What is "prebends"

Usage examples of "prebends".

Even if we were to learn that he was living, covered with prebends, in the imperial palace of his basileus, how to go and unmask him there, amid the entire Byzantine army?

While in the lowest grade of orders, not yet a deacon, various livings and prebends fell to his lot.

Now this is a genuine relic, and with an object like this we can return to our homes and receive honors and prebends, we have only to find the right bishop, as Baudolino did with Rainald for his three Magi.