Pseudo-Isidore
9th-century Carolingian-era author and forger / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 9th-century forger. For the 12th-century chronicler, see Chronica Gothorum Pseudoisidoriana.
Pseudo-Isidore is the conventional name for the unknown Carolingian-era author (or authors) behind an extensive corpus of influential forgeries. Pseudo-Isidore's main object was to provide accused bishops with an array of legal protections amounting to de facto immunity from trial and conviction; to secure episcopal autonomy within the diocese; and to defend the integrity of church property. The forgeries accomplished this goal, in part, by aiming to expand the legal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome.[1]