imperial Vicar (delivered by the emperor or of pontifical Vicar delivered by the Pape was used at the end of the 13th century and all the 14th century to name an imperial or pontifical representative of authority on a territory. The attribution of the title is worth recognition of the legal and administrative functions on this territory for a number of years given with the help of the payment of an amount of money (the census).
The vicar with faculty to judge the causes in last authority, to exert the right of reprieve, to prescribe legal provisions supplanting the communal statutes, to impose new taxes, it also has the right of peace and guerre.
The imperial Vicar can add the imperial eagle to his armorial bearings.
In the evolution of the capacity in the commune Italian, the stage of vicariate is between the periods of the communal institutions (council of the consuls, Capitaine of the people, Podestat) and that of the hereditary seigneuriaux titles, obtained by the means of L `feudal institution (duke count, marquis), which will take its continuation of the end of the 14th century at the 15th century and by which the emperor and the pope will mark their authority on their territories.
The installation of pontifical Vicariate was especially the work of the cardinal Albornoz.
Although fallen in disuse, imperial Vicariate remained snuffed in Italy of north until the 19th century by the local lords to which it brought a certain legitimacy.
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