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Inter caetera ('Among other [works]') was a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on the 4 May 1493, which granted to the Catholic Monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile all lands to the "west and south" of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde islands.
The Pope issued edicts dated 3 and 4 May 1493.The third superseded the first two. A final edict, Dudum siquidem of 26 September 1493, supplemented the Inter caetera. [1]The first bull, Inter caetera, dated 3 May, recognized Spain's claim to any discovered lands not already held by a Christian prince, and protected Portugal's previous rights.
1493 (May 4) Inter caetera ("Among the other") On the division of the "undiscovered world" between Spain and Portugal, beginning with the lands visited by Columbus. 1493 (June 25) Piis Fidelium: Grants Spain vicarial power to appoint missionaries to the Indies. 1493 (September 26) Dudum siquidem: Territorial grants supplemental to Inter caetera
On 13 March 1456, [18] Callixtus issued the papal bull Inter caetera (not to be confused with Inter caetera of 1493). This bull reaffirmed the earlier bulls Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex , which recognized Portugal's rights to territories it had discovered along the West African coast, and the reduction of the infidels and non-Christians ...
The bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI: Eximiae devotionis (3 May 1493), Inter caetera (4 May 1493) and Dudum siquidem (23 September 1493), granted rights to Spain with respect to the newly discovered lands in the Americas similar to those Pope Nicholas V had previously conferred on Portugal with the bulls Romanus Pontifex and Dum Diversas.
[1] [2] Alexander's bull, proclaimed on 4 May 1493, [3] was titled Inter caetera and addressed to Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, and later Catholic monarchs of Spain. [4] England and France opposed the papal donation. [5]
At the time, the pope was then deep in the midst of arbitrating between the claims of the crowns of Portugal and Spain over Columbus's discoveries. The papal bull Inter caetera, delivering the pope's initial opinion, was issued on May 3, 1493, albeit there remained disputed details to work out (a second and third bull followed soon after). [41]
Dudum siquidem (Latin for "A short while ago") was a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on 26 September 1493, one of the Bulls of Donation addressed to the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon which supplemented the bull Inter caetera and purported to grant to them "all islands and mainlands whatsoever, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered ...