Plural of datary; officials or priests who worked in the Dataria office of the Roman Catholic Church.
Plural form of 'datary,' from Medieval Latin roots. Refers to the ecclesiastical officials who staffed the papal dating and authentication office.
Dataries were essentially the church's record-keepers and authenticators—they held significant political power because they controlled which papal decisions were officially valid.
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