Colaboración del clero navarro con los franceses durante la guerra de la Independencia

Abstract

The new revolutionary ideas imported from France started to take a hold in Navarre during the War of Independence. Only a small group of Navarrans, however, supported the King of Spain, José I, in his project. Although some churchmen did collaborate with the invaders, the clergy from the diocese of Pamplona rejected the French reforms. Most of the churchmen tried by the Pamplona Ecclesiastic Court were, therefore, priests who had been expelled from the cloister and found themselves in conditions of extreme financial need and few those who expressed reformist ideologies. Those churchmen tried were of little intellectual significance and did not belong to the local high clergy. The church authorities in the diocese brought charges quickly as soon as...