Your Most Holy Majesty


His Christian Majesty, Rex Christianissimus or Roi Très-chrétien (in Latin and French respectively -Sa Majesté Très Chrétienne, abbreviated SMTC-), was the appellative or treatment protocol reserved for the King of France, used as a title of sovereignty, (His Apostolic Majesty - Hungary, His Catholic Majesty - Spain, Defender Fidei - England, His Fidelisima Majesty - Portugal, etc.). It was thereby legitimized spiritually. he did with other ceremonies related to his coronation - royal touch). The title was used in both diplomacy and common language. The particular relationship of the Franks with the papacy from the Merovingians and the Carolingians attributed to France the consideration of "the eldest daughter of the Church" (Fils aîné de l'Église.) Since Clovis I the Frankish kings were recognized by Rome as protectors of their interests, which they tried to emphasize with commissas denominations of their piety. The concrete treatment of "Christian King" was regularly used during the reign of Charles VI of France, although he had previously been employed with other kings, both from France and other kingdoms. In 1422, when inheriting the throne its son Carlos VII of France, the custom was established to consider such title as hereditary and exclusive of the kings of France. Pope Julius II, who allied between 1510 and 1513 with Henry VIII of England against Louis XII of France, came to consider transferring this title to the English monarch, and even elaborated a papal decree for that effect, nevertheless never arrived to be published. In the nineteenth century, with the division of the French monarchists into different tendencies, each one of the pretenders to the throne was distinguished by the protocolary title with which it appeared, being only the legitimists who claimed the one of "cristianísimo" (Très haut, très puissant et très excellent prince X, par la grâce de Dieu roi de France et de Navarre, roi très-chrétien), while the Orleanists and Bonapartists tried to legitimize themselves in God and in the Constitution (par la grâce de Dieu et la la Constitutione de l'État, roi des français, or by the Department of Dieu et les Constitutions de la République, Empereur des Francais). Notes

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