Miserabiles personae

Miserabiles personae
Lit. 'pitiable or wretched persons'. Term used by the Church for the unprotected, such as widows and orphans, who had a special claim to charity and aid. In theory, this was the class of person the chivalric knight was sworn to protect.

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