A conservator (from Latin: conservator, lit. 'a keeper, preserver, defender'),[1] was a judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons – as universities, Catholic religious orders, chapters, the poor – from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process. Conservators were appointed as early as the 13th century;[2] the title was given to officers appointed by the Synod of Würzburg in 1287 to protect the privileges of certain religious persons.[3]
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The dictionary definition of conservator at Wiktionary
- ^ Fanning 1908.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 977.
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