Pseudo-Isidore is the pseudonym given to the scholar or group of scholars responsible for the Pseudo-Isidorean (False) Decretals, the most extensive and influential set of forgeries found in medieval Canon law. The works were probably produced c 842 in Metz. The author, a French cleric calling himself Isidore Mercator, created false documents purportedly by early church popes, demonstrating that supremacy of the papacy dated back to the church's oldest traditions. The author's motive was to protect Frankish bishops from both archbishops and kings, by asserting the importance of the Pope. The work aimed first of all at establishing the bishops' right of appeal to the pope from their metropolitans.
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