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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...
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    Christian monarch. Pope Calixtus III reiterated Nicholas in the 1456 bull Inter caetera (not to be confused with Alexander VI's bull of the same title), renewed...
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    Inter caetera; it is commonly supposed that the first Inter caetera ("May 3") was drafted in April and received in Spain on May 17, the second Inter caetera...
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  • Pope Alexander VI issued the Bulls of Donation. The first of these, Inter caetera, drew a north-south line 100 leagues West of the Cape Verde Islands...
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    (Rodrigo Borgia), an Aragonese from Valencia by birth, decreed in the bull Inter caetera that all lands west of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west of any of...
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    Discovery, papal bulls such as Romanus Pontifex and, more importantly, inter caetera (1493), implicitly removed dominium from infidels and granted them to...
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    Dudum siquidem of 26 September 1493, supplemented the Inter caetera. The first bull, Inter caetera, dated 3 May, recognized Spain's claim to any discovered...
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    military conquest. Pope Alexander VI in a 4 May 1493 papal decree, Inter caetera, divided rights to lands in the Western Hemisphere between Spain and...
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    title to the recently discovered New World. Alexander, in the bull Inter caetera on 4 May 1493, divided the title between Spain and Portugal along a...
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  • of Spain. It was first used by Pope Alexander VI in the papal bull Inter caetera in 1493. The best-known example of this title is the Catholic Monarchs...
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